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Looking to make a storage chest to go against the head board of the truck bed. What to dress it up a bit embossing Willys into it in the scale of the Willys Knight sign I have.
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I taped some clear plastic over the sign and then freehanded it to be more like the small Willys logo.
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I took elements from both logos to get what I liked the look of. I prefer the flowing script of the Knight sign for instance over the other one.
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Transferred from the plastic to the card underneath by just running over the script hard with a ball point pen and then going over the impression left in the card afterwards.
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Cut the script out and drew around it to get my embossing pattern.
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This is 304 stainless steel 0.7mm thick and still does not stretch well at all. I have done all I can reach with my bead roller and will turn the dies around to complete it.
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Finished going around using the art dies in my bead roller.
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I decided to stretch the embossing by hammering the letter face to get it to sit flat and correct the distortion.
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My steel table is made from two old rusted barbeque plates and the surface imperfections transferred into the hammered area as expected. One day I will have to get a new top for the table.
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Used a DA sander and a strip disc to help get rid of the tooling marks etc. Have to be really careful as is only 23 gauge so could easily make it too thin.
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A bit of finer sanding on the embossing to bring it out.