A nice copper skull with tiny brass skull eyes. Nice head badge for a day of the dead bike, or if you are into that kind of thing.
Copper and Brass Skull Head Badge
Tag: copper
The Great Pumpkin Hunt Alley Cat Head Badge
Another Halloween race, another head badge prize donation. I went with something recognizable and popular, jack the pumpkin king.
Don’t Steal Bike Bro U-Lock Badge
Copper with liver of sulfur oxidation, then polished slightly to leave the letters dark but the rest more bronze like. Bike cut out was pierced out with saw and pin vice drill. I annealed the copper before using the letter punches and it gave a much nicer impression.
Steampunk U-Lock Badge
So I was trying to make something really clean and nice looking…but I am a moron and was using the totally wrong solder…so I ended up with a gritty steam punk U-lock badge instead….
I sorta like the end results, came out very gritty and after a bit of polishing it doesn’t look half bad.
U-Lock Badge
I have an old Kryptonite U-lock that I have had for a couple years, does a great job of locking up my bike, but is kind of ugly…hence the U-lock badge was born.
I think I am going to start selling these guys as custom products like the head badges.
Custom Head Badge Order: Cow Bell
Got my first custom head badge order from Etsy.
I was sent this:
And came up with this:
Gave it a nice high polish and burnished the edges (I know no one ever looks but I like to make them classy). It was a simple design, but I enjoyed making it none the less.
More Tree Head Badges
Even though these little guys take forever, and are very hard to finish (polishing requires a very fine touch), I really like the end result, and I bet it would look dead sexy on a bicycle, or a journal.
Working On Some Tree Silhouette Head Badges
Its really hot, and all the copper dust is mixing with my sweat and turning my hands green. I like to sit and work on these in one continuous cut, it takes about two hours and my back gets very sore from hunching over, but if I take a break or do it in more than one cut they never seem to come out as good as if I just power though…
Sold The Sperm Whale Headbadge
This terror of the deep (at least if you are a giant squid) is off to a new home, bye whaley!
M M M M Making Whale Headbadges
Making some whale headbadges.
