Oh. My. Gosh... Merlin fully engraved Cyrene
Make sure you check out the close-ups of the bottom bracket, etc, and click on the link to download the high-res image (inserting it here made if freaking huge).
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Oh. My. Gosh... Merlin fully engraved Cyrene
Make sure you check out the close-ups of the bottom bracket, etc, and click on the link to download the high-res image (inserting it here made if freaking huge).
Drooooooool.....
OMG!!!!!!
sigh!
Well, that's one way to deal with ti's trouble holding paint...:D
wow...
wow! Engraved!
What good is the internet if you don't get a little porn now and then?
Tam knows the best sites;)
(I'm almost ashamed to admit how many times I've come back to this thread to look at those pictures.:o )
We all have different tastes. Though I can admire the work involved, that engraved bike is not something I would want at all. It reminds me of one of those gaudy embossed Western style horse saddles meant for parades or something. :cool: ;) Just not my style.
I like plainer lugs on steel bikes, too. I've seen really fancy lugs with curly Q shapes that I find just too fussy and frilly.
I have a couple of beautiful banjos with very elaborate mother of pearl engravings. When I play them people always comment on them. When I play my plain banjos I feel a bit more comfortable, like I am connected with them, and I think people listen to my playing more instead of ogling my banjo. :D ;)
I can admire all the hard work though. I do wonder though whether that tubing was actually human hand engraved, or machine engraved using a template that automatically follows a pre-programmed design pattern.
I'd like it better if the engraved parts were enameled. I just don't care for grey/silver with no accents.
:p
I'm with Lisa on this one. Gee that's some gorgeous work, but it's a little foofy for my taste. On the other hand, just look at those beautiful welds at the head tube and bottom bracket--yum!
The parade saddle is accurate. That's exactly the way the site describes it.
Even without seeing the details I think it's a sharp looking bike.
Oh that's funny- I didn't even read that when I looked at the pictures! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
A friend of ours who lives 2 blocks from us makes engraved old fashioned muzzle loader rifles. He does the kind of freely imaginative engraving I really love:
http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BR-nosecapClose.jpg
http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BCCheeksideClose.jpg
http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BR-sideplateClose.jpg
http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BR-front-sightClose.jpg
http://www.tcurran.com/index.htm
Maybe if i get rich one day I can hire Tom to engrave me a steel bike with wild meadow plants and crickets and birds, like those I pass on my bike rides every day! :p :p
I guess it's what you grow up with. I grew up riding an engraved saddle - that's just the way saddles of certain era came - and learned to shoot on an incredibly elaborate gun. Both the saddle and the gun were/are functional, to the point of being abused and coming back for more. Not that I had anything to do with the abuse...:)
Come to think of it, my 1902 Singer treadle sewing machine has a great deal of ornamentation on it, too.
Personally, I'm glad that that sort of craftsmanship and ornamentatation is coming back, to some extent, it feeds my Baroque little soul.
I like the engraving being plain on the plain ti. (no paint) If you saw the bike from a distance you might not even notice there was any decoration, but as you got close you'd see it.
Yeah, I've got a baroque soul, too. I remember reading a story called "The Baroque Pearl" when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, and thinking "whoa, that's me!" Baroque it is!
I also grew up around tooled leather, I really relate to the (subtle) frilly on the functional.
(and someday I'll track down that story. Maybe it won't be the same as what I remember from 35 years ago, but that's ok.)
Ooh, ooh, I remember that story! I remember imagining the pearl, too, and what it must look like. Though I wouldn't say I have a baroque soul, I remember thinking that a baroque pearl must be so much more interesting than the plain, uniformly round pearls my mother wore.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Yes, it seems that virtually everything used to be more decorative than it is now. I, too, remember my grandmother's treadle-operated Singer (on which I learned to sew) with it's gold curlicues and pin stripes. Mmmmm. I read somewhere not too long ago that the trend now is toward toylikeness in many products, and I think that may be true--cute phones, colorful computers, even some appliances, like vacuum cleaners, have a toylike appearance. That bugs me to no end. In that sense, I guess I do have a baroque soul in that I long for the more mature decorativeness of the past. *sigh*
That's because of our short attention spans and the need to....Quote:
Originally Posted by Bad JuJu
Say, Lisa, do you think that buddy of yours can make a bunny for my handlebars...that way I'll really be chasing rabbits???
Email him! What have you got to lose? Tell him Lisa with the bike from down the street sent you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Regina
JuJu- I think our backgrounds shape the way we see things and what styles appeal to us. When you say "the more mature decorativeness of the past", I think of Victorian ornately patterned stuff influenced by a mix of the Oriental/Persian/Gothic craze from the turn of the century. To me that stuff is claustrophobic and frantic rather than mature, and i kind of like the "toy-like" simplicity of some 1950's and some kitchy modern things. So there you go- everyone likes different styles! :p