[CR]re: painting a second color on a frame..

(Example: Production Builders)

From: <BobHoveyGa@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:36:02 EST
Subject: [CR]re: painting a second color on a frame..
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Doug wrote:
> I paint it this way because it is the look I like the best.  I would hope that the dominate opinions of this elite list would allow that where a 2nd color transitions is a matter of personal taste rather than a best/poor way of doing it.

Doug;

You're a great painter and I love talking up your work to almost everyone I meet, so my opinion is not in anyway intended to be a criticism of your incredible painting skills. But I'm with Charles and Jamie... for me it' s not just a matter of personal taste, I think there is a logical reason supported by principles of good design. A bike is composed of parts... the lug is a discreet part and the head tube is a discreet part. Logically it makes mor e sense and visually it just looks better to have each part painted its own color.

The final effect is volumetric... i.e., it emphasizes the complete form of e ach structure. On the other hand, painting just the surface of the lug shifts the emphasis to the skin-like structure of the coat of paint itself. To me , this is a distraction from the overall form of the bike.

I've seen house painters wrestle with the same problem when painting clapboard houses... where the clapboards run into the vertical trim at the c orners of the house and door/window moldings, common practice is to paint up the edge because stopping at the zigzag line formed by the ends of the clapboards is far more time consuming. But some painters will go to the extra trouble, leavi ng the sides of moldings the same color as their surfaces... and it always look s nicer.

Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA