Status: busy

But not with building bikes. I've done a couple of repairs in the past month, and am really getting a lot faster overall, but have to figure out the whole painting thing. I've been looking into new sprayguns and the like, and will probably settle on something in the $100-$150 price range rather than go with another cheapo. I'm going to need all the help I can get now that I sprung for some serious paint. I got a quart of Deltron clearcoat and hopefully will find a way to put it to good use. I was looking for something a little bit harder than the $40 per quart Omni stuff that I'd been using, since bikes tend to get beat up a fair bit, I can use all of the toughness available. The Omni gives a pretty good finish, but it's a little bit soft, particularly when compared with the high quality factory finishes that I find on the bikes that I've been repairing. This makes it easy to buff out my mistakes (a decided plus) but sometimes the different levels of hardness show transition lines a bit too much between the original and the repair.