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Oink oink.
Midschoolfool:
Round one. As I suspected they are bad. Like, really really bad.
Tops of the legs are extremely rusty.
They had also been spray bombed really really badly. In this pic here if you look at the right leg (which is on the left as it is the back) I am confident the grey/clear over raw was the original finish.
Either way when I bust out the belt sander tomorrow it is all coming off. What I did do was find a pic of a very clean fork, this one.
Hmm....
This is for the little brown bloke from Thailand who was dumb enough to think that the printouts of my Root Down decals he was trying to sell for 55 quid were custom to my frame and not stock. So he got banned.
Mikku:
--- Quote from: Midschoolfool on April 28, 2023, 01:16 PM ---I'll shout him out as it goes. God he has some nice gear.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/stevet1_80
And yes, I had a serious argument with myself over that Trail Boss. Not only is is rare, and gorgeous, but its cheap AF too. If I wasn't so busy and so short of space right now (that is being fixed as I type this) he would have been sending me that too !
Just gutted I missed the Standard stem he had a couple of weeks ago.
--- End quote ---
Those Odyssey forks are well-priced too! :coolsmiley:
Midschoolfool:
I got an offer through for the Trail Boss last night. 195. Man that was hard to turn down. Just don't have the space yet :(
Going to do the final touches to the decal today and then send to my mate for printing. Just waiting for my pain meds to kick in then I will get on with the fork.
Midschoolfool:
Stage two complete.
Midschoolfool:
Well I don't know why the images are not being downsized all of a sudden. Well, not here at least.
So after another round of paint stripper in the welds, lots of hand sanding and getting the rust off the welds I put down some paint. And it looked awful. I did everything right too, so it was strange how bad the peel was.
I was pretty pissed off about it tbh. Figured I would have to wet sand it, but then no idea how to get a finish coat down without it doing the same. Came back up here for 30 mins more and a miracle is happening :LolLolLolLol:
The insides of the legs are a bit dry, but that's fine as I intended to wet sand it all out and give it another coat. I finished the decal graphics too. I had to put in every single one of those letters one at a time by hand as the font wasn't available. I got one that was close (the message to the thai thief) but it wasn't correct. As such they were all in a bit out of space etc. The Quality part was too big too. That is all fixed now, so it's off to my mate to print.
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