KH 20 custom paint job, and Louise's rim

Unicycles and Equipment
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To finish off my painting, I painted my KH20 metallic red.

Pictures on picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/corbin.dunn/UnicyclesAndParts/photo#5230752420109875410

Some cool ones:

I left a silver stripe down the side; unfortunately, the paint bled slightly into it, and in the end, I think I would have preferred it to be solid red, but oh well! I painted the spokes, leaving a star pattern in the center – in the end, I also didn’t really like the star pattern, but I didn’t want to take the wheel apart just to paint the hub red, and leaving it blue wasn’t an option :slight_smile:

I also painted Louise’s new rim:

I rode the 20 at lunch today, and unfortunately, the clear coat isn’t too strong, and it has already suffered some nicks and scratches.

-corbin

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I love that red! I like how you did your rim, wirh only red on the outside. The spokes look nice too.
Get a red cover, and some red pedals and that would be a nice looking uni.

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Wow, that looks awesome! A darker red always looks nicer with unis. I don’t think the stripe looks bad either.

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That’s the same red you used for your squid handle, right?

It looks pretty sweet!

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That is one nice paint job.

Iv’e had a go at spray painting unicycle frames before but I didn’t use enoguh clear lacquer to protect against scratching.

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Hey man, no – it isn’t; that was spray paint, when this is actual (expensive!) high quality automotive paint. It is a similar color, but not the same :slight_smile:

corbin

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I used a high quality automotive clear coat; I may have not let it dry enough (about 1.5 full days), and it has already chipped in a few spots where i dropped it down (hard) while practicing coasting at lunch today.

My spray paint job for my coker frame chipped off really easily, even with cheap spray paint clear coat. I was hoping the auto clear coat would be better, and I think it is…but we’ll see how it holds up on my trials and muni.
corbin

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Ah, okay. My bad.:o

I guess it might be more worth your while to powder coat it if that’s happening.

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That’s true, powder coating is stronger! it is a baked on finish. I don’t think you can get quite the same look as a spray color; ie – the metallic luminance isn’t possible with powder coating, and you’d still have to clear coat it to get it to look shiny.

corbin

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i like your paint job on your 24in better but this still looks bad ass.:smiley:

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You most certainly can get metallic colors with powder coating.

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well arent you a special agent sam

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i’ll second, third, and fourth that it’s a beautiful frame. saw it yesterday!

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Cool! I didn’t realize that. Powder coating isn’t something I can do, unfortunately. I have a friend who is going to get a small setup, but it may not even be large enough for uni frames.

How expensive was it to get that done? Your frame done too?

-corbin

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I really like that.

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Your uni looks like a firetruck :slight_smile:
I love it!

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I do my powdercoating myself. I just got an old electric oven with a bottom and top oven, this is nice because I can be heating up one part while another is baking.

Its pretty fun to do, however there is alot of trial an error and I still have iffy results.

I think I have spent about $120.00 or so and now have everthing I need and about 10 colors. Without a few usefull machine shop type tools powder coating would prove very dificult. Anyway, its quite the fun saturday activity.

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That’s cool! Where do you get your paint? Where did you learn how to do it?

I’m totally interested in doing it myself too. The metallic paint I bought was $70 for a pint! Totally pricey. Add on the base mixer, clear coat, and hardner, and I spent $140 in paint alone!

I already had my spray gun for doing woodshop stuff, but that thing was like $500 bucks, so I have a huge investment in spray equipment. But, I’d love to powder coat too.

corbin