Re: Gauge Faces / Speedo Tach Decals - Now for DanMoto/Acewell gauges

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Here is the CB360 layout. Colors are interchangeable and logos can flip sides. More to come... once I get this "work" done....

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BCBarker said:
Here is the CB360 layout. Colors are interchangeable and logos can flip sides. More to come... once I get this "work" done....

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allright, I will take a set of these.
 
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Went "semi" Mono-chromatic" on a set of CB360 faces for sbaugz. Available for any set of gauges. If it's not a CB350, CB350f, or CB360, you have to send me your faces first.

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BCBarker said:
Went "semi" Mono-chromatic" on a set of CB360 faces for sbaugz. Available for any set of gauges. If it's not a CB350, CB350f, or CB360, you have to send me your faces first.

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Sweet
Payment sent
Thanks
 
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A couple more designs I've been playing with.

wwii Battleship inspired:
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if you prefer a less rusty version, I can do that too.

And a different version with the Japan Flag:
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Colors can be changed to your liking.
 
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supposed to be working. Wound up doing a mono-chrome version for the CB350F faces. ;D

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sbaugz Sent some pics of his faces installed. Looking Great! Soon to make up CB750 faces and a Black Ring "CB350"

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BCBarker said:
Here is the CB360 layout. Colors are interchangeable and logos can flip sides. More to come... once I get this "work" done....

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Just sent the money, I would like this one
 
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three more CB360 designs. CB350 and CB750 designs to come later today.

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If you are thinking you want a set, Let me know. I have an order going in on Friday.
 
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Hey these look great, looking for a set for a cb550, something lighter, kinda old school feel. Got anything?
 
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you'll have to mail me you faces, or scan them and tell me the outer diameter. I can certainly come up with something.
 
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How about a classic sand-cast green look for the DOHC supersport and Bol D'Or? I could use a set with that look. Also, faces for mini pots? You know, the mechanism in all of these clocks is quite small, you could pop 'em into something half the diameter of the standard clocks. So, some mini clocks built to look just like the big ones, that would kick ass. I'm also thinking of doing some kind of dual clock face, with the counter-sweeping needles, like on an old Suzuki Hustler 250. I forget the model. But you know the type I mean. I was thinking of building that into the top of my headlight bucket. Also, I am interested in putting a two needle clock on my C70 passport scooter, so I could run a tach'. I'd need to redesign the whole pot in there, but it would be cool if I could get one in there. I guess there are about a hundred different versions I have in mind, but the main one I have in mind is the green sand-cast type mini clocks, and the two needle clock. You know, with some ingenuity, you know how there are some clocks that have a ratio that's close but not the same? Well, they'd work IF the clock face's increments changed at the same ratio as the gear ratio in the speedo drive is changed. That way, people could use much more common, cheap, freely available mechanisms on their bikes. SO, assuming that every one of my big ideas would wind up being copied like, at least a hundred times, then you'd wanna whip 'em up really cheap for me, wouldn't you? Maybe even free.... And, thinking about how one could make mini-clocks, or heck even big assed Flava Flav clocks ha ha, I mean SMITHS clocks, like on old Vincents. I heard that the first blackshadow's clock was made from an alloy sauce-pan. No joke. Well, one neat idea would be to make a gauge face in a commonly available size, like say, campbell's soup can, or traveller's coffee mug. You know all of those mugs out there with the faux chrome trim and stuff? You could take that lid, cut out the plate in it with the little tippy slide back and forth opening, you cut that shit out and make a piece of plexiglas the same size. Not hard. You could even have it made from glass, it'll just cost a couple bucks, and you'd have to get it from a glass shop with an experienced cutter who's got a good circle cutter. Not common these days. I used to drill a lot of holes in the custom aquariums I used to build, for plumbing. Some of the pieces from those holes would be big enough for a smiths clock, just an inch thick so overkill really. How about finding a domed lens type glass and then making everything else to suit it? A magnifying glass! Ha ha. Then you just find stuff the same diameter. Like I say, I like the idea of the coffee mugs with all of the faux chrome on them. Any which way you slice it, the missing element in all of that, is the well designed, accurate, and professional looking gauge face. And they'd just have to be affordable in the one-off type of manufacture. So, could we expect to pay through the nose for a one-off? For an odd size?

-S.
 
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I can make whatever you want. No upcharges unless you can't wait for me to put a design in with a bunch of other orders. I try to get a handful of orders when I send them to the printer because, the more you print, the cheaper it is. If i have to print a single set of faces it's more expensive per face than printing 20. I need a scan of your gauge face and the outer dia. to get started.
 
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BCBarker said:
three more CB360 designs. CB350 and CB750 designs to come later today.

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Can you due the white/orange with CL350 in place of CB360?
 
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sure. I am working on a few designs including CB750 and a CB350. I hope to post those today/sunday but work is a beast right now. Follow this post and it will tell you when i post new ones.
 
