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Date: 10 Aug 2006 18:13:28
From: Robert Harmon
Subject: custom paint for machines
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I've a friend who does custom paint for bikers. He saw that I had several
old-style (steam valve knob in front) Coffees & asked for one so he could
try out some ideas he has about custom paint jobs for espresso machines. He
wants to trick out an otherwise stock machine & see if there's any interest
on eBay. BTW, he wants to do a G' Dead skeleton or American Beauty rip off
for the paint job. I won't sell this on eBay because I believe in preserving
intellectual property rights, but if I can get him to change his mind do you
think there might be a market for custom painted espresso machines. Forget
that we're doing this on an old Coffee - future jobs will probably be done
on customer machines. We're hoping others are getting tired of their boring
S/S pigs just sitting there, not adding one damned thing to the aesthetics
of a room!
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Robert (air guitar maestro for Uncle John's Band) Harmon
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Date: 10 Aug 2006 16:04:52
From: jim schulman
Subject: Re: custom paint for machines
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:13:28 GMT, "Robert Harmon"
<r_h_harmon@Zhotmail.com > wrote:
> do you
>think there might be a market for custom painted espresso machines.
Odd coincidence. Before I got my new Elektra, I googled on "clear coat
chrome," on the fair certainty I'd need to get dings out of mine
occasionally, and discovered the wonderful world of bike nuts.
Needless to say, any medium sized town will have a place that will
plate, powder coat, put chrome pipes and fins, or otherwise refinish
or customize espresso machines.
Of course, this never stopped anyone from doing the same on ebay.
My guess would be that doing commercial machines for cafes might be a
more lucrative way to go; especially if your friend took a gander at
historic machines, e.g.
http://www.espressomadeinitaly.com/indexSito.htm
and based some eyepopping customizations on them.
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