I've found that white paint is pretty easy to match. Both my early 70s Gitane "Tour de France" and my pre-84 Ciocc "San Cristobal" had/have white paint jobs. I guess that's one reason why I seem to go for white paint jobs - even though my favorite color is black. Come to think of it, black is pretty easy to match, too.
Steve Whitting
Prairieville, Louisiana USA
http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: [CR] touchup paint To: "Vicente Saraco" <vosaraco@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, "ed" <bratt@sasktel.net> Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 2:25 PM
I never use anything except nail polish for touchup. It has numerous advantages in that it dries fast and hard, can be waxed with past wax without rubbing off, and if you botch the job, you can easily remove it with Acetone (aka Nail Polish Remover) with minimal damage to the original enamel paint.
It also comes in an amazing selection of colors. We probably have teenage girls to thank for this, since some nail polish colors, like that awful Raleigh chartreuse green, although a great match for bike paint, I can't imagine any adult woman actually wearing.
It was the late lamented Sheldon Brown who first alerted me to this with his comment that red bikes, besides being faster than any other color, had a guaranteed supply of perfectly matched touchup paint, since nail polish comes in every conceivable shade of red.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: ed <bratt@sasktel.net>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] touchup paint
\r?\n> To: "Vicente Saraco" <vosaraco@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 9:07 AM
\r?\n> Vincente:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I have found touchup colors at the cosmetics counter
\r?\n> disguised as "nail laquer", or "nail polish",. I do
\r?\n> not know whether they have Lagoon Blue, but there is a
\r?\n> pretty good chance of finding a match.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Ed Bratt
\r?\n> Regina, Saskatchewan.