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Who should I send my tank and fenders to for pinstriping, No. Calif.

rimcanyon
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Who should I send my tank and fenders to for pinstriping, No. Calif.

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I'm sending my fenders and tank out to be powder coated this week. Looking for recommendations for someone to do the pinstriping when I get them back, hopefully close by so I can drop them off. I live in Salinas, CA but anywhere in the SF Bay Area would work.

-Dave

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Twocams
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Scottie'S Work Shop. Says

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Scottie'S Work Shop. Says they do pin striping. Santa Clara, Calif. Are you sure you want to powder coat the tank. Seems like it would be harder to pin strip? Yes they work on Vintage BMW.

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rimcanyon
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why is powder coat harder to

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why is powder coat harder to pinstripe?

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Twocams
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Im the wrong guy to ask that

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Im the wrong guy to ask that question. I have only had a few things powder coated. My center stand,side stand and 4 foot pegs on my R69.
But it is thick and shinny and not sure how well they would take to being painted?

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Please Don't

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Please don't powder coat your tins. If you get a chip (and you will) it is really hard to touch up without showing, but more importantly, if you (or a subsequent owner) ever want to strip the tins, it will be a nightmare. I had a badly-powder coated frame and forks sand-blast stripped and it took a professional almost 6 hours - which is insane for a 2-hour job. Not to mention if you get a less-than-acceptable job, then you are in a pickle.

Single-stage paint that you can wet sand and hand rub, and touch up if needed, is much more preferred.

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What he said, ditto I have a

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What he said, ditto
I have a lot of powder coated bolt-on accessories and parts done on various bikes. But not the tin.
Don't do it, the first time there os a chip or scratch:
#1) impossible to paint match. There is no such thing as spot powdercoating. Its the whole thing or nothing.
#2) if you do not take care of a scratch or chip right away rusting begins "under" th powder coat. Where you can't see it.

Ural started to powedercoat entire bikes in 2013. By 2016 they went back to paint. Lesson learned.
Yeah, it's durable... until it ain't.
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The problem with having it

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The problem with having it painted is the difficulty of controlling the end result. My powder coater on the other hand has done many parts for me as part of a Porsche 356 restoration, and his work has been 100% to my satisfaction. If I tell him not to bead blast machined surfaces, he doesn't. He will mask according to instructions and can handle complicated parts (e.g. assemblies of parts, like an axle tube with the side flange loose on the tube, side flange painted only on one side, lots of machined surfaces at the wheel end). Color and gloss is exactly what I ask for and it is repeatable. My results from painters has never been consistent or predictable. I've had paint jobs come back with overspray, powdered surfaces, bondo dust in the paint, insufficient surface prep, poor color match to existing paint, paint that ages differently than the original, you name it.

Regarding touchup of minor chips on powder coated parts, you can get some of the powder used for the original, dissolve it in a solvent and paint it on using a brush. That's not a lot different from repairing painted surfaces.

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Depends on what your goal is.

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You have good reasons for sticking with powder coat, but in my opinion the finish you get will never duplicate the original Glasurit finish on these bikes. The problem, of course, is that it can be insanely expensive to get it done "right."
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My next move would be to find

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My next move would be to find someone that will pin strip on powder coating. Before I got the coating done. There maybe only 10 people that pin strip? And 2 that would consider.


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The previous owner of my bike

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The previous owner of my bike said it was painted Glasurit black. What is that?

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