Powder coat match for Bianchi green

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Dave Feldman

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Dec 20, 2018, 1:24:26 PM12/20/18
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Has anyone had a frame powder coated to match "Celeste?"  Do you know what manufacturer makes the color in powder--Cardinal, Prismatic, etc.

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David Feldman
Vancouver, WA

Bradford Riendeau

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Dec 22, 2018, 9:10:07 PM12/22/18
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I have spent a fair amount of time going through the blues and greens on Prismatic's web site looking for a match to the blue/green that Gitane used.
I am pretty sure you can get very close to the Bianchii "Celeste"
You can order swatches.  
A couple of starting points are
and

Whit Johnson

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Dec 23, 2018, 1:58:36 PM12/23/18
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Sea foam green
https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/powder-coating-colors/PSS-4063/sea-foam-green

Bradford Riendeau

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Dec 25, 2018, 4:04:20 PM12/25/18
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The guy I use has me order the color I want shipped to me and then I bring it in for the powder coat.  That way he doesn't get stuck with powder that someone changed their mind about.


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Eric Nichols

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Dec 30, 2018, 10:20:27 AM12/30/18
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Bear in mind too that there has been quite a lot of variation in Bianchi’s Celeste color over the years. They are all basically blue-green, but some are lighter, some are darker, some are more blue, some are more green.

Eric

Bradford Riendeau

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Jan 12, 2019, 9:47:56 AM1/12/19
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One of the thoughts I have read on the colors origin is that it was originally a blue with a varnish clear coat and the varnish yellowed over time yielding the color we know and love, but in various shades dependant on the amount of yellowing.

David Bohm

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Jan 13, 2019, 9:13:19 AM1/13/19
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I have done some paint jobs where I made my own colors by mixing raw earth ochers and such with bases and spraying those.

 

One place I got some colors had a celeste like color and it turns out that the mill is just a few miles from the Bianchi factory.   These colors are made by digging up earth pigments, letting them settle in ponds and boxing them up.  They are then mixed with oils and such to make artistic paints.  My guess is this is the original “celeste”.   It just makes too much sense.  It is dang close to the older celeste and it’s so close to the factory I feel they might have just used that.  The proprietary color was just that, it came out of the ground and there is only one place that has just that color.

 

Later they probably tried replicating the color with modern chemistry and it changed somewhat, probably ages differently as well.   The color was never blue, I can say that.  

 

Eric is right, it has varied quite a bit so it’s a hard color to nail down.

 

Dave Bohm

Bohemian Bicycles

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