I am pretty certain, in British cycling jargon:
- "Enamel" refers to opaque paint finishes (in other words not metallic, not "candy apple, or translucent, etc., but straight up pure colors.)
- "Luster refers to metallics.
- "Flamboyant" refers to transluscent senmi transparent color coats over a silver or gold metallic base coat, what we refer often to as "candy colors"
Seems like the UK folk also call a particular type finish "polychromatic"; I forget what that refers to...
(I think we talked at length about this earlier on the CR list, I am just too lazy to go look in the archives!) Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA http://www.classicrendezvous.com -----Original Message----- From: johnb@oxford.net To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [CR]1949 Holdsworth Paint Finishes
At 01:09 PM 12/3/06 -0800, Kurt Sperry wrote:
>I think of enamelling as the fusing of a vitreous layer to a steel substrate
>by heat, not merely spraying on epoxy or other type conventional paint. The
>Brits seem to me to perhaps use the term "enamelling" for the latter. Is
>this just a Anglicism or do they actual "enamel" frames in England? I've
>got an enamelled stove and that is 1,000 times tougher than any painted
>finish I've ever seen. An actual enamelled finish would be pretty cool if
>it wasn't too heavy and you didn't have to overheat the frame to fuse the
>enamel.
You're right Kurt, "enamelling" is a Britishism. I believe it distinguishes regular paint from laqueur (or nitrocellulose).
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada