Vince Hoffmann

Hello everyone
I have a 1983(ish) Treviso that is curently at the chrome and paint shop that I intend to fully restore, but it arrived in my possession without a head badge. Since these are extremely hard to find, I'm making a reproduction from steel and photoetching the areas to be painted. My problem is that when I dropped off the frame, I failed to measure the distance between the rivet holes. Since I won't have access to the frame for a few months I'm stuck with a problem.
I'm hoping one of my fellow vintage Pinarello owners can put a quick ruler to their head badge and give me this dimension! I'll say please please please and send flowers and chocolates and be eternally grateful!

Here's the artwork, I just need the rivet hole spacing

dmp

Mine is an 84 and has a decal, not a head badge.

cb400bill

My 97-ish Stelvio had a headbadge. I sold it this fall to forum member blart. He may be willing to measure it.

Vince Hoffmann

Hey folks
I'm continuing this thread to show Everyone what has conspire over the past 6 months. The artwork above was refined and badges have been fabricated, first in stainless steel, which turned out to be too difficult to work, then in brass.The brass badges look fantastic and I’m going to try a couple different finishes to see what works best. The steel is .010 with .03 etch and it just looks too flat. The bronze is .030 with .15 etch and looks much better and close to the stamped metal of the original badges.

P!N20

Holy moly, they look AMAZING!

Agree the bronze has a bit more 'depth'. Is the intent to paint it? Just wondering how the paint goes on either material.

randyjawa 

I would be very interested in seeing details of the fabrication process. That said, very well done! I am impressed.

CyclingFool95 

Actually, I like the stainless one. Might look really good as is, unpainted.

SJX426 

Vince Hoffmann Just found this thread. Nice job! How many are you going to make?
I did hunt for one for my daughters Pin but gave up. The bike drastically needed repaint but he badge is in really bad condition. We agreed that the "Patina" should be retained to capture the original condition. Note the paint next to the badge on the bottom right. The whole frame was like this.
P1000968, on Flickr

My Montello badge. No raised portions on the badge. Looks to be silk screened.
P1020145, on Flickr

randyjawa 

Needless to say but I will say it anyway, I did not remove my headbadge to measure the rivet location holes. That said, fitted to the curve of the head tube, I get 32.5 mm or roughly 1.29 inches. Hope that that is a help and hope that my poor old eyes really saw what I think they saw. The badge, itself, is pretty much smooth with no embossing of any kind, although I can feel slight variations between colors.

himespau 

super cool. Is riveting the new ones in going to be a major pain?

xiaoman1 

Great job, I hope that you will share the process, I believe there are a few members that could benefit from the process....I assume the measurement you used took the curve of the badge into account.
Please post the final results and installation etc.
Ben

randyjawa 

I did not take the curve into account. I have no idea of how to determine that (actually, I could probably puzzle out the formula, but so can anyone else). I used a pair of Vernier Calipers, targeting the center of each rivet head. Best I know how to do.

Vince Hoffmann

Thanks for the kudos folks! The badges are photo etched. I spent about 3 weeks making the artwork in AutoCAD then imported the artwork into Illustrator to make the masks which is basically a reverse image. My first attempt in steel look fantastic, but even as thin as it is, the metal won’t easily bend. I can’t photoetch aluminum, so I used brass instead.
I can make as many as I like but i don’t know if Pinarello would take issue with me making replicas of their badges... any lawyers out there who can give me advise? 😊

here’s a picture of the painted badge... I currently have 6 of each, steel and brass And it takes about 1 week to make a new batch of 6.

SJX426 

Very cool! Better than the original! I like!

xiaoman1 

Nice!

P!N20

This just keeps getting better. How do you bend them and do you do that before or after painting?

Man, I wish you did this before I restored my Montello!

It’s no different to reproduction decals which are legitimate businesses. I don’t think Pinarello is losing out on too much money because a handful of retrogrouches replace their head badges!

xiaoman1 

I would bend and apply before the paint has a chance to really harden, lessening the chance of cracking.
Really looks good.
BTW I guess if the paint "cracks/peels" it will make them appear original...we all know how to tell if the bike we are looking at is a real PINA,
don't we?
Ben

Vince Hoffmann

so I was also concerned about that but it turns out that enamel paint is very forgiving, even when dry. I bent the one below over a wood dowel with no issues.

repechage

Those turned out very well.
back in school I used a photo-etched Process to create “molded in” identification for a few product design visual models.

that source vanished, they etched into a magnesium plate, that started about .060” thick. I set the plate into the model. Appeared very authentic.


art was done the old way, by hand, photo reduced and a reverse neg providing the basis for photo printing the resist on the plate.

I must laugh, my garage was broken into one night and tools were stolen, one was a model of a saber saw I did- thief must have been very bummed when he plugged in the model thinking it was going to work, I tried making it real in heft and the trigger control even had a spring return feel. The guy bypassed my Masi track bike frame hanging on the wall! Small favors.

good work.

Vince Hoffmann

Thank you! The fully painted badge in the pics has some issues because it is my experimental copy, but the others are turning out very nice. I admit it was (and still is) a lot of effort to produce these but I think its fun and a challenge!
Good to know your Masi remains in your possession, nobody ever accused a thief of being smart!

Mtbric

Any chance you may be selling these? If so, I'll take one.

Vintage Schwinn

E-bay seller ( farrak) makes badges.
See #233653589450
See#233581217709
See#233780688382

farrak's badges are a simple way to instantly upgrade those old SEARS free spirits........just repaint them, buy a replica decal set from another, different E-bayer who is in the U.K. who produces near perfect replica decal sets of all the treasured classic European marques. Then add farrak's eyecatching badge to finish the brilliant transformation!

CyclingFool95 

Any idea how thick they are?

I think I'll be putting one of these on the next time I need to replace a head tube badge (my Litepseed Ultimate's badge fell off): https://www.newbelgium.com/shop/30th...ry-bike-badge/

gkamieneski

I get 31.43mm on my Gavia TSX with my calipers.

CyclingFool95 

I meant the thickness of the material - is it tin foil or proper thick sheetmetal?