Author Topic: Shag's tags (Read 2012 times)

SELLERSRODSHOP · « **on:** August, 26, 2011, 11:31:56 PM »

as some of you may have seen in another thread, craig was trusting enough to send me the original issue tags for shag this week to see if i could freshen them up. i had two candy jobs going towards the end of the week when they arrived, so got a bit of work done during the idle time between tint coats of candy. here is the "before" pics craig posted in the other thread:

here are the tags along with a pristine original supplied by crustycurmudgeon to use as a guide to match paint colors ( thanks frank!!):

i started with the worst of the two, which had a large crease all the way across the front between the "california" script & the numbers. i started straightening the crease & working the dents & bends out until i finally had it flat using a couple body hammers, pliers, & my steel welding table & bench vise as the "dolly'. here's the first one after being reworked next to the second:

i stripped the first one in the blast cabinet, then reworked the second one. both are good & flat now. these cali tags are a little different than most as the rib stamped around the border is recessed rather than raised like the letters/numbers, so there is actually three levels to work instead of two. most tags with two levels can be worked on a flat surface, but these require using the edge of the table for the inverted border to hang over.

i'll post updates as the progress continues. hope to have both stripped & in epoxy primer over the weekend while finishing up these candy jobs on the old harleys.

Ponyman66 · « **Reply #1 on:** August, 27, 2011, 12:35:26 AM »

Wow! Those are lookin' GREAT!

Craig should be thrilled with the end results!

crustycurmudgeon · « **Reply #2 on:** August, 27, 2011, 02:03:04 AM »

That's amazing!

Watching with great interest.

Frank

silverblueBP · « **Reply #3 on:** August, 27, 2011, 03:44:44 AM »

Can we lock Craig out of this thread??

opentrackerSteve · « **Reply #4 on:** August, 27, 2011, 06:19:42 AM »

What are you going to charge? Oi have one that needs add'l massaging...

cmayna · « **Reply #5 on:** August, 27, 2011, 06:41:31 AM »

Quote from: opentrackerSteve on August, 27, 2011, 06:19:42 AM

What are you going to charge? Oi have one that needs add'l massaging...

Oh did he forget to say that he offers such services only to SF Giants fans?

gtscode · « **Reply #6 on:** August, 27, 2011, 06:49:04 AM »

Looking good!!!

AtlantaSteve · « **Reply #7 on:** August, 27, 2011, 07:29:12 AM »

Great Job

Only thing I can promise is that if I tried to work them like that, they'd end up way worse than when I started!

Sacbill · « **Reply #8 on:** August, 27, 2011, 11:28:51 PM »

Quote from: gtscode on August, 27, 2011, 06:49:04 AM

Looking good!!!

+1

lethal289 · « **Reply #9 on:** August, 28, 2011, 04:16:33 AM »

I can't wait to see more! Looks great Steve

SELLERSRODSHOP · « **Reply #10 on:** August, 29, 2011, 08:32:32 PM »

got both tags blasted now & in epoxy primer;

Sacbill · « **Reply #11 on:** August, 29, 2011, 08:36:31 PM »

Quote from: SELLERSRODSHOP on August, 29, 2011, 08:32:32 PM

got both tags blasted now & in epoxy primer;

Man, those things are going to kick ass!

AzPete · « **Reply #12 on:** August, 30, 2011, 04:57:17 AM »

You are doing the numbers in green to match his mankini....right?

70_Fastback · « **Reply #13 on:** August, 30, 2011, 05:19:05 AM »

Awesome Steve!

Anxious to see how you paint the letters. I am thinking about re-furbing my '41 plates.

Fast68back · « **Reply #14 on:** August, 30, 2011, 05:27:24 AM »

I think you should leave them red. Shag could be a Christmas tree!

KBMWRS · « **Reply #15 on:** August, 30, 2011, 07:47:54 AM »

paint them pink

cmayna · « **Reply #16 on:** August, 30, 2011, 10:12:32 AM »

Too bad they'll never look as good as me

SELLERSRODSHOP · « **Reply #17 on:** September, 01, 2011, 10:19:57 PM »

got a little more done tonight. spent a couple hours smearing polyester putty with a razor blade in some of the non original wrinkles added over the years & sanding smooth. tedious work sanding between the letters & numbers to say the least. after i had most of that done, i threw them in with a set of 62 harley tins that i was spraying some high build primer on & added a coat. the better of the two tags is ready to wetsand & paint but still have a few small spots to address on the other one. i had to do ALOT of metal shrinking on the bad one as the metal had stretched & "oilcanned" when it was creased. with all the stampings, you really have to have a feel for how the metal needs to be worked to shrink instead of making it worse. i'm really happy with how these are coming along.

the one on the right (top) stll has a few places you can see that need fixing. alot of the bumps & valleys are original to the tag & how it was stamped. thanks to the original frank sent as a reference, i can leave the original stampings intact & keep it looking more authentic...

as far as the black base color, i think i'm gonna use the black single stage urethane i had flattened 40% to match the original harley chassis black. i also have some of the same in a 100% flattened "zero gloss" that i can mix in to flatten the 40% a tad more until i reach the proper gloss level of the original.

silverblueBP · « **Reply #18 on:** September, 02, 2011, 04:04:33 AM »

Craig's gonna need a 2nd mortgage to pay this bill!! Amazing work Steve.

tarafied1 · « **Reply #19 on:** September, 02, 2011, 04:48:34 AM »

these are already nicer than my car! great work

cmayna · « **Reply #20 on:** September, 02, 2011, 05:22:17 AM »

All I want to know is,

is that on the very left of the last pic. A foot rest of a barber shop chair?

SELLERSRODSHOP · « **Reply #21 on:** September, 02, 2011, 08:57:22 AM »

yes, a 1959 koken president that i picked up a while back. i keep one around to sit in when my gets out of whack standing on that concrete floor for hours at a time. i had a 1921 koken & a 1959 paidar in the shop when it burned, but have to redo some stuff on them before they are useable again...

1959 koken

1921 koken:

1959 paidar:

my 1901 koken thats in the house:

tarafied1 · « **Reply #22 on:** September, 02, 2011, 09:33:07 AM »

cool, my great grandfather was a barber and had a shop in his house. He had a chair that (as my memory serves) looks like the 59...

mmw68 · « **Reply #23 on:** September, 02, 2011, 06:04:41 PM »

Very cool! Would it be legal to leave them like this? Kind of the stealth look. Maybe a fine pin stripe to out line the letters, or a ghost shade of black on the letter?