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S-P Serious Thumper Offline Back in the saddle again Posts: 816 Phoenix, AZ Gender:	Side cover etching 04/05/14 at 11:42:31 I just checked out the Savage Facebook page and found this. I think I'm going to do something like this on my side covers.
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nickthe_human Full Member Offline Posts: 172 Arkansas Gender:	Re: Side cover etching Reply #1 - 04/05/14 at 12:41:36 looks good. as long as it matches the bike. i've seen some custom harleys with this done to different small parts and it really makes it look like a work of art.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Side cover etching Reply #2 - 04/05/14 at 16:55:04 Looks steampunk... I'd do it, if I had any talent...
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pg Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 5273 In Transit	Re: Side cover etching Reply #3 - 04/05/14 at 17:20:13 That takes some serious talent!
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Side cover etching Reply #4 - 04/05/14 at 23:37:26 pg wrote on 04/05/14 at 17:20:13: That takes some serious talent! I know my limits... ...(not really)... ...
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Re: Side cover etching
Reply #5 - 04/06/14 at 00:58:39

Hope you know a top rated powder coating specialist... that stuff is almost impossible to clean. I'd suggest sending it out for a dip in the show chrome tank...

Coming from somebody who hates-loathes-despises chrome to the point he thinks it should be hit with oven cleaner and left to rot because it would look better crusty than chromed...

Engraving isn't worth the headaches.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Side cover etching Reply #6 - 04/06/14 at 10:26:38 Before ya go for that, hang something of like texture on the side & ride.. see how nasty it gets & how fast,, Sure, its pretty, but do you REALLY want the hassle? Me? Ill hang art on a wall.,.& ride the bike.
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Re: Side cover etching
Reply #7 - 04/06/14 at 11:38:38

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 04/06/14 at 10:26:38:

Before ya go for that, hang something of like texture on the side & ride.. see how nasty it gets & how fast,, Sure, its pretty, but do you REALLY want the hassle? Me? Ill hang art on a wall.,.& ride the bike.

Yeah, I thought of that... I've washed my truck twice since I've owned it (2008) So no one would see the engraving anyway after a few weeks...

And chrome? Nah... I don't like shiny stuff either. I drive my stuff, I don't polish and shine it.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Side cover etching Reply #8 - 04/06/14 at 20:04:54 I understand the knee jerk "HEY! I mite just DO that!",, but, ya really dont sound like the kind of guy who would want the hassle of keeping it looking good enough to appreciate,, It would own YOU & you dont seem like youd like that,,
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Side cover etching Reply #9 - 04/06/14 at 21:26:02 ...but,.. the look is so Victorian/retro... I wonder if the aging and tarnish wouldn't just add to the look... If I could do it,... I would... Neat, neat, neat!... I may play with the idea on some scrap parts... ... Maybe learn how dumb I am... ...
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pg Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 5273 In Transit	Re: Side cover etching Reply #10 - 04/07/14 at 03:40:50 Serow: I'm imagining something like this in an old English font. Serowbot Tucson, AZ
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Re: Side cover etching
Reply #11 - 04/07/14 at 04:38:34

I was watching "How Things are Made" the other night, and an english company was making shotguns. They do a lot of the work by hand, and said it can take 1,200 hours to make a gun. Most of the parts were fit together by hand, they would blacken the parts with soot from a small lamp and then fit the parts together and see where the black rubbed off to do some more fitting. On some of the guns they would engrave a number, then undercut the engraving, and pound brass into the cavity and sand it smooth. This would make the number in the steel barrel brass colored. They also did a lot of engraving on the guns if requested (paid) to do so.

Another option if you are not an engraver, is to polish the aluminum parts and then make a template from rubber....and have the parts lightly bead blasted to make a matte finish where the stencil was cut away.

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