Lowrider Plaques...

Draw design on a flattened out Corn Flake packet then cut the shape out carefully (make sure parents supervise you using the scissors)

Now scrunch up some of this and place over your design:


Finally draw around the edges with a gold/bronze one of these:


Stand back and admire....... ;D












Sorry Dude, I don't actually know!!

and usually remain the property of the club not the guy who's car they are on

Yeah, I'm aware they're 'earnt' by whoever owns the car... and can lose it due to 'dizrespectz' etc. Fortunately, I don't live in Compton and don't have to worry about silly things like taking a 'cap' or two for my 'dizrespectz'

Bruce, though I'm extremely tempted by the Blue Peter technique you suggested... I am more inclined towards a non-wibblepoo approach heheh. I have a high-res design done (though not in CAD). I'll give youa buzz after work. A clue though would be good

When you said plaques, I was thinking more of the hot-rod club plaques, like these:



Those types of plaques are obviously cast in aluminium, then painted and then have the paint sanded/machined off the front face. I made one at a TAFE college once just to learn how to cast.

The type that you're displaying there looks considerably too detailed to be sand-cast, and most other casting methods would be too expensive for a one-off. As long as you can cut it out of flat plate though, the world is your CNC'd oyster! You would want to draw up the profile in some kind of CAD package to create an 'iges' file, and preferably do the tool path yourself as well, or get it done at mates rates. There would be quite a bit of CNC machine time involved if you wanted to make it too fancy, so unless you're getting it done as a favour it could get pretty expensive. The engraving would probably be cheaper to get done by hand, rather than CNC, as the time required to make a tool path for it would be intense, and even machining it would take hours. Everything is possible though. Assuming you didn't want the engraving done, any CNC water-jet, laser cutter or conventional CNC mill will do the job.

On a related note, I've just done a bit of a search for these after only just finding out about them. All I can say is, dear Lord the combination of gansta' speech and forum shorthand produces a terrible form of written English!! ;D ;D ;D

TBH, out of sheet stainless would suffice... then I could polish it all up nice & shiny.

The design is pretty simple too... a variation of this...

You're right, stainless would negate the requirement for chroming, but if the fabricator doesn't have 3mm stainless in stock - and it's doubtful they would - they'd have to buy an entire sheet, probably a good couple of hundred quid.

Therefore you'd have to look at a job lot for the economy of scale to work.

This is a Very Very interesting thread. Me and some of my mates are going to start a VW car lub and i want to have a plaque instead of a normal badge for my jetta. If any body is a whiz on the computer i don't suppose they could whip me up one pretty please? If not its no biggie.

I want it similar to the unity one:


And the name of my club is Outhaus Kustoms (outhouse customs) and on the right i want a sihouette of an outhouse too bit like this:


if someone could have put a mock up together id be very greatfull as i cant draw vey well and my mock ups look rubbish lol. i was going to get a CAD done then laser cut and gold plated. Love lowriders and cant afford one so a lowrider style plaque in my car is the closest ill ever get lol.

Its only the shape i like anyway so i shouldnt think their would be an issue as its completely different name and look. But ill take that into consideration. I dare say it will look completely different. As for font maybe something that looks rather German like? lol