I know this may seem like herecy to many on the CR, but I'll live life on the edge dangerously, and for those who don't agree I'll agree to be stoned by you'll at Cirque outside the Battleground Inn at sunrise.
I've sent a few jpgs of my 2000 Hetchins Magnum OPus Millenium over to Spectrum Powdercoating to get a ball park estimate to powdercoat the frame in two colour, maybe three, with luglining. They came back to me this morning with an extremely fair estimate of $700. After looking over the galleries of pictures, & talking at length with Mark a few days ago, one of the two owners, and asking many in depth question about their process, they seem fully capable of doing the work. I may give them an older, less ornate Claude Butler I have to do for me to see how their final work looks.
Knowing from prior experience, that powder coating can be very heavy
===== Peter Naiman 4420 North Ardmore Avenue Shorewood, WI 53211