[CR] Headbadge maker at NAHBS? was Headbadge basics

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:52:16 -0800 (PST)
From: "Thomas Adams" <thomasthomasa@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR] Headbadge maker at NAHBS? was Headbadge basics


A helpful listmember sez there was a professional headbage making company at NAHBS this year.  Does anyone have contact information?  Not that I couldn't do a wonderful job myself, but it's my duty to stimulate the economy---

Tom Adams Manhattan KS USA

At the recent NAHBS there was a head badge making company displaying. They might be worth talking with.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Adams" <thomasthomasa@yahoo.com> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 4:44 PM Subject: [CR] Headbadge basics

Dear List:

I'm thinking about getting in over my head again, to try to make a headbadge for the Willis frame. What materials will I need? Brass, aluminum, or what? How thick of a stock do I use? How thick can I use? Thicker stock would perhaps be more durable, and allow for roudning the edges, but would be harder to work. Any particular rules for cutting it? My plan, for any piece I can't reach with tin snips, is to drill a series of holes near the interior line, snip the remainders and then polish flat with a file. Color, if brass, will probably be bare polished. If aluminum, then black.

Suggestions for rounding the badge? How large should the item be? Screws or rivets? If screws, what size and what size hole to drill in the headtube? And what length screw?

Instrument laquer, or just a good coat of wax? What says the group?

Tom Adams, Manhattan, KS

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