For a fillet brazed frame why not a little homage to Jack Taylor or a pre-war Schwinn Superior. Silver with box striping in two contrasting primary colors.
Joe
At 12:51 PM 12/12/00 -0500, Steve Freides wrote:
>I'm looking for inspiration. My custom Bilenky, fillet-brazed and filed
>to a mirror finish, is about to be treated to a paint job by our own
>Brian Bayliss, but I have no clue about color. I'd love to see photos
>of painted fillet-brazed bikes to inspire me. Unfortunately, most of
>what I've seen on the web is either very loud, very ugly, or very
>difficult to make out in an online photo. The bike is a
>century/sport-tourer/club riding kind of bike, made of steel (Columbus
>Nemo for the most part, although with a carbon fork - it's my
>weight-weenie bike <shy smile>), longish chainstays, good old-fashioned
>Campy 1010 horizontal dropouts. It's also completely logo- and
>sticker-less, at my request. Even the Chris King headset was special
>ordered in its no-logo version.
>
>I'm a lover of classic bikes and tend to like blues, greens, anything in
>between (aqua, celeste, even), and reds, as well as black and white - no
>yellows, browns, or purples or oranges for me.
>
>Brian says he's very able to take the germ of an idea and run with it (a
>fact about which I have no doubt), but I confess I don't have even a
>beginning.
>
>Steve "visually ignorant" Freides