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).