hey has anyone ever heard about BLACK CHROME for your rims?? - Honda Prelude Forum

sxyflyttr · 05-14-2002, 09:20 PM

hey has anyone ever heard about BLACK CHROME for your rims??
know where i can get it done at?

axion68 · 05-14-2002, 09:41 PM

isn't chrome only in silver???!

qualude98sh · 05-14-2002, 09:50 PM

i was just checking on some of this stuff today, well kinda. yes i've heard of the color black chrome, but don't know if it's actually chrome w/black pigment/dye added or something. i had a mountain bike that was "black chrome" and it was cool, yunno it was like a black transparent color. that's pretty much the effect i'm looking for too. haven't talked to a chrome plater, but i'm sure you could find all kinds of stuff on the web. what i did check on was anodizing (in case you read my earlier post). with anodizing, you can add pigment to adjust the effect. the dude recommended hard anodizing, which is a little different process, but he says i should be able to get the color i'm looking for (not like completely oxidized black, but kinda charcoal color), and you can see the shine of the aluminum through the anodizing, giving a little bit different effect than painted/powdercoated surface. oh yeah, and hard anodizing has the same kinds of strength properties as chrome plating.... "HARD AS HELL!!!!!"

Anton BB6 · 05-14-2002, 10:47 PM

my H emblem is black chrome

Anton BB6 · 05-14-2002, 10:59 PM

chrome versus BLACK chrome

axngen · 05-14-2002, 11:57 PM

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Originally posted by menace
chrome versus BLACK chrome

wouldn't that just be gunmetal?

Ludatic · 05-15-2002, 12:05 AM

They also have "black chrome" s2000 emblems.. i dont htink its gunmetal.. i dunno.. they're close enuf =-P

Anton BB6 · 05-15-2002, 12:06 AM

Yes, to save the confusion... yes

black chrome = gunmetal

axngen · 05-15-2002, 12:08 AM

i believe anthracite could be another alternative..unless that's considered to be gunmetal too

sxyflyttr · 05-15-2002, 01:49 AM

obviously BLACK CHROME is not GUNMETAL
u can obviously see the difference in gunmetal and black chrome.
gunmetal doesnt have all the shine to it.

ciacia · 05-15-2002, 04:31 AM

i guess you guys are talking about "shadow chrome"
like the rims in this pic

pic courtesy of bgworldwheels

cheers....

vooboo13 · 05-15-2002, 09:24 AM

I thought black opal was a black chrome?

Systemix · 05-15-2002, 12:10 PM

As far as I know black chrome is just that.....reflective, darkened chrome. Gunmetal is, just like it says, like the dark metal found on guns and some rifles. I don't think that they are the same.....they have indicitively different textures and hues.

PearlH22Gen5 · 05-15-2002, 06:50 PM

no black chrome does not = gunmetal. momo makes rims in a tinted chrome, i forget what they call it. i believe that have rights to it also, even though there are many "lookalikes.''

Anton BB6 · 05-15-2002, 07:21 PM

The only people that could tell the difference is the owner... so basically, same thing.

ILikeNakedGirls · 05-15-2002, 08:10 PM

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Originally posted by menace
my H emblem is black chrome

out of curiosity. i bought and put on the black chrome emblems but i wonder if i got the accord ones or the s2k ones because i had to hack off the posts on the back and use double sided tape on them. there was just no chance of them fitting any other way. where your like this, and also did honda rape you like 20$ an emblem also?

Anton BB6 · 05-15-2002, 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by ILikeNakedGirls

out of curiosity. i bought and put on the black chrome emblems but i wonder if i got the accord ones or the s2k ones because i had to hack off the posts on the back and use double sided tape on them. there was just no chance of them fitting any other way. where your like this, and also did honda rape you like 20$ an emblem also?

I was in the EXACT same boat.

Sucks doesn't it.

screamer5300 · 05-15-2002, 08:30 PM

black chrom is in between gunmetal (more shinier/ reflective) and chrome. There is a difference.

they glow darker than chrome.

Black pearl is an awesome paint color for rims tho. They have black matallic paint on them.

DYI01 · 05-15-2002, 08:45 PM

i thought more along the lines of "hyper black"

Systemix · 05-18-2002, 09:18 PM

Black chrome is reflective(or more accurately refractive).
Gun metal doesn't tend to be.
Neither of them can be simply described as a color. They incorperate texture and tint into the mix among other things. Black chrome wouldn't be the same if it wasn't shiny, but shiny isn't a color....am I making sense?