>Maybe It's just me but I have a serious problem believing this bike was
>repainted by Hetchins or any other Bicycle painter. One of the big NO-NOs
>in frame painting is painting the cantilever bosses like has been done on
>this bike.
Different painters take different attitudes to painting canti bosses, I think. Some will paint them unless the customer/shop masks them, others will mask them unless you ask them not to for some reason. I didn't specify either way when I sent a touring frame down to CycleArt many years ago, and it came back with the bosses powder coated like the rest of the frame -- as it happened, that's what I would have specified, since I was going to be using drum brakes on the bike when I built it up.
When I later converted it back to cantis, I just used a canti boss hand-mill to clean the powder coat off the bosses. The powder had kept them rust-free through years of winter riding with no brakes installed on them.
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