Originally Posted by AgStacker (Post 583887)

I'm not trying to compete with those plastic emblems, The purpose of this thread was to create the highest quality custom badges for my personal car, and the cars of any one who contributed significantly to the production. I do not intend to sacrifice quality what so ever. That means lots of cutting time on the machine, I'm trying to reduce that as much as possible but I can only go so far before it affects the look of the badge.

Bottom Line. If you really want a set of these badges you'd better start saving your lunch money.

Originally Posted by KaienZ34 (Post 583937)

Well just got finished beating up some high schoolers. Lunch money in hand and ready to go. HaHaHaHaHa

Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 583947)

The farther out I go from the city the fatter they get, so that's where all the lunch money is...

Originally Posted by Sibze (Post 584128)

Lol reading the lunch money comment kinda scarred me lol

how much are we talking??? Like $200's or like $500's give us an idea. If it's going to cost me less to fill my tank up with unicorn blood than I will need to pass and I am sure a lot of the people that have said they wanted one would do the same lol

Originally Posted by frost (Post 583412)

There would really be no reason I can think of to do both anodizing and powder coating. The benefits of anodizing a part (color, scratch resistance, strengthening, and protection from elements, including sunlight, rain, chemicals, etc) are pretty much rendered useless if a powder coating is applied on top of it.

Powder coating will provide all these benefits, with the exception of actually strengthening the aluminum alloy, and you will have more options of colors, and the colors will be more consistent.

Since the aluminum will not be in some sort of high abuse area, I actually think PC will be a better option for your particular application.

But to answer your question, anodize coatings, no matter how thick are still subject to cracking (known as crazing in the biz) under extreme temperatures because of the coefficient of expansion in aluminum (aluminum oxide is hard and brittle, the base metal is soft and malleable). So I would probably pick one or the other.

Originally Posted by Lemers (Post 584225)

First why worry about Nissan when using "their" embellum? They haven't went after AK and he is selling memberships and he is using the embellum.

Originally Posted by AgStacker (Post 585953)

The reason I wanted to both anodize and powder coat is to achieve two tone coloring, black and silver, So I was planing on anodizing the whole part hard clear and having the recessed area powder coated black.

I have seen some parts anodized two different colors, but they didn't turn out so well. As far as powder coating in two colors, I'm not sure if that's possible, please advise.

Originally Posted by AgStacker (Post 585958)

Like this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../Emblemblk.jpg

thanks Boost_lee for photoshop