Diane Blake, who attended Cirque 2005 and lives in Orlando has a pantograph machine, but if I recall, she said she had not used it since the 70s. A co-worker at my plant has a laser etcher and he did some stems for me a couple of months ago. They are not engraved of course, but the effect is very nice. I can send pictures if anyone is interested. He will do the stems for $20 plus postage with you supplying the stem. We have talked about chainrings and seatposts, but haven't gotten that far in our discussions. He also has a metal lathe and said he could do engravings on flat surfaces like chainrings, but again, I haven't taken anything to him for that. A Southern California listmember has modified some chainrings with Masi M cutouts. I bought one at Cirque last year and it is now on one of my bikes. Lou Deeter, Orlando FL
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-----Original Message----- From: henox <henox@icycle.net> To: Warren Hall <warrenhall@houston.rr.com>; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:58:38 -0800 Subject: Re: [CR]Pantographing
Subject: [CR]Pantographing
Warren asked:
Is there anyone around that still pantographs parts?
In the U.S. this is normally called engraving and there are LOTS of engravers out there. I subcontract out crowns and bottom brackets to be engraved with my logo's. The engravings are filled with contrasting colors after the frames and forks are painted
Is it difficult to do?
Not if you have an engraving machine (like Hermes), are willing to build the tooling to hold the parts you want to engrave, and have the necessary experience using the engraver.
The current alternative to conventional (old fashioned) engraving is laser engraving of anodized parts and many consumer products have parts that are laser engraved.
Hugh Enox