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All I want to know is, :wtf is that on the very left of the last pic. A foot rest of a barber shop chair?
 
yes, a 1959 koken president that i picked up a while back. i keep one around to sit in when my gets out of whack standing on that concrete floor for hours at a time. i had a 1921 koken & a 1959 paidar in the shop when it burned, but have to redo some stuff on them before they are useable again...

1959 koken
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1921 koken:
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1959 paidar:
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my 1901 koken thats in the house:
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cool, my great grandfather was a barber and had a shop in his house. He had a chair that (as my memory serves) looks like the 59...
 
Very cool! Would it be legal to leave them like this? Kind of the stealth look. Maybe a fine pin stripe to out line the letters, or a ghost shade of black on the letter?

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No...........I would get pulled over very quickly if the plates were left like that. Black/Yel, Blue/Yel or modern would be allowed. Nothing else.
 
"SELLERSRODSHOP" said:
got a little more done tonight. spent a couple hours smearing polyester putty with a razor blade in some of the non original wrinkles added over the years & sanding smooth. tedious work sanding between the letters & numbers to say the least. after i had most of that done, i threw them in with a set of 62 harley tins that i was spraying some high build primer on & added a coat. the better of the two tags is ready to wetsand & paint but still have a few small spots to address on the other one. i had to do ALOT of metal shrinking on the bad one as the metal had stretched & "oilcanned" when it was creased. with all the stampings, you really have to have a feel for how the metal needs to be worked to shrink instead of making it worse. i'm really happy with how these are coming along.
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Wow, I'm sure this is an almost exact quote from someone in Folsom Prison ca 1967....

...NOT!

Great work, man. As usual, Craig seeks out and gets the best. :thu Nice work
 
I have to ask. How do you get the correct yellow color for the numbers? I've seen a lot of restored plates and some of them don't have the correct yellow.
 
John,
Crusty sent a NOS plate to use as a sample to match. With Steve's painting experience, I'm sure he'll be able to get pretty
darn close to the correct shade.
 
"cmayna" said:
John,
Crusty sent a NOS plate to use as a sample to match. With Steve's painting experience, I'm sure he'll be able to get pretty
darn close to the correct shade.
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Well, it's not a NOS plate, but it's a nice lightly used plate.

Frank
 
"Opentracker" said:
I have to ask. How do you get the correct yellow color for the numbers? I've seen a lot of restored plates and some of them don't have the correct yellow.
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i just mix it until i get the right color. you just have to look at it & figure out what colors you need to add for a "toner".
 
They look fantastic. Too bad you couldn't have flattened out he A and made it a F in honor of JohnPro.
 
did a little lettering tonight. that california babyshit yellow is hard to duplicate. ended up mixing brown into yellow to get the proper shade (got that idea from looking in my drawers :hide) tried black first, but that turned it way too green. the brown did the trick.
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my camera interpreted some wierd stuff on these yellows. don't pay attention to the color difference as the camera is causing the difference. almost makes the original tag lettering look orange...
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hmmm....
these are turning out pretty nice, I wonder if Steve has made licence plates before.... while incarcerated with some Chicago politicians maybe...
 
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