Doug Fattic wrote, in part:
I would hope that the dominate opinions of this elite list would allow that where a 2nd color transitions is a matter of personal taste rather than a best/poor way of doing it.
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I have nothing but respect for Doug, and I agree with him that this business of how to paint around lugs is a matter of personal taste. I never suggested otherwise.
I have seen a few frames painted the way I described, with the paint stopping at the tube/lug joint, and when a top-quality hand-built frame is finished this way, the lug appears to grow around the tube in a very beautiful and organic way. It turns the frame into sculpture. Painting the other way..the frame just looks like a frame. No magic there, for me, anyway.
Not many painters do it the way I like, because it's quite difficult to do right, and, as Doug says, the frame itself has to be brazed flawlessly. The best frames are brazed this way, though, in my experience. I think that Waterford on ebay would have looked far better painted the way I described..
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