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Posted by: Maltese Falcon Dec 25 2005, 01:59 AM

A friend of mine owns a snow/ skate board shop in L.A. (Westwood Bl.) and needed some ID on his building. After checking out all of the usual sign shops- he approached me with "What if you could bend me up a Hot Rod sign in 3" and chrome it ?"
I designed the calligraphy, fabbed it up and had a crane co. lift it into place.
At one time he had the entire building painted in flames- I guess the neighbors made him paint it back to white ;(
He actually polishes up the chrome once a year
Marty

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Posted by: smooth_eddy Dec 25 2005, 02:27 AM

Nicely done.......What kind of bender did you use? Greenlee? And did you do the welding? Is the pipe EMT? Eddy

Posted by: thesey914 Dec 25 2005, 03:55 AM

nice....think i would cross the road to go in.

Posted by: MecGen Dec 25 2005, 08:01 AM

That has to be the nicest sign I have seen in a long time.
Definately Old Skool

And I would cross the street and have a look inside.

+Karma
Later

Posted by: Bleyseng Dec 25 2005, 08:36 AM

Thats way cool....

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Dec 26 2005, 01:59 PM

thx for the props guys...the machine that I used for this job is a Teledyne Pines No.2 rotary mandrel bender. The mtl. is 3" od ,16 ga. cold roll tube, with a .005 inside flash control. Once the basic "Calligraphy" is bent , it's basically mitre cut, deburr'd and fit together on a straight edge jig.
Welding is on a Miller .035 MIG --just like making headers
Industrial size nickle chrome tanks "Just made it in" for this size sign !
I'll dig up a jpeg of another strange job order: A custom steel bed for one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Happy New Year !
Marty

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Dec 26 2005, 02:38 PM

Hey Frank K, check out the Chili Bed at www.madmetal.com
scroll thru the products and check it out. My nephew Shane (9146OG) does the specialty/ custom products out of our plant here in Glendale Ca.
Peace
Marty