Timeline for How to match a paint color?
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| Feb 1, 2012 at 1:09 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Of course the other option is to embrace the scratches. Maybe clear-coat them to prevent rusting, but otherwise let the bike look like it's used. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 6:39 | comment | added | Rick Ant | the most possible one for me is finding a small bottles with built in brush, since it's only a small chip | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 13:26 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Additionally, if you find the color you want is close to a standard color for a popular car you can often find touch-up paint in small bottles with a built-in brush. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 13:24 | comment | added | heltonbiker | You could visit a car painting shop. Since cars are so "abundant" (so as their needs for repainting), there are a lot of specialized equipment and methods on such shops, specially the tuning and customization ones. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 12:28 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | A few shops have an optical color matching device that can precisely "read" the color of a sample. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 9:15 | comment | added | cmannett85 | That's a bit risky because a photo will vary by the lighting conditions, camera settings, and the glossiness of the frame. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 8:23 | vote | accept | Rick Ant | ||
| Jan 30, 2012 at 8:23 | comment | added | Rick Ant | how about take photo and bring it to the paint shop for comparison ? | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 7:34 | history | answered | cmannett85 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |