Reo Grand new "PC" finish

[Mata]

I've searched high and low here on the forum but i couldn't find anything about the new "PC" finish.
What is it? Is it "matter than matte"? That Gold Grand looks like a "desert sand" shade in the pic and i surely love it

 

[Sterno]

its a powder coat finish it looks real nice Mata

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

I know that powder coating has several finishes....but I don't know if Rob has done a matte yet. The finish on both of mine are shiny or glossy.

 

[kabonk]

I miss my yellow VVG I hope he comes home soon

 

[redeyedancer]

I miss my yellow VVG I hope he comes home soon

Its leaving Maine today

 

[colt45]

the copper vein and silver vein are not really matte finish but they are a very nubby feel

 

[Mata]

oh PC stands for Powder Coat
me slowminded i have a copper vein Mini V2 and it's everything but matte

 

[Rudakus]

Lol Mata I didn't put that together until you just stated it

 

[FeistyAlice]

The first and only the first run of Grands had a matt finish although they were anodized. I call them "buff" and they have a shaved velvet look and feel that I particularly like. Although the lighter colors don't show fingerprints, from normal skin oils, like the Polished do, they do tend to get dirtier faster. I like to put a thin coat of metal polish with protectants (no hard rubbing while applying) on my annodized REOs to offer a little protection but I don't do it with the "buffs" as is changes the look and feel. Gold/black Grand, in current avatar, is a "buff."

Feisty Alice

 

[FeistyAlice]

It's really hard to show the "buff" finish but would be better if a "buff" and shinier REO were together in a picture. The colors are about the same but in most lighting the colors do look different in photographs. Sorry, I don't have a pic of the two different ones handy although I do have several "normal" golds. I'll see if I can get around to snapping a shot. Although the buff was not polished first, before anodizing, you don't see the tumbled showing through the coating as we now see on the non-polished before anodizing metals. Rob did do a few anodized that were polished before the anodizing was applied. (Polishing before anodizing or just polishing is extremely time/labor intensive for Robert or anyone else.) They are brilliantly shiny. I do have one of those in my collection, a "polished" purple Mini. What I do know is that along the way some of the anodizing has been shinier than others. I have one purple, non pre-polished, that is so shiny it is difficult to know that it is not pre-polished prior to anodizing unless you put it close to other purples. It became evident to me that the shine on that shiny purple was not a pre-polished when I put it next to a pre-polished purple.

Gold is a "buff." Blue Mini is a short run of Mini that Robert did Summer 2010 before he released his first big run of Mini after first release of Grands. The "texture" under the anodizing is different from most other metal REOs I have.