I rather like the paint on my old Viscount (fillet-brazed) - silver-grey with cobalt blue seat tube panel and head tube. The blue on the head tube continues onto the top and down tubes, much like lug points, with gold edging. Nice! Of course you'll want to do it a bit more neatly than the Viscount :-)
Karl Frantz Sterling, Massachusetts -------------------------------------------------- Karl.Frantz@juno.com
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:59:17 -0800 Joseph Bender-Zanoni
<jfbender@umich.edu> writes:
> For a fillet brazed frame why not a little homage to Jack Taylor or a
> pre-war Schwinn Superior. Silver with box striping in two
> contrasting
> primary colors.
>
> Joe
>
> At 12:51 PM 12/12/00 -0500, Steve Freides wrote:
> >I'm looking for inspiration. My custom Bilenky, fillet-brazed and
> filed
> >to a mirror finish, is about to be treated to a paint job by our
> own
> >Brian Bayliss, but I have no clue about color. I'd love to see
> photos
> >of painted fillet-brazed bikes to inspire me. Unfortunately, most
> of
> >what I've seen on the web is either very loud, very ugly, or very
> >difficult to make out in an online photo. The bike is a
> >century/sport-tourer/club riding kind of bike, made of steel
> (Columbus
> >Nemo for the most part, although with a carbon fork - it's my
> >weight-weenie bike <shy smile>), longish chainstays, good
> old-fashioned
> >Campy 1010 horizontal dropouts. It's also completely logo- and
> >sticker-less, at my request. Even the Chris King headset was
> special
> >ordered in its no-logo version.
> >
> >I'm a lover of classic bikes and tend to like blues, greens,
> anything in
> >between (aqua, celeste, even), and reds, as well as black and white
> - no
> >yellows, browns, or purples or oranges for me.
> >
> >Brian says he's very able to take the germ of an idea and run with
> it (a
> >fact about which I have no doubt), but I confess I don't have even
> a
> >beginning.
> >
> >Steve "visually ignorant" Freides
> >
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