Author Topic: $150 paint job?????? (Read 6014 times)

dustyc · « **Reply #25 on:** September 21, 2007, 12:16:44 PM »

I'm betting you'll get a better paint job from the inmates than from a cheap Maaco/Earl Sheib type place. Even with doing your own prep, they can blame their mistakes on you since they didn't do the prep. -Which I understand since they know(hopefully) what primer is compatible with the paint they use and you are only taking your best guess.

Still, I would think that cheap price would just be a single stage paint and wouldn't turn out as good as base coat/clear coat.

I like to hear about actual rehabilitation in the jails rather than inmates watching cable television, lifting weights and doing drugs. I had a former prison guard on a radio show I was part of several years back and he had some stories to tell -as well as a fifth of whiskey he was pulling on in one hand and a bag of cocaine with a straw in it in his other hand. I saw him years later in charge of inmates at our city dump and thought to myself "I bet I know how he's making some extra money."

And now I see how you have the time to look through all the Craigslists in so many cities. -You work for the government.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you do.

Let us see some pics when the parts are painted.

Hope · « **Reply #26 on:** September 28, 2007, 11:41:59 AM »

Alright guys,

Just got off the phone with the auto shop manager. I have decided to go with a gold tank with a white pearl tear drop on Cassandra. Decals are coming off. (75 CB550K on my avatar). I want the gold color to match my truck, Nissan Goldstone.

Here's my truck:

Jasper gets an orange tank. I will have some airbrushing done by someone else after the inmates are done with the paint. The inmates are going to finish up the bondo work for the cafe tank. (76 550F ongoing Cafe build)

I am dropping the tanks and side covers off Monday. Hope to post pics soon!

Roach Carver · « **Reply #27 on:** September 28, 2007, 08:27:31 PM »

hope, is that a katrina bike?

Hope · « **Reply #28 on:** September 29, 2007, 02:19:08 PM »

no. No Katrina bikes here

Hope · « **Reply #29 on:** October 05, 2007, 01:36:43 PM »

I wonder how these will look on my gold and pearl white tank:

Uncle Ernie · « **Reply #30 on:** October 05, 2007, 07:47:17 PM »

Just got a '52 R67/2 front fender back. Had to get rid of some rust, primer and one stage- $300
Pinstripes- $25 (but I gave him $40)
The pinstripe guy is one of the best I've ever seen. Need to take a picture tomorrow.

Hope · « **Reply #31 on:** November 09, 2007, 10:24:21 AM »

check out the paint job the inmates did (more pics to come):

These pics are crappy because they were taken in my office with a camera phone. When I get home, I plan to get good pics with a real camera. I just picked up the 2 tanks, 4 side covers, and helmet. Everything was painted for what I spent in materials: $300

Serious.

Now, stop drooling at my crappy pics!

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #32 on:** November 09, 2007, 11:29:31 AM »

Looks great, even for cam-phone pics.

ColinMc · « **Reply #33 on:** November 09, 2007, 11:46:17 AM »

If you are going to go that far and do all the prepwork yourself, just pick up a cheap Gravity feed gun and do the rest yourself. You don't need a giant compressor to paint just a tank and some side covers.

DarkRider · « **Reply #34 on:** November 09, 2007, 12:33:04 PM »

even with just the cell phone pics we can see the paint turned out great...looks good hope

Hope · « **Reply #35 on:** November 10, 2007, 09:00:49 AM »

Updated with pics. Paid $300 in materials. Got the labor free. 2 tanks, 4 side covers, 1 helmet:

(you might note that the tank is the exact color of my truck... but the tank was shot with pearl, so it is more metallic than my truck.) Didn't get pics of the side covers yet because they have the little holes for the decals. I am not sure if I am going to put the 550 decals back on my K. The F cafe will definitely NOT get 550 decals:

Hey, I'm glad I decided not to go with MAACO!!!!

Hope · « **Reply #36 on:** November 11, 2007, 01:39:37 PM »

pics with the tank and side covers on Cassandra

ekim98 · « **Reply #37 on:** November 11, 2007, 02:54:55 PM »

Cassandra looks good with the new colors. Nice job.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #38 on:** November 11, 2007, 06:39:04 PM »

I agree, very nice.

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #39 on:** November 11, 2007, 06:52:33 PM »

Looking good girl, your lucky you got year round riding.

Sam.

edbikerii · « **Reply #40 on:** November 19, 2007, 02:57:55 PM »

Holy cow! Cassandra looks great! That's a really tasteful paint job.

edbikerii · « **Reply #41 on:** November 19, 2007, 03:02:18 PM »

I think you should start a new thread or rename this one so that people will know that it is Cassandra we are talking about. I saw the "$150 paint job?

" title, and just assumed it was another crappy rattle can job (like mine), so I didn't bother to look. I'm glad I stumbled on it.

Hope · « **Reply #42 on:** March 31, 2008, 06:52:42 AM »

Quote from: The great "Lumbee" on September 21, 2007, 09:30:33 AM

...dang hope...i'm down in baton rouge...you need HOOK A BROTHA UP!!! Got a gas tank now that needs paint, and a seat covered...

The turnaround for seats are SLOW..... I actually got the tank done at DCI (men's prison in Jackson) and the seat was done at LCIW (women's prison in St. Gabriel)... So, that's why the turnaround time is different.

74cb750 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 31, 2008, 04:27:43 PM »

Looks good.
The $150. paint job I had done came out looking like a large orange. Yoou know, like orange peel. UGH!
peace

Terry in Australia · « **Reply #44 on:** March 31, 2008, 05:46:13 PM »

Don't write off rattle cans guys, the biggest problem I've seen from other bike owners is that they don't know how to paint, so assume that the paint they use is no good.

My recent F2 respray was done with rattle cans, and apart from the decals, owes me the princely sum of 64 bucks, and I've got enough left over to paint my K0 tank. (I think..............)

I taught myself how to paint by reading a few books from the local library, but nowadays there is so much info on the internet, you can probably just google it. Like has been said before, preparation is (almost) everything, but knowing what you're doing, and how the paint you're applying works, is even more important. Cheers, Terry.

my78k · « **Reply #45 on:** March 31, 2008, 05:54:32 PM »

Looks good Terry! Nice work.

Dennis

Terry in Australia · « **Reply #46 on:** March 31, 2008, 07:15:18 PM »

No worries Dennis, thanks for that, here's a link to the whole "start to finish" rattle can paint job thread. Cheers, Terry.

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=32283.0

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