[Competition] Decorate Your Metal!

[LordEoin]

Wanted to customize a bit of your brewery?
Want to make it look real pretty?
Thinking of etching controls, measures, instructions, etc onto your stuff?
Has this thread made you want to try etching something?

Well here's your chance to get to it and show everyone your methods and results to win a sweet little trophy and bragging rights!

Overview:
Customize a metal piece of brewing equipment, it doesn't matter what, from your favorite spoon to your keggle.
You can use whatever methods you want (eg, etching, engraving, beating, sanding, cutting, welding) but the result needs to be on bare metal.
Document your process on your own thread.
Winner will be chosen by impartial judges, based on both the end result and the contents of your thread (is it helpful? descriptive? clear? etc)

Prize:
Sweet trophy and bragging rights!

Provisional Rules:(may need editing depending on feedback)
You must be in Ireland/Northern Ireland
You must be an NHC member
You must do the work yourself (no bringing it to a professional friend for cleaning, cutting, etc)
Tag your thread [Decorate Your Metal] NAME_OF_PIECE_OF_EQUIPMENT, NAME_OF_ENTRANT (eg [Decorate Your Metal] Stainless Paddle, LordEoin)
Competition will run from April 1st to April 30th. Threads will be locked on may1st until a winner is picked.

Let the Games Begin!

[magnethead]

  you're appealing to the artistic side of a homebrewer/beer nerd which seems to attract the Engineering type, who normally doesn't have the slightest bit of an artist in him  and doesn't have a great  handle on english,,, writing sentances waay too long. 

Having said that, great Idea I was planning on doing something to the outside of my Kettle, but good Beer stensils are hard to come by and you have to be quite arty to make up your own

I remember someone misses on this forum was quite the artist, he'll probably have an unfair advantage LOL

[LordEoin]

I suppose you could print onto acetate and cut your stencils out with a stanley knife. Not too technical 

[DEMPSEY]

I have a stainless steel conical that has no markings on it so plan to do it.

[magnethead]

I have a 3 foot stainless mash paddle that's too big for my mash tun.. 20 euro was too much of a deal on it.. I might try something down the shaft of it..
Are acetate sheets not those hard plastic sheets used for presentations , it would be hard to stick them onto a curved surface so no liquid would seep under it? They normally use that vinyl sheeting on YouTube/states but I don't know where you'd get it locally... Might try that blanch craft shop again ;-)
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[LordEoin]

I'm thinking of decorating the lid for my keggle and adding some handles etc.

would somewhere like halfords have vinyl sheeting?

[Tom]

May I pimp a gas cylinder with some nice vinyl stickers?
Maybe: "CO2 for Cask Breather - Bite me, CAMRA"

[LordEoin]

You may pimp the hell out of it with stickers, and I'm sure it will turn out very well.
But I don't think it would be suited for this competition.
Unless of course the bare metal factor was something like sanding, polishing and buffing your cylinder to a mirror finish before adding the stickers 

[Tom]

Oh, it would be shiny alright. I'll post it anyway, and if it fits the category you may judge it. Otherwise just fob me off with a 13 and I'll try harder next time!

[LordEoin]

lol

[Tom]

So, who won this? Because if the competition is still on I have an totes amazeballs idea.

[LordEoin]

oops, I completely forgot about this!
There was only 1 entry as far as I remember with a lovely metal growler.
I must sort it out. Thanks for reminding me.
And sure crack on with your idea anyway, I love learning from this kinda stuff

[magnethead]

Keep it rolling  These Comps need a minimum number to be worthy of the name Comp  :

I'm thinking of getting a 3D printed stensil for beer bottles, very handy way of labeling with sand blasting and he effect is good. (Not Metal but something that came out of this comp)