This is my first post to the list, so hello, I'm David, a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University here in the UK and a U.S. home in Fremont, California. I appreciate all the great posts and advice the list renders up, and hope to contribute a bit more here as soon as my thesis is finished (by the end of the year).
This may sound like sacrilege to some on the list, but I the best thing for striping I've found is the suggestion on the UK Lightweights web site: signwriter's paint, available in art supply stores. If you use it with a brush, it wipes off clean before it's dry and you can fix your mistakes easily with it. For lugs, it also comes in fiber- tipped pens with an angle cut tip. You can get it in several metallic colors, including gold, silver, and copper, and your basic other colors. On lugs, you just draw the lines in, and you can direct the tip along the frame adjacent to the lug, on the lug edge, etc., with ease. Clear coat after they dry and it's a very nice way to deal with the problem.
Best Regards
David Allan Feller
Ph.D. Candidate
Cambridge University, Dept. of
History and Philosophy of Science
daf33@cam.ac.uk