Laser Engraving Bike Parts For Retro Bike Builds - XTool F1 

Making your own head tube badges would be seriously cool

I’d really like to see a paisley pattern etched onto a mech hanger 😎

That's amazing..... You could do bike badges on coloured anodized plate like that first card you did to stick on our bikes. It would be awesome to replace replace boring old damaged brand stickers on your head stock :D (Metal Save Old Bikes Head stock badges there's an idea...🤔) P.S id take a red one to replace my old brand sticker and make my bike POP! 😅lol jokes aside. I cant wait to see what you do next 😁👍

This is super cool. Your shop just got a massive upgrade.

This is how you grow a channel.

K...How about you take thin sheet metal and engrave 2nd life, proper crusty, bulky boys, what have you, within say, a 2 inch by 3 inch rectangle. Snip it out and using an old, bare headtube as a mandrel form into a curve with a rubber mallet. Now you've got a headbadge you could mount with a little J B Weld.

From a business pov, if you're planning to make batches rather than one-off custom jobs, top-caps are a very universal product, i'e modern road bikes, hybrids and MTBs all have 1 1/8 top caps, no matter the size of the bottom bearings They're also not really structural, once the headset is preloaded and the stem tight on the steerer you could remove it as it's not (supposed to be) bearing any load, so even if you have a high performance bike, a BrandX top cap will function just as well as a Chris King. A mate of mine had access to a laser cutter (for thin materials, mostly card and plastic I think?) at work in his last job. At higher power settings it could cut through layers on top of aluminium at least (paint, anodising etc) so we bought some plain black 1"1/8 BrandX top-caps from CRC and made some custom ones, both my bike's now say "Wonble Till I Die" 👍 Edit: If you do one-off jobs on custom components you'll find you spend a lot of time setting up the machine/alignment each time. If you want to sell bespoke top-caps you can make a jig that will work with all top caps, holding it in the same place every time, all you have to do is change the text/font in your designs, maybe tweak the kerning and send the vector data to the machine.

This is absolutely ridiculous, time to get a laser engraver 😂

That is pretty cool, that is mate 👍

Fun video,fun stuff!,I'm ordering 2 key chain opener immediately!! 😉👌thanx mate,cheers!!

So sick keep it up

see if you can get anodized dork discs

That's such a great idea ! Keep it up Would love to see some forks

Epic 💪

An etched raw frame could look amazing!

Looking good

How good would some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics look? Like scarabs, dudes with jackal heads etc.

As a hobby framebuilder, this is very interesting. I’d love to be able to etch a logo on a head tube or down tube.

Nice one, bruv

I would like it for accent parts like. Bar stem caps, grip caps, chain stay chain protector, headbadge... I like to name my bikes, so maybe a top tube nick name badge. Super cool adition to bike customization

If you do a seat post, you could make a cradle for it to hold it level and simply rotate the post if you have a design which wraps around?

Craig where did you buy the spanner its sick. love all ya buids by the way you could make etch badge for bikes and sell em 👍

I was starting to be a bit nervous at 12pm

do brake levers - maybe even plastic ones??

Yeah those cranks do look sik, it's got to be said.

I’m not saying but I’m saying you’ve got a saddle, you could do a cow print. Hell even could sit on your own face 😂

Seatposts ARE boring as hell!!!! 😂😂😂😂 Sick!

Doing a head badge directly on the headtube would be a challenge for geometric reasons on all but the largest frame sizes, but you could of course do custom head badges. Different medium and scale, but Blue Lug here in Tokyo do handlebar wraps and chain protectors using various grades of nylon cord. The results are gorgeous. www.youtube.com/@bluelugbikeshop

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Mmm, vanity.

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