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tiki shifter knob

Postby tiki dave » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:55 pm

well, here's my first try at a shifter knob... had these tiki statues laying around, thought it would be kool as a cast for a shifter knob so i cut his head off... heres some pics on the way it went
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had the tiki seated on clay in the bottom of the glass to hold it straight up
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... dont use a glass... tends to be a lil hard to pull out... lol found out the hard way but it was all i had at the time
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had to cut the mold down the center to make it a 2 piece instead of a one piece mold... one piece didnt work so well when trying to pull it out
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby jeremylawson » Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:26 pm

Hell yeah!
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby tiki dave » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:19 pm

more
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throw this one in, dont have this one threaded
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some air bubbles on it, but the next couple times i casted finally got it down... just gotta make me a rig to keep the threaded incerts straight
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incert with threads
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby jeremylawson » Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:56 am

That's damn sweet.
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby tiki dave » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:34 pm

well started on some tail lights... tried a different mold thats suppose to be stronger but so far after 24 hours, looks to be a complete waste of money, mold stayed soft and stuck to the tail light... i did 2 at a time so, im gonna let the other one set for another 12-24 hours and see if that changes anything...but if not, i got another tub of the original molds i did with the tiki head, i no that shit works...
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby jeremylawson » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:21 pm

Any updates on this?
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby tiki dave » Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:32 pm

yea, the "stronger mold" turned out to be shit, so i went to the stuff i made the shift knob with and it worked out pretty good, i actually made a tail light with a frankenstein face which i think couldve turned out better but its alrite... just somethin to mess around with, but the next ones im just goin to make the regular tail lights.. i have 28 ford, 38 chevy, and 37 ford, and 59 caddy lenses... but heres some pics of the frankenlight..it was a 37 ford tail light...
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put the light in a caddy tail light housing, lol looked alrite... actually looks kinda kool if you put it inside the caddy tail light, a little different
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby jeremylawson » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:43 am

Oh man, I like that Frankenstein face one. Keep up the awesome work!
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby jeremylawson » Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:34 pm

Any updates?
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Re: tiki shifter knob

Postby tiki dave » Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:18 pm

nah jeremy, been doin this army thing a lot here lately, moved to a new house couple months ago, then had a month and 1/2 unit exercise goin on, and just got back last week from being in fort sill... and im kinda working on building a homemade cnc to machine small parts and thinking on blueprints... i do need to bust out the molds and make some more, got a couple ideas for some new tail light designs..
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