Advice from painters
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Advice from painters
Hi All
I'm looking for a Redhot Sunglow SG, but my wife wants to to consider vivid Black and add some custom painting. I want to keep the bike plane, but would it be hard to add a single color strip. I want the paint to be bullet proof the Harley factory paint, so I was wondering about the gloss over the paint. Does that require a lot of work?
Thanks ahead for any suggestions.
By the way I was in shock when my wife suggested Fast Vivid Black.
Beary
I'm looking for a Redhot Sunglow SG, but my wife wants to to consider vivid Black and add some custom painting. I want to keep the bike plane, but would it be hard to add a single color strip. I want the paint to be bullet proof the Harley factory paint, so I was wondering about the gloss over the paint. Does that require a lot of work?
Thanks ahead for any suggestions.
By the way I was in shock when my wife suggested Fast Vivid Black.
Beary
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When you have a bagger with many different panels/body parts it can be difficult to put on a single stripe and still hit every part. I was in the same are of thinking and wanted a Cobra style twin stripe down the center of the fenders, tank, fairing and trunk. Then the bags, what to do with the bags??? I tried adding a stripe along the same line as the rest and they looked out of place, like I tacked them on(Using painters blue pasking tape you get at any paint store )So, I either had stripes on all the parts but the bags, so they then looked left out of the paint scheme, or I had extra stripes on the bag lids that didn't look right.
Same goes if you run the stripe along the side, but you miss the front fender and then comes the problem of having that single stripe looking like a flowing line from one part to the next.
I might suggest buying any and all customizing mads you can find, both bike and car and truck. Look for the simple or minimalist paint jobs and gather info in your head. Then head to a custom painter and ask their painter for some ideas too.
Same goes if you run the stripe along the side, but you miss the front fender and then comes the problem of having that single stripe looking like a flowing line from one part to the next.
I might suggest buying any and all customizing mads you can find, both bike and car and truck. Look for the simple or minimalist paint jobs and gather info in your head. Then head to a custom painter and ask their painter for some ideas too.
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Every panel you paint has to be clear coated, then color sanded and buffed so the more panels you paint, the more finishing work, and of course, higher cost. I'm in the process of doing an Ultra for a customer in a Candy red over champagne, separated by gold leaf and pinstripes. I'll post pics when it's done. Meanwhile, here's one I did on a black SG last year.
Steve
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Every panel you paint has to be clear coated, then color sanded and buffed so the more panels you paint, the more finishing work, and of course, higher cost. I'm in the process of doing an Ultra for a customer in a Candy red over champagne, separated by gold leaf and pinstripes. I'll post pics when it's done. Meanwhile, here's one I did on a black SG last year.
Steve
Steve
agree 100%
black is a lot of work to keep up, it's always dusty.
buy the red bike, you'll be wishing you did after a couple years of trying to keep that black one looking new..... been there, done that...
Last edited by kansasroadking; Jan 24, 2009 at 02:15 AM.
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I have the Candy Red Sunglow on a 2008 Ultra.
Take it to a pinstripper. He'll make the stripe flow throughout the bike
Mine did an outstanding job of adding an Eagle to the fairing, and fancy stripping all over the bike. Looks sharp...and Really stands out in a low key way.
here are a couple pics..
Take it to a pinstripper. He'll make the stripe flow throughout the bike
Mine did an outstanding job of adding an Eagle to the fairing, and fancy stripping all over the bike. Looks sharp...and Really stands out in a low key way.
here are a couple pics..
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I agree with Lucky13 on the Red, My 09 Ultra in the Redhot Sunglo will change colors in the sunlight. Where I park it at work I can see the sun pass over it during the day and the colors are incredible as the day moves on.
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