Subject: Re: MAKING A FENDER ORNAMENT

From: [email-masked] (Ron Ginger)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 20:50:49 LOCAL

In article <[email-masked]> John Ward <[email-masked]> writes:
>From: John Ward <[email-masked]>
>Subject: MAKING A FENDER ORNAMENT
>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 19:28:24 GMT

>        Hi,
>        I want a chromed grizzly bear ornament for the 
>        front fender of my motorcycle.  I would like it to
>        be about ten inches tall, leaning, stepping and 
>        reaching forward attacking with an open mouth.
>        The bears feet should have threaded holes in 
>        them for attaching it to the fender.  This is for a
>        very special show bike with a Chevy 350 V8 that 
>        I built so it has to be top quality.  Does anyone 
>        know of someone that could create this for me, 
>        or failing that, how I should go about making it 
>        myself.
>                Thanks, John  

There was a woman  that exhibited at the WOODENBOAT show this past summer that 
made very neat cast brass or bronze boat ornaments. The basic process is lost 
wax casting- she made the original piece of carved wax, than casts them in 
bronze. This is standard jewelery technique, although your piece is a bit 
bigger thanmost jewelery.

sorry I cant find the name of the person I mentioned, but I think they 
advertise in Woodenboat- often show a boat fitting with a mermaid wrapped 
around it.

Ron Ginger
my signature is http://www.ultranet.com/~ginger

---

From: John Ward <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 19:28:24 GMT

Hi,