More pics from the shifter project:
My first, failed attempt to get the pattern onto some tape:
On paper
Holes punched out
Taped in place
When I tried to pounce it out so I could trace the emblem on the tape I found out my holes weren't big enough and it didn't work... so I got a better idea:
put the tape right on my computer screen and traced it, worked much better
The original pattern on the tape, on the piston:
Then I cut the whole oval out and just brushed some Ford blue over it, forgot to take a pic of that. Stuck the oval cut out up inside the piston so I didn't lose it. Let the blue paint dry over night and then I cut out the letters today after dinner. I got out a manila file folder, stuck the oval cut-out to it lightly, and cut the letters out with an Xacto, and peeled them back. Then I stuck the oval back on sans letters:
I had to cut the centers out of the O and D and set them aside and then stick them back in on the piston so I didn't white out the holes in the letters. I also had to run the sharp edge of the knife back against the cutout as I pulled it off the folder to keep the adhesive on the tape and not take up a bunch of paper with it.