Customer: Hot Rod Enthusiast
Sometimes just because you think you can do something, doesn’t mean you should. This was our first project— and it was right within our wheel house. The charter was to 3D print a logo for this guy’s awesome hot rod. After a few iterations and some time with the airbrush, it was very clear we wouldn’t be able to “fake” it with plastic, and not look completely out of place ontop of this one-of-a-kind, perfectly painted custom Ford hot-rod.
So when we said we would make it, we really meant we would build a CNC machine, learn how to use it, and fail nothing short of 20 or 30 times before we got something we felt good about.
We routed the logo in 6061-0 aluminum stock, casted it with color-matched epoxy, and fortunately met a master metal worker and awesome guy named David who helped us figure out how to bend it it to perfectly match the hood of the car.
This simple little badge reflects a lot of little lessons and marks the start of our journey into custom design work.