View Poll Results: Have you ever considered a custom headbadge?
No
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26.67%
Yes
16
53.33%
Sometimes
5
16.67%
Why?
1
3.33%
Why not?
0
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Have you ever considered a custom headbadge?
03-01-15, 07:14 PM
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ummm......yeah. My thread below (Orval Commuter!)
03-01-15, 07:18 PM
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If I found a really cool frame that I "we" couldn't figure out the maker, yeah I'd want a custom badge.
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03-01-15, 07:20 PM
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There should be an option for "I've bought a custom headbadge".
And I'd do it again eventually (maybe Cthulhu).
And I'd do it again eventually (maybe Cthulhu).
03-01-15, 07:23 PM
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Yes, I owned a Gunnar Crosshairs for a while that had been repainted black with no decals. I considered getting a custom head badge but ultimately was too cheap.
03-01-15, 07:25 PM
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No.
I reserve that as billboard space for the builder. The rest of the frame is mine to do with as I please.
I reserve that as billboard space for the builder. The rest of the frame is mine to do with as I please.
03-01-15, 07:29 PM
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Yes. I've considered it. If I went ahead with the thing, I'd do it myself. I love an art project.
But I don't want to give a bike a name it doesn't deserve. I've tried that: my Falcon commuter is currently sporting bogus Dick Power graphics that used to kinda crack me up but now just strike me as wrong. It should have a Falcon head badge; none other will do.
My Holdsworth is a mid to late 70s frame that a previous owner customized and repainted up the wazoo and in the process its head badge was lost. Nothing will ever make that bike original again, so I gave it early Holdsworth graphics including a 1930s style head badge; truly bogus and even custom, but it says Holdsworth on it so at least that much is true. And it's actually a very good copy of an early Hildsworth head badge.
Beyond that... I thought about naming my touring bike... and it's not happening. When I repaint it, the original Trek headbadge is going back on it and that's that.
But I don't want to give a bike a name it doesn't deserve. I've tried that: my Falcon commuter is currently sporting bogus Dick Power graphics that used to kinda crack me up but now just strike me as wrong. It should have a Falcon head badge; none other will do.
My Holdsworth is a mid to late 70s frame that a previous owner customized and repainted up the wazoo and in the process its head badge was lost. Nothing will ever make that bike original again, so I gave it early Holdsworth graphics including a 1930s style head badge; truly bogus and even custom, but it says Holdsworth on it so at least that much is true. And it's actually a very good copy of an early Hildsworth head badge.
Beyond that... I thought about naming my touring bike... and it's not happening. When I repaint it, the original Trek headbadge is going back on it and that's that.
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03-01-15, 07:30 PM
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Nao Tomii (see flog00's Custom Bicycle thread), when he lived in the Boston area and before he built frames, was a sculptor and built custom bike parts on the side, including head badges. I asked him to pen a design for a head badge with my initials. I expected a drawing. Instead, this is what I got in the mail two days later:
Not laser cut, and not made from flat stock. True to his training in sculpture, Nao started with tube stock and hand cut and filed each of his badges. A few weeks later, unsolicited, he sent me a second one made from brass (sadly I don't have a photo of it).
Not laser cut, and not made from flat stock. True to his training in sculpture, Nao started with tube stock and hand cut and filed each of his badges. A few weeks later, unsolicited, he sent me a second one made from brass (sadly I don't have a photo of it).
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03-01-15, 07:39 PM
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I have... for my Mclean that originally had the silk hope/dragon sticker on the headtube. After repainting due to rust bubbling, I was unable to obtain dragon stickers from the source. So I thought a similar dragon headbadge would be fitting but never went further with the idea.
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03-01-15, 07:53 PM
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Any leads or recommendations? I spent nine years with the Ironhorse and would like to have a headbadge made like one of the coins, only curved to fit the headtube.
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03-01-15, 07:56 PM
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I was very tempted to have "?" Headbadge made instead of the original builders decals when I had the frame repainted. I relented and paid what i thought was too much for some simple decals. Sometimes i wish i would have followed thru with it..
03-01-15, 08:11 PM
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I voted "no" because I never had- until you posted this...
Yeah, I think the DUI unit crest would be cool as a head badge:
The question is what bike to put them on....
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03-01-15, 08:30 PM
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That shouldn't be very hard to do. Is that the best image you have? If you can find a reasonably high resolution image send me a pm and we'll take it from there.
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03-01-15, 08:31 PM
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03-01-15, 08:34 PM
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There's no problem coming up with 4th ID IVY patches in very high resolution. The harder part is justifying it to the wife. Because then I'd need yet another frame to put it on.....
03-01-15, 08:54 PM
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I made one for a customer sometime ago. He looks like "Yoda" of Star wars Fame so I made him a headbadge that looks just like him .It's made from sheet brass, cut it into an oval shape, formed in some frame blocks and a metal Yoda figure held in by screws . Easy. These are production pictures, the final badge was polished and then cleared with automotive clear.
03-01-15, 08:58 PM
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I have thought of custom decals for my frame school build, perhaps something with that old Paramount script, like the late 1930s to 1950s style. Anyone know the type style they used?
Something like this:
Waterford - Custom Bicycles and Frames
Something like this:
Waterford - Custom Bicycles and Frames
03-01-15, 09:33 PM
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Not on the Capos -- the company used that art deco script badge for many years.
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