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When you say "I need a scan of your gauge face...." Do you mean that the scan is where the increments come from? Or can you calculate that stuff based on the ratios and what-not? I only ask because in order to do the double needle thing you might need a different tach drive and speedo drive paired to inappropriately matched mechanisms, in order to change a 270-320 degree sweep to a sweep of 180 degrees or less, that way you can put the two needle pivots in opposite corners of the face and they sweep toward one another, etc. Maybe they could pass at different elevations like hands on a watch.... I'm just curious. You'd need a scan of the gauge face for a couple different reasons, one would be needing the FONT for the numbers and letters etc, and the another would be to put all of the lines and increments in the proper locations. I do realize, swapping out all of the colours and wondering whether they'd match a paint job vs calculating the lay-out of the whole thing and sweating about people complaining of traffic tickets is like ... a whole other kettle of fish! Ha ha. I mean, I'd be cool about paying a little bit extra for that type of thing. It's just one of those "dream project" things that would make the difference between the bike of my dreams and feeling a tad lack-luster about the whole thing. Not that it depends on "luster". More like patina. Ha ha. What would be really really cool, is if you could make them look all aged. Maybe with some of that wrinkle paint done on the lettering, or with slightly faded colouring, or uneven fading etc.... There was something I saw recently where they had a contest based on this type of thing. Hmmmm.... It was somebody on the speed channel who was making vintage aircraft bezels aha it was these things: http://www.classicinstruments.com/seriesdetail.aspx?SeriesCode=BZ
And they had this page full of old second-hand vintage stuff that's just beautiful. Of course, if a person could reproduce this type of thing they might as well get into the art fraud racket. Ha ha. It's good inspiration at least. Let's see here.... Oh man, their Sky Drive is a pretty ridiculous thing, your speedo run by sattellite good Lard that's techno over-kill. And probably a stupid idea. "Sorry Officer, I guess there must have been some electro-magnetic interference!" ha ha. Oh, here it is!
http://www.classicinstruments.com/index.aspx?documentID=classicboneyard
THIS:
https://www.classicinstruments.com/index.aspx?documentID=boneyarddesotoc
is the type of thing I lust after. See, there's one with four mechanisms in one bezel. Okay, it's more like what I'd want for an alarm clock, whereas on my bike I want something like the 60's Suzuki Hustler 250 two stroke.

But I had a brain fart while I was looking at this thing last time. It turns out, on their contest, they just wanted decals designed. But what I was thinking about, would be this: Okay, picture those gauges they used to have where the dial moved in the back-ground and the needle stayed the same. I've seen it on an old speedo, never could figure out how it was done. But this is a little more elaborate. Anyway, you could have something like a very larg diameter ring spinning in the background only you see a very small portion of that ring, and if the ring that moved were completed it would extend right out into the cab or down through your legs, etc. And this would be accomplished through the use of something like a metal tape measure strip, only it's cut like a conical taper, or in a sense you make that whole ring of numbers but you cut it at one point and roll it up on two conical pins. The pins are set in a fixed carriage, and the tape between them is pulled across a smooth domed surface that keeps it taught. Then, the two pins are geared to run semi-synchronously with a spring tension to keep the tape taught without screwing with elaborate means of keeping the ratios from getting out of whack when one pin is all spooled up and the other isn't, kind of like an audio cassete tape deck drive. If they could whip up something like THAT, and put in all sorts of different classic fonts and designs and the like, hell it would be cool to put in NEW autos. Of course, everybody is all enamoured with liquid crystal bull-shit these days, so it's a bit of a pipe dream. But just think of it, if you DID do it electronically, it would just have two high-end high-speed step-drive motors and a chip to run the thing. That would be techy enough for the auto industry people to think they're competing with the Japanese. Ha ha. A good brain fart though. Next time, I'm gonna read their contest rules before I strain my brain like that. Ha ha.

The main trouble I am gonna have making the gauge I wanna make, is finding the glass and bezel to suit it. So, I've been looking around at semi-vintage clock radios and shit. If I could find one of those old clock radios like I used to have, with the little number plates that flipped over and over, then I'd probably just put THAT on the bike and figure out a way to run IT as my speedometer. Ha ha. But yeah, I need some kind of oval shape, maybe flat on the bottom, a half circle with rounded corners, etc.

-S.
 
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yeah... I can make it pretty, or grungy, or faded looking, or whatever. I would just need direction from you and dimensions. Once you break into the "Custom/ One Off" world, you would need to pay me for my time. I only charge $20 for the other decals cause I can sell multiples of the same design and make a little scratch to buy more parts and bikes. If it's something totally custom, it comes down to time. Since I design stuff for a living it's hard for me to do it for free, but I could certainly give you a deal on creating something cool. I like creating cool shit.
 
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Blue CB360 faces as requested.

More to come as the order is going in today. Stay tuned!

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