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Went in this morning with the aim of getting all the work done prior to painting. First thing was to have a dry-run on the fittings. Everything checked out fine. The front mech is close to the bottom of the braze-on, but that's OK as I'm running a 50T outer, which is as small as it'll ever need.
Then it was onto the head badge. And for a head badge you need some sort of identity. My inspiration came from Norse myth. Odin had two ravens, Munin and Hugin, who flew across the earth each day to bring him news. That's what bikes represent to me, they provide you with the opportunity to seek out new discoveries and bring home tales of adventure. So Munin Bikeworks it is.
The head badge is a stylised representation of a Raven's beak and the feathers at the wingtips. I sketched it and cut the badge using a dremel and hand files. Shaping it to wrap the head tube was a case of putting into a tube block and using a scrap length of head tube as a former. Squashed up into a vice it matches the radius well.
Here's a composite from sketch to completed badge.
And finally, a close up of the badge itself. It's stainless steel, so will be polished and then masked through the painting process.
I hope you've enjoyed the thread so far, and when I have it painted and built I'll show some more pics. Can't wait to try it.