What do you see in this logo?

[guycox]

Looks like Mr Peanut to me..

[Kristofor]

I did see the smiley face and the "y" too. I thought there was going to be some Little Mermaid poster/Camel Cigarette box, type hidden obscene picture based on the way you phrased your question, but luckily that was not to be

Yes, it's 1.3199 cm^3 of material. It's 3/4" wide and 13.25 mm deep. For scale, the large holes in the back are 1/4" diameter.

It's hard to tell on the screen, but going by the scale of the hole = 1/4", it looks like the front thickness of the piece is about 4mm, with maybe half of that removed to form the AF logo? That seems workable at the size you've designed there.

Add me to the "That's a pretty reasonable price for a custom made one-off, it will be cool to see how it works" camp

[woodturner]

I'm curious to know if you all "see anything" in this like we did.

Well, if I play it backwards, I hear the voice of the Britney Spears

Seriously, I just see the face with the monocle others have mentioned. I like it - seems like a nice and professional "artistic" logo. Pretty neat in my book.

[Alex Franke]

It's hard to tell on the screen, but going by the scale of the hole = 1/4", it looks like the front thickness of the piece is about 4mm, with maybe half of that removed to form the AF logo? That seems workable at the size you've designed there.

That's pretty good eyeballing! The design is raised 1.25mm and it's backed with an extra 2mm solid. They suggest a minimum wall thickness of 2mm for the stainless steel, and even though it's not really a wall, I figured it would be about the right thickness in this case.

The 1.25mm extrusion for the logo is just a guess, though. 2mm looked too tall, and 1mm looked just a little too short. Hopefully it was a good guess.

[master53yoda]

I showed my son who is a machinist he said that is made from 1 piece of stainless and progression machined. He said that if you a have a 3D plan The Gibbs program can make any part you can draw in 3D. as an example he showed me a couple of pieces that he has made that look so complicated that he had to explain that it is machined in zero reference points that are actually outside of the piece. Quite interesting.

[jacobsk]

I showed my son who is a machinist he said that is made from 1 piece of stainless and progression machined. He said that if you a have a 3D plan The Gibbs program can make any part you can draw in 3D. as an example he showed me a couple of pieces that he has made that look so complicated that he had to explain that it is machined in zero reference points that are actually outside of the piece. Quite interesting.

What your son is speaking of is something different from what the OP's talking about.

Hey I finally found a use for this Engineering Degree & Rapid prototype expierience!

a short explanation for the process would be as follows.

FINE stainless powder is built up in layers "printed" so to say, where it is held together by an organic "glue" or binder.

then the piece, fully shaped, is moved to an oven, where it is sintered - meaning the stainless steel powder melts just enough to hold together, but not enough to liquify and lose its shape.

this sintering process burns off all the organic binders, or the "glue" which was keeping the powder from losing shape and falling apart.

now that the stainless powder is melted together, its full of holes and is very porous... this is because the podwer only melts to itself where it was touching (think a bucket full of golf balls) meaning the part is relatively weak.

now they infuse Bronze (or any other material - the website says bronze) meaning that they heat up and "inject" bronze into the part filling the majority of the gaps between the stainless particles.

the part is now significantly stronger than it was as just stainless powder, yet not nearly as strong as a solid stainless part.

the resulting piece can have the complexity of a part which cannot be made by traditional machining at a cost of strength and price.

using this process to make branding irons is a fantastic idea.

the important melting temperature will be that of the bronze used for infusion... because if you get above that melting point the infused bronze will begin to lose shape and possibly come out of your part.

HOWEVER Brass and Bronze branding irons have been around for centuries and you will have nothing to fear using this process to make one.

thanks for the idea, I will be ordering one of these soon!

[LCHIEN]

thanks jacobsk for the explanation. Good one.

[Alex Franke]

Indeed -- that's a great explanation of the process, jacobsk. It's a lot clearer than the video.

The only part I don't understand is how they infuse the bronze only into steel form.