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kevski:
Spray painting all the way for me, my Zed came to me already powder coated and as happens a heck of a lot the frame number is completely obscured, my last resto was an XS650, i completely stripped it by hand and repainted it with gloss smoothrite, i then left it in my spare room for a few months whilst doing other jobs on the bike, the paint dried lovely and hard and at a fraction of the cost a readable frame number, a much better job.

kettle738:

Here is some original Honda frame paint for comparison......very glossy, very thin, shows up every tiny detail, still looks superb, all it required was some of the welds touching in, the paint on the frame tubes is all Honda.

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Rob62:
Lovely.... my old frame is original paint too and ok in most areas, but it needs touching up here and there. So i will need to paint some areas and then lacquer over the whole thing i guess..... but the original paint is quite glossy not satin as apparently on some old honda’s.

Trigger:
The paint seemed to change over the year and the range of the SOHC. The early 750's and 500's had like a satin black, where the 400's and the 550F's had what I would say is a semi gloss black. Paint technology was moving very fast in the early 70's  ;)

Integra99:

If you are going for an original restoration paint is best.. and you can touch it up much easier and looks more original I suppose. I had my CB400 painted and baked in a spray booth, came out lovely... and was quite inexpensive vs powder.

I've had several frames powercoated as well and wouldnt hesitate to powder coat another.. as the finish was superb and very durable far more than spray or rattle can.

Paint...



Powder..

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