Received my frame a few days ago. Ordered it August 16th and it arrived September 24th. I asked to be sent a picture of the frame painted before they shipped, but that never happened lol. They also didn't tell me they shipped it until I asked a few days before it arrived.
Paint is ok, for 50$. I sent them pantone colors and they're actually pretty good. There was a chip in the headtube cup (because of poor masking and overspray it looks like) on top that's kind of noticeable. Smaller issues pretty much wherever they had to mask an opening. Seat tube opening is also pretty marked up. The fork has some pretty hilariously bad drips that dried solid on top.
From the outside the carbon seems solid. No obvious issues, some sharp edges in side
Still haven't had a chance to ride it yet because building it up has been extremely difficult. The two lightcarbon MTBs I put together were super easy and smooth, this thing not so much. Because of the overspray the fork brake line opening had to be sanded a bunch to barely fit a housing through. The rear derailleur path had a bunch of loose foam and some carbon strands stuck inside that made feeding the housing in impossible until I noticed and was able to knock it out. Then the most difficult part is feeding the housing through the handlebar! The openings are tiny and 4 housings barely fit in there. It's super crowded and difficult to work with. Which leads the next problem I have now. After finally getting everything together, the semi-circle crown race thing that keeps the steerer tube centered seems to have popped off. Another problem with the handlebars is because of the tiny opening the housing comes out at an inconvenient angle and it's incredibly difficult to get the cables going to the right places in the headtube, and to get that crown race pressed down.
My handlebar problems haven't even ended yet either. The two bolts used for clamping are too short! Maybe if the handlebar was off the steerer it would be possible to compress it enough to get them threaded. I ended up buying some longer M5 bolts that are ugly but work. After some more days of struggling I should have it finished and I'll take some better pictures.
Also the headset compression plug they sent was cross threaded and doesn't work correctly. Luckily I had a leftover one I didn't use from my earlier builds.
