Was stolen in phoenix, az around 12/2x/08

If anyone comes across her, please LMK and hopefully they can be reunited!

 

Can't you just get them from the dealer?

 

not with the number on it...


someone please return #00095, thank you.

 

What ashame. goodluck with your search.

 

I thought that you could have the blank engraved.

 

You can but nobody has been able to correctly match the OEM fonts that I have ever seen.

 

I see a business niche for a CNC engraver.

 

You'd have to 'sample' an OEM badge and save the image (font) as a vector graphic.

Then you could edit the graphic to the real number and engrave on the new badge. The only real problem would be that you might need a few badges to sample so you could see the font style for each specific number that you were trying to recreate. A good macro picture would be all that is needed.

It wouldn't be hard, just time consuming setting everything up. I've done this before with other such items, so there is no reason why it couldn't be done to an OEM badge.

 

Just on my own I can produce the following numbers from my 2 badges

0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9

So you're lacking 2, 4, 7

I can shoot high res 22MP shots of mine as well. Would definitely be willing to help out.

 

I have the 4 & 7.

 

I have the 2, but don't have a decent enough camera to shoot a high quality picture of it..

 

holy ****ing teamwork. Now who's up for this task?

 

This will be so awesome if this gets figured out

 

I don't know anybody but I'll look around.

 

I have the "2" on my car.

And I have the use of a friend's equipment to do this, but honestly--it's a lot of work and time is not something I have a whole lot of right now. For something like this he normally charges $75/hour for converting raw data/images into something workable. The engraving aspect is the cheap and easy part. Anyone who has had to take a raw jpg and convert it into a clear and sharp vector graphic, you'll know what I am talking about.

If someone is really serious, I can direct you to him and probably get you a price break. All I would need is the new badge and a few members to snap HQ photos of their badges so we could get the 0-9 font style.

Obviously once everything is done it'll be cheaper for those in the future, so the best bet might be to get a few members who'd like this and chip in for the labor of digitizing everything.

If anyone is serious, let me know.

 

I wish I didn't suck in illustrator

I think the other thing that is going to have to be noted would be the spacing/sizing as well.

I would be 100% down to give you high res shots of the two badges I have (which contain 7 unique numbers) and have 2 blanks engraved if you propose this is done in a group buy.

 

I'd need pictures of 2, 3 and 4 digit SN's to get the spacing correct. Mine is 3 digits and has 3 different numbers, so it would be a good baseline.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but no matter the amount of digits they still use 0's for place holders, like mine are 98-0563 and 01-0318, but if you did want to get nitty gritty find somebody with a lot of 1's and see how that lines up. And you'd also have to account for 97's using a the 5 digit format w/o the year identifier.

 

I do believe your correct. Mine is 00-1334.

 

I hope this gets completed. I'd like to have someone to point people to. Right now I just tell people to buy the blank at the stealership then take it to a tropy shop or jeweler.

and for the efforts!

 

Indeed, I think I am going to end up doing that but would like to try to find the OG piece, just to have it

I know its still in the Phoenix area, since the wing was found up there

 

Maybe if you can find the person with the badge you can, ahem, you know. I'm sure your caR would appreciate the punisher-esque retribution.

 

I got a camera lined up for tomorrow.

 

I'll pop mine off tomorrow, they'll definitely have to be out of the car to get a good direct overhead shot.

 

Mines sitting in my bedroom.

I've been using 00-337 in mine for a while now, just to keep the og safe.