{"id":53,"date":"2013-05-19T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-05-19T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T18:45:10","slug":"building-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Building character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in here I painted the tank. There were some small dents I had to take care of and the whole thing got sanded down to metal through several layers of none original paint. I&#8217;m a rattle can painter. Slow buildup of lots of layers and lots of fine sanding and I really believe to can get a really nice result. I also have a secret weapon, a clear coat made for those gas powered remote control cars that has really good fuel resistance and I&#8217;ve never had problems with paint incompatibilities either. I had simpler ideas for the tank as I remember when I started but as the masking tape goes on sometimes plans change. I love how it came out and defines the character of the bike. Its not stock but pays a little tribute to the original paint schemes and adds tasteful customization that make it mine. The logo is just a decal available from lowbrow customs but never understood emblems. After finishing the tank paint I completely screwed it up with the clear coat running. So whole thing will get redone at some point but think in the end it was necessary to get &#8220;rough&#8221; draft of it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in here I painted the tank. There were some small dents I had to take care of and the whole thing got sanded down to metal through several layers of none original paint. I&#8217;m a rattle can painter. Slow buildup of lots of layers and lots of fine sanding and I really believe to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bikeintheshedblog.techextrodinaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}