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I'm nestled amongst the pines for 3 days on our Memorial Day holiday weekend. Peaceful, relaxing, needed.
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Before I left the city, however, I met up with Justin my soon to be step-grandson-in-law. He works for a custom design company as a welder and machinist.

I had sent him a design a couple weeks ago, and he brought it to fruition. Even picked some 'pre-rusted' stock, just for me.

Flame on! RaT oN~!

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Got home late yesterday from the lake, and muster-ed up the energy for some RaT-ina work at the BACK40 paint stump.

After tallying the votes on the 'chain guard color poll', it came out 2 for frame color, 2 for fender color, 1 wheel color, and 1 black.

I went for the fender match, with RaT-ina. Here are a few step by step photos, same process as the frame.

What I started with, the black Manhattan. Which, come to think of it, would be a great name for a late-afternoon-beverage...

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First coat is the Rustoleum Rust Primer red, followed by some Cinnamon highlighting.

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Then apply the mustard where I want the RusTina to show through, and then paint immediately over with the top coat.

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I used the Rustoleum Hammered paint, a VERY light coating from about 4 feet away, otherwise this particular paint gets really heavy.
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And the results. I'll probably add some Rustoleum Multicolor Texture today to bring out the rusty brown hues.

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Got in just a couple minutes in the BACK40 before work at the bike shop tonight. Added some of my favorite RusT-ification with the Rustoleum Multi-Texture paint to some of the chrome and shiny parts on the bike. Brown rust works well on those silver tones.
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Just wondering how the mustard trick works? (Apologies if it's been explained before) Does the topcoat not stick to the mustard and then reveals the primer coat beneath? Another tutorial I must search out.
The topcoat sticks to the mustard, but the mustard doesn't stick to the previous primer coat. So when I use the garden hose (didn't mention that I guess in the chain guard steps) in a fine concentrated stream, I hose off the mustard, carrying the top coat with it, and revealing the primer and cinnamon colors underneath.
You say patina, I say rat-ina. Rat-ina, patina.

I have been watching Youtube for the past week, checking out some new rusting and weathering techniques. Following is the combined stuff I put together for my approach to achieve the rustification I desired on the MIG-RaT. I have my own weird Rat-ionalizations for how I did it.

#1. Pick a nice dry day with a light wind in the mid 60's, and a semi sun / semi shade area.
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#2. Use a Park Tool stand from 1988 that doesn't have all it's parts anymore, to hold your bike for the process.

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#3. Apply a medium coat of Orange Peel texture to the bike, heavier in the spots where you want the rust to appear to have gathered / bubbled.

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#4. Spray the whole frame with a Rust Primer. It is very strong and will hold on to even the places where the paint is missing on your frame. I don't even sand the old paint when I use this, it sticks this well. Designed to keep rust away. I use it to attract rust.

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#5. Spot rust over the areas where you want the most rust to show through the paint. This is one of my favorite colors, Cinnamon, which gives an orangish hue to the rust job. This is applied with a heavy scrubbie by shooting it with paint, and then dabbing it on where you want it.

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#6. Colonel Mustard did it with a sponge in the BACK40.
Apply some mustard to the car wash sponge, and dab it on the frame where you want the rust to show through. After you apply the mustard, spray your top coat right away, so the mustard doesn't dry hard. Then wait a few minutes, till the top coat looks like it is getting tacky, and then hose off the frame. Where the mustard was, the top coat (my French Blue) will release, and reveal the rust coating underneath. I used my garden hose with the nozzle turned way down to a fine, strong, misting stream for good control.

Let the frame sit out in the perfect weather and dry. Sit back and crack a beer. Or in my case, shower and head to work so you can make money to support your rat rod bike habit....

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Click on this link ^ to the post I made about doing the frame in the same way.
 
I looked for some of that multicolored textured autumn brown the other day, but nobody seems to stock it any more.
Huh? Weird. My Ace Hardware down the street and the Home Depot both stock the lighter colored one I used on this build, and the darker version.
 
You might be thinking, "Huh, OddJob hasn't posted any progress in three days. Did he fall off the face of the earth?" :21:

No, not quite. I have been busy in my non - employed work hours with a refurb / redo on our back deck. Used some good old physics, some geometry, and some English along the way.

The guys that built this back in 1988 when the house was new, didn't do it right. The cement bases for the 4x4 posts weren't below the frost line; so whenever it froze (haha) it would grab the concrete and push it up above ground. :mad:

I had been whittling away at the posts sitting on the bases long enough, and my wife wanted to go 'maintenance free' (riiiiiight) on the decking material. I used a tripod jack with a worm gear and hook, wrapped an 8' logging chain around the cement monsters and with Barb anchoring one rear pod with her whole body, and my foot on the other; I cranked the suckers out of the ground.

A few shots from the project....railings go up tomorrow before I head into the bike shop again for the weekend.

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And...I'm dying to get these flames mounted!

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