Arrowhead Pride's name sealed in ..... brass?

by thewaffle1 on Nov 20, 2009 1:02 AM CST

Well hey its Waffle again.

I've been a member of AP for a while now, although i dont comment or post much. I thought i would make something as a "Token of appreciation" for AP and everyone who contributes to making it as great as it is. ( Pun intended )

This time I made a coin, I litterally made this coin completely out of scratch. This is a painfull process it takes.

-making a design (1day)

-cutting and rounding a a plexiglass coin (2 days)

-engraving design onto plexiglass coin (2 days)

-making a mould in sand with plexiglass coin (30 min)

-torching and pouring liquid brass into mould (10 min)

-Filing coin untill smoothe (2 weeks)

-Sanding coin untill Smoothe(r)/ shiny (1 week)

-rounding coin (2 days)

-buffing coin ( 4 days)

so basically this process sucked. But i think it was totally worth it, i hope you all do too.

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I know the letters arent perfect, but its freaking hard to get a perfect mould. I in no way am saying that i am a professional, or even any good at this. I just made it for fun, save the harsh critisism because i really dont care.

Long live the chiefs! and AP!

waffle out~

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iPhone cameras arent the best. o well

by thewaffle1 on Nov 20, 2009 1:04 AM CST reply actions

Thats pretty sweet

You could put that on a chain right?

Pretty cool either way.

by Lucasjr5 on Nov 20, 2009 1:19 AM CST reply actions

That's cool.

Appreciate your appreciation!

You should chime in more often.

Don't forget to be an AP-vangelist...Tell A Friend...

by woodman212 on Nov 20, 2009 1:43 AM CST reply actions

let's do some math

at approx 1 month of manufacturing and finishing time, plus raw material costs, minus some time as you get better at your processes, all you need is a few wealthy AP’ers to order them at about $2,000 a pop and you could have a pretty nice side job going there! With enough demand you could even get some scale going, maybe hire a high-schooler to help with the polishing, if you could fire out 5 of those in a month after a little lean manufacturing improvement, maybe some Six Sigma in there, you could slash prices and still be rollin in it!

Hey, it worked for the wolfpack T-shirts. Chris and Joel can’t be the only ones getting filthy rich off this site from beer-glove money.

by thehulk on Nov 20, 2009 8:58 AM CST reply actions

not that I'm bitter about the beer glove money

But I saw Joel the other weekend being driven around in his Rolls Royce and I thought that was just a bit excessive…

by thehulk on Nov 20, 2009 9:00 AM CST up reply actions

or outsource to the philipines like everyone else and really make some money!

by Lucasjr5 on Nov 20, 2009 10:10 AM CST up reply actions

That was cool, Waffle

AP has a forger now too.
Soon we will be totally self sufficient and the other 31 teams can go to He….

We Will kick at least 4 Teams Asses in 09
And Succop will be the Key in two of them. Washington & Oakland!
" Think and talk positive football off the field." Hank Stram

by Steve_Chiefs on Nov 20, 2009 8:52 PM CST reply actions

wow

26 days of your time really?

by CPT.Caveman on Nov 21, 2009 1:07 AM CST reply actions

i spent like 50 minutes on it each day..

by thewaffle1 on Nov 21, 2009 2:03 AM CST up reply actions

My bad

Forgot your age, so it’s a shop project.

by CPT.Caveman on Nov 21, 2009 10:03 AM CST up reply actions

yeah pretty much.

by thewaffle1 on Nov 21, 2009 10:46 AM CST up reply actions

Now get you a couple empty coffee cans,

an old compressor motor off a refrigerator, some old angle-iron, a pair of pulleys, some beach sand, and a couple worn-out fan belts. Weld the angle-iron into a frame, rig up the coffee cans to the pulleys and the motor, throw the sand and an unpolished coin into a can and plug ’er in. Voila – back yard tumbler.

No question. Otis Taylor should be in the Hall of Fame.

by hmills110 on Nov 21, 2009 2:21 AM CST reply actions