Old 01-06-18, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Wildwood
.....paint to present chrome panels on tubes?


Specifically, the headtube and downtube.
Bike is all original and not bad paint. Just a few paint scrapes.
I'll get closer pics of the areas in question on the Bottecchia, in a day.


Main concerns with removing paint are:
A sharp definition line on the edge of the paint.
Finish on the newly exposed chrome. (again, 72/73 Bottecchia GdItalia)
Will I like it's 'uniqueness'?




I'm leaning in one direction on this, but still asking for opinions.
Especially visual inspirations.


I don't have a chrome bike - and this is not the one to go full chrome, IMHO.
Is going chrome panels a poor substitute???
(sorta like a Speedo at the chrome nudist colony).
Polishing metal to a finish that makes it worth to chrome it is labour intensive. Which means no one does it on parts of a frame that is not going to be visiable. If stripping a painted part of a chrome frame you will to 99% get to a unpolished part of it.
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