Hey guys, I was just out in the shop messing with my recently completed cnc milling machine and i thought it was prime time for some fiero content. I whipped this emblem up real quick and cut it on the mill. It is a .005 relief carving of the famous emblem in 1/4 inch aluminum. I had some of the settings less than ideal so it took quite a few hours to run but it came out fine. I can also cut this as a line drawing and have done so in another small piece of 1/4 inch. This is starting to get fun!!! hope you like it, still gotta paint it and polish the aluminum. I gave it a slight brushed finish for the pics tho... peace
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Wow man, name my price really?!! I guess you guys like the emblem.... Nice thing with CNC is that once you make one, making more is a breeze.... I was trying to come up with some cool ideas for the car using the cnc mill and I am gonna hafta think about what I can make. If you guys like these I could make more of course. My plan was to highly polish the aluminum high spots and then paint it with some enamel in the low spots wiping away the high polished spots and then putting it on the car somewhere.... I was also thinking it would be cool to machine this into the intake of my 3800 sc supercharger body somewhere. I was also playing with the Fiero text logo to see what I can do with it...... right now I gotta get my clutch master and slave replaced so I can rely on this amazing car to get me around... would there be any interest in these seriously? peace
Dude with that CNC machine theres all kinds of stuff you could make that the people here would buy.. hood emblems, quater panel emblems, intake manifold emblems, or even custom ones.
But as a start, nice shiny new aluminum hood emblems would be pretty sweet!
You could have a nice little side internet buisness there with that machine man, make some more fiero stuff and show the members here, and if your work is good, im betting you'll have a bunch of buyers before you know it.
First get a better camera and take some better pictures so people can get a real good look at the quality of your work.
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Well the only thing is to put the sizes you can make plus stainles would be sweet. I'm thinking if you made one the size as the hood emblem they should go for 20 or so
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Hood emblems huh.... I suppose I would make them from like 1/8" blanks and then you would hafta bend them slightly in the middle to fit the hood no? are the factory ones that way, mine is missing so I just cannot say...
The machine is more than capable of making some cool stuff, I make parts for airguns with it and i recently completed my own homebuilt Competition air rifle... It has a custom sidewheel scope with a cnc machined sidewheel on it. Here is a pic or two.... peace
bummer man, tried to post pics and it keeps saying the connection was reset by host? what gives? peace
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Yea man if you have a machine to work with then you can get money in your wallet really fast. See I have a very creative mind and when I seen that I'm like wow. You could make fiero emblems for dashes as well. I would like to type more but I'm doing it all from my cell and it sucks lol.
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I would like to type more but I'm doing it all from my cell and it sucks lol.
You have internet access in a jail cell? You must have worked for the government and committed some kind of white collar crime? .. BTW Pete, put me down for one of those hood ornaments if you decide to sell em..
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You have internet access in a jail cell? You must have worked for the government and committed some kind of white collar crime? .. BTW Pete, put me down for one of those hood ornaments if you decide to sell em..
Lol not a jail cell a cell phone you nub hahahahahaa. Its all good humor.
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Pete Matos Member
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see im always right lol. so far how many requests do you have now 3-5? not including emails you prolly got. you can make a nice dash pad one as well that has fiero,fiero gt, fiero 3100, fiero 3400, fiero 3.8 supercharged. there is really no end to this. if i had that machine i could retire in a month no joke. i think it would set a fiero off as well. ive got a ton of ideas if your interested email me
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I would be extremely interested if you make it a good hood emblem. Also, a hood emblem would go nice with some sail panel emblems Even if the hood doesn't work out, I'd still like one just to have. It looks amazing! If you sell ythese for $20, as said by the guy a few posts up, I'm sure you'd be selling them as fast as you can make em.
Well guys, I really did not post this to try to sell them. I built this machine over nearly two years time and I have now learned how to use it. I certainly would not mind making a few bucks with it. I think that it would be hard to make them for $20.00 each, the machine runs for some time to get that fine engraving inside. There are other ways to do things tho and I have some ideas. I just spent a lot of time talking to a few nice fellows on here on the phone and got some ideas. Lemme think this thru and I might surprise you with some cool items for our favorite car.... The machine is very accurate and cuts beautiful with full flood coolant and a high speed spindle so it is more than capable of machining some rather complex parts in full 3d. However the operator is still learning how to program the 3d stuff. This was 2.5D of course and is realtively easy to do. My wife is maybe getting a Fiero GT this weekend if I can make a decent deal on the car and I am sure it will need stuff and I KNOW I am gonna be needing stuff for my fiero so this might be a way to help us get what we want for our new toys... Thanks for all the kind words and again, let me see what I can come up with... peace
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grkboy707 Member
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Yeah man, still working on some ideas. If you have anything specific in mind gimme an email at Matospeter@charter.net I just bought some new tooling for my milling machine and it is less than desireable, the runout is pretty bad and I am gonna be sending it back asap. I have found another supplier that sells some very nice tooling.... albeit it is a little more expensive but it will be worth it for a great runout figure on the smaller engraving cutters I am using.... thanks for your interest peace
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Wow man, as I said before I really did not put these pics here to sell anything but it seems like a lot of you like what you see... I am gonna try to get something made to post that I think I could make reasonably priced. Then I will see what you think about it and maybe I will make a bunch.... This one is nice but it is outta 1/4 inch aluminum. I have a bunch of 1/4 inch stuff laying around here and I could make a bunch of these easily but not sure what you would do with them that thick... Of course I could mill it down and make a 1/8 inch thick one but we will see.... Thanks guys and please be patient, I have a fulltime job and kids and everything else as I am sure a lot of you do as well... time is priceless!!! peace
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grkboy707 Member
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The machine is more than capable of making some cool stuff, I make parts for airguns with it and i recently completed my own homebuilt Competition air rifle... It has a custom sidewheel scope with a cnc machined sidewheel on it.
