Advice on restoring these Zoom Bar Ends

[Neilios]

I'm in the process of restoring my old Arthur Caygill MTB: http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... p;t=381597

I've hunted high and low for a NOS set of Zoom Overend bar ends, with no joy.

This leaves me with the difficult job of tidying these up:

Photo 22-10-2018, 21 28 08 by Stocktonator, on Flickr

I'm at a loss as to how to recreate the logos, they look to me to be etched somehow :?

Has anyone had any success with this sort of thing?

Cheers,

Neil.

 

[MR OX]

Re:

If you can trace the logo, you could make a stencil & paint the logo on with a suitable colour to match the etching

 

[Neilios]

I don't think I have the skills to make that stick MR OX.

Wondering if I should just get something more common, sure I've seen some NOS Onza floating about on here, then keep an eye out for some Overends on ebay.

 

[WD Pro]

Strip them and polish the crap out of them ...

WD

 

[Neilios]

I've got a polisher to restore the cranks, but I want this build to be EXACTLY as I bought it! It's turning out to be more difficult than I thought!

 

[Graham_hkr]

Looks like a laser print.. :!:

Strip them and polish the crap out of them ...

As above.. ^^

 

[Neilios]

Strip them and polish the crap out of them ...

As above.. ^^

As above.. ^^^ Got to be as close to the original build as possible.

I reckon you're right on the laser thing too, no way I can reproduce that. Might have to get the black marker out and touch in the scratches and keep looking for some NOS ones.

 

[Graham_hkr]

Got to be as close to the original build as possible.

Yes forgive my ignorance, looking at you Flickr pictures I can see this, have you been on the Caygill Facebook page?

 

[Neilios]

Re:

Yeah, I've had the bike over to them and they sorted me out some parts for it too, they've been really helpful

 

[shogun]

Trace them, scan them, live trace in photoshop, get someone to cut that into blast mask film, have them lightly media blasted to etch in the logos.

Alternately look for a NOS set