> Re: Matching GIOS Paint
Don wrote:
> If the cyclart web site is to be believed, then matching GIOS paint
> might be one of the hardest tasks in the vintage bicycle painting
> field.
I completely agree. I've usually just matched the color by eye but it is certainly very elusive and time consuming to match.
I've also sprayed out a test panel using touch-up from Colorado Cyclist and tried two different paint match scanners at the paint jobbers I go to and neither one could come up with a match or tease the color apart. BTW, the color is quite opaque so the primer color is irrelevant.
Brian Myers of Fresh Frames was once kind enough to send me his mix formula for Gios blue (in PPG if I remember right) which yielded a very close match. Unfortunately I seem to have lost the formula when I moved and I don't know if I'll ever be able to speak with him again now that Fresh Frames is closed and he has moved on. Maybe someone on this list knows Brian............
Hugh Enox
La Honda