1st finished project in over 20 years

[Beaverslayer]

That's cool zman, how long did it take to make that?

Ken

[zman7458]

That's cool zman, how long did it take to make that?

Ken

Thanks Ken. theres a little story involved with that item and since I know we have some Harley guys on the forum I'll try to explain. right after I bought my bike I went online to see what I could find about the bike. I ran across a site called vrod forums which was just a bunch of folx who had vrods and shared information and stories about them, so I joined. the forum had a store where they sold (for a fair price I might add) about ten different items that had to do with the vrod which the members had come up with. now the reason they did this was because Harley didn't (and still doesn't) make hardley any items like shirts or jackets that had the vrod name or logo on it. so one day the owner of the site posted a message stating that he had received a letter from Harleys lawyers stating that they had to take the items with the vrod name on it out of the store, not only that but he had to change the name of the forum to something that didn't have vrod in it. well to say the least we were pissed and some people even went so far as to take anything that had the Harley name off their bikes (or at least threatened to). so thats when I decided I would make my own emblem without the Harley name on it for my bike. also when Harley was in the process of trying to make their drag bike motor into a street worthy dependable engine they contracted Porsches engineers to redesign the engine to their specs (not the first time Harley had used Porche to help them with an engine design by the way). so knowing that I decided I would marry the vrod emblem with the porche emblem ( I had seen something similar before, but couldn't find it) and this is what I came up with. so now if you see a vrod going down the road and notice a porsche emblem on it, you know the inside story. but to answer your question, if you don't count the time fiddling with it on the computer, I would guess about 10 hours to make the finished product. theres a few of them that I made out there on the street, but to be fair to Harley I didn't sell them, I gave them to forum members who had seen them and wanted one. it just seemed kind of poetic to me.

[SCOUTER]

Z-man- Beautiful job! Congratulations on coming full circle!

[zman7458]

Z-man- Beautiful job! Congratulations on coming full circle!

Thanks Scouter, I got alot of the basics from scout camp and school shop class. it's a shame that most schools don't even have a shop program anymore. I feel like our kids are being deprived of an important part of a well rounded education with out it, oh well at least they can still learn how to play football eh?