Free Fade Powder Coating

[EvilErnie]

Cant wait!!

Red, I am shipping you my marker on Wed. I was wondering if you can do the mainbody and rail in the 3D redlava and the sightrail and foregrip in the 3D blue? If so thats what I want! If not just the 3D RED lava. Thanks.

[Xzion]

Redrider; When ya get the pics, e-mail them to me, and I'll post them for you if you like, just like all the other pics

[scribe]

someone should send 1 person all the pics of his work and just post it on this last page. i wanna see all the cool colors. not for me to get it powerdercoated but just for everyone to see. i'm sure everyone is interested in how all the guns look and how the colors look.

[iisp0tii]

poweder coating is easy, im going to get my whole gun along w/ barrel, & handle coated, i just dont know what colors to fade.

[Xzion]

Another Pic from RedRider:

Looking good Red

[speedballbanks]

that is f***ing sweet man hey post pics of all your work redrider or e-mail them to me and i will make a part of my page to all of your work and will give your e-mai out and pricing so you will have a buisness that will spread with my friends ok lemme know.

[MikeCouves]

Yeah I can't wait to get my powercoating from redrider. It's gonna be sweet...it sure is.

Mike

[DYE-BaLLeR]

my gun just got coated as we speak, hes sending it back, ill put pics up

[automagseeker]

man thats sweet, Hope red gets some sleep , he has so many guns to do now, man you must be rich right red?

[DiRTyBuNNy]

Red, you wouldn't happen to have blue p/c in any other shades do you?...just wondering..although i'd still like to get my gun in a nice blue/black fade...

[redrider87]

First off I would like to say I AM SORRY to the guys waiting for there guns. I had too many guns and not enought time. I had to hand polish a teflon mag for two days just to get it ready. I had to send out a grip frame to be taken a part. I also had too many to do. I am sorry!!!
Right now there is a waiting list of about a week. For the people that or just e-mailing me know. Not the ones I already have. Those will be out Monday at the Latest. Again I am sorry but not having more then 24 hours in one day and only sleeping 4 hours sucks!!!

[DiRTyBuNNy]

Red, i won't be able to send mine in for about 2 weeks so i'm not a priority at all..but i would like to get on the list for around Thanksgiving...

[automagseeker]

Yes Red get your sleep, I will email you tonight, discussing my job, but dont let this get ahold of you too much

[painteater]

hey red gimme a pm when you get my parts thanks a lot

marc

[Tankdriver]

RE: powdercoating at local stores

Just want to share my experiences about getting my automag body powdercoated at a local store in response to a post a while back. I live in Irvine, CA. I read about powdercoating in a different forum, so I pull out my yellow pages to look up some powdercoating shops in the area, and there are a couple in the area in the Fontain Valley area, so I drive out there and have a couple stores take a look at the body to see if they could do it. The first store I went to wanted $35 for a basic blue powdercoat, and $10 extra if I wanted an metallic color. I figured that was an ok price, so i give him my body and pick it up in three days. When I got it back, I couldn't believe what I saw. My automag body looked like a piece of ****, literally. The surface of my body looked wrinkled and ribbed, its not something i can really describe, but trust me it looked hideous. The store owner wasn't in that day(his wife was and she didn't know anything about why it came out like this) so I decided to try another powdercoat shop in the area. Then I am told by the second owner that the first owner didn't properly clean the surface before powdercoating it, thats why the surface came out 'wrinkled'. So I decide let this second guy have a crack at it. He charged $10 for stripping off the first coat, then another $35 for the job itself. I got it back in roughly a week, and this time it looked fine, just like the way a stock AGD Black Teflon mainbody would look like, but instead, I spent 35+10+35 to make my grey body look black, not the mention the time waste driving back and forth. For that amount of money I could've easily purchased another used body. So I just wanted to share this with everyone who might be thinking about taking their paintball parts to just any local powdercoat store in their area, I highly recommend against it. I am getting my used RT from EBAY in a couple of days, and I am expecting to be scratched at least in some places. I am not trying to pitch sale for Redrider, just judging from the pictures posted in this thread, I am going to send him my RT as soon as I can. First off, he owns a paintgun, so he understands that powdercoat is actually a pretty 'thick' coating that may interfere with tolerances (ie getting the mainbody and rail to fit properly) if the powdercoat is not done correctly, it may cause leaks and such. Second, as far as I know, no one out there even knows how to do a fade powdercoat other than him. And finally, his prices seem very reasonable. My advice to everyone is to please take the time to read the 6 pages of posts under this thread, so you don't flood Redrider with the same questions about price/color that might have been answered elsewhere in the post. Poor guy probably has a backlog of jobs well into next year, and at $25 for a mainbody fade, he is doing a HUGE favor for us AO members by offering his services.