More pics of the air gun! I absolutely love cool projects.
That's perfect! I just had an idea the other day to make that exact piece and put them on the lower fender where newer GM cars have that little GM badge. But I don't have a CNC, so when are you going to sell these?
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Pete Matos Member
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Hey thanks guys, yeah as I said I did build this machine over about a year and a half time period. It has taken no small amount of learning to be able to use it and NO small amount of money to build it but it is a very nice machine all servo driven closed loop cnc with a belt driven high speed spindle and quick change tooling. I am still working on these as a three piece package two small ones for the side windows or wherever you want to stick them and one that I am trying to get to fit exactly into the stock nose location. This is gonna take a little while to get done but I am trying to do the computer work in my spare time on this as well as other projects.
The airgun was a long term project for me and is a high pressure pcp pre charged pneumatic air rifle. It is a competition rifle that shoots 10.5 grain precision lead pellets at around 900 fps. It can of course shoot faster than that but for precision 50 -60 yard competition shooting that is about optimum. IT is charged with a firefighter scba tank that holds 4500 psi. The gun is filled to 3000psi with a regulator and then filled gun will fire around 65 consistent shots until it needs refilled./ It only takes about five seconds to refill it from the tank. I have been shooting Field Target Competition for many years now and had always wanted to build my own rifle. This gun has not yet been shot in a competition but it will probably be this year. I just completed it this past fall and was not ready for the Nationals when it arrived so I had to shoot another rifle I have. It does seem to exhibit very good accuracy comparable to my other competition rifle that was manufactured. THese rifles are super cool, very quiet, and can be shot in the house!! I shoot across my living room and into my two car garage. It is around twenty yards and I shoot at tiny dots I make with a sharpie marker point on my target backer paper. Check out this link for more information....
I just got my new custom wheels in today and I gotta polish the chrome and install them on the car so I will be playin with the fiero tonight..... I hope to be able to offer these items to you guys soon.... Not trying to be a smartass but good things come to those who wait right!!! hahah
Peace
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grkboy707 Member
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Hey PEte, nice work! Its funny I stumbled upon this, I'm a freshman mech engineering major and right now we are doing g-code on the CNC, our next project is to mill anything to an aluminum plate that we want. Guess what I'm doing? A Fiero emblem lol. I'm guessing you drew yours up in Mastercam or inventor right? This is gonna be a pain in the ass to do with AutoCAD and g-code, but its gonna be worth it in the end!
Have fun wit the CNC!
Tom.
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would make really cool key fobs for owners too. wouldn't mind having a few assorted sizes for different projects on my GT. email or pm if you decide to sell them plz.
Grkboy, Funny you should ask again, I just finished posting a thread in the Mall section where I am trying to sell some hood ornament sized Fiero GT emblems in an effort to help raise funds for the medical bills that have been piling up for our good friend Rob Finley. He was in a VERY serious accident while attempting to tow a pair of fieros to his shop for a member of our local fiero club. I am gonna machine maybe three or four of these nice emblems for free, including the aluminum, pay for the shipping to the buyer, and do all the work myself. All one would have to do to get one is send a paypal to the Rob finley emergency fund that has been setup. I am going to be machining them over the next week and hope to have them ready to ship soon thereafter. I am asking that the buyer send $35-$40.00 to that account in exchange for one emblem. I am making absolutely Zero dollars on the parts and as I said I am covering the shipping myself. This is the only way that I can help Rob who I just recently met and was so kind to me. I just hope his health improves quickly so he can get back into the fiero world and back to his old self again. If you are interested I will not require any money to be sent until I have parts ready to ship. I will post pictures and progress of the project to that thread in the mall. I think it is called CNC machined Fiero emblems for sale..... for Robert...... So far it has not seemed to meet with the response that I had hoped but I do have a couple nice fellows that have said they want one when they are ready. This is an nice way for you to get the emblem you have been asking about and help a fellow Fiero nutball all at the same time..... peace
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Again, I did not post this to drum up business. I would however do some small parts runs to make a few extra bucks to help me fix up my fiero. If you have something specfic a simple DXF file would be just fine and I will do the cam work so I can control the way my machine runs the part..... What did you have in mind? peace
.. BTW Pete, put me down for one of those hood ornaments if you decide to sell em.. 
