On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM, cyclotourist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Then I must have gotten one super fantastic deal with my Saluki. I got >> the color of my choice for a fifty dollar upcharge. As it happens, the >> color was the standard color for one of the 650B mixtes, Fairway Green >> Metallic, but it was a custom color as far as I was concerned. It was a >> very nice job, too -- not that I went over it with a scanning electron >> microscope looking for flaws -- and I'm extremely happy with it. It's >> held up very well, too. > > I think all the Salukis were painted here in the States? That's why they > were offered with three colors to choose from and a minimal up-charge for > custom. > > I have been wrong before.
IIRC, many of the Salukis arrived unpainted, so the painting charge would be minimal compared to stripping and repainting a frame (which i believe is what the $200 upcharge covers). As someone else mentioned, a Joe Bell paint job starts at $350, so while $200 is certainly nothing to sneeze at, i don't know if it'll buy a 10/10 paint job. The wait for JB paint is also not trivial - 6 months, last i heard. I know custom builders who invested in a paint booth just so they can get frames to customers faster when a 7/10 paint job will do just fine. -- Bill Connell St. Paul, MN --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
