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Originally Posted by RacingManiac
that's one of the kind.....I'd personally still sand it a few grade higher though, which would look more like a brushed steel finish, and perhaps a more hand-caligraphy-like font for the Chinese character(like the Woo on your slide).....can't wait to see it with proper grip.....
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Originally Posted by ILLusion
Wow... really stunning piece.
My take on it: Polished a couple of grades higher, silver controls and cream coloured tan grips would be mad sex - but to each his own. Very original. I like.
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The problem is that all the nice calligraphic fonts I could find had a very limited library, and one word in the data stamp (part of the word for caliber) and half the words in the quotes would've been in print style while the other calligraphy. I had planned to polish it to a slick mirror polish too, with silver controls, bushing, etc.
When I realized I had to go with Microsoft's print-style font, I decided I wanted it to look like it came from the factory like that, with minor personalizing (the Woo/Ng family name). It's looks like less of a showpiece and more of a duty gun or something, that just happens to be pretty unique.
Thanks for all the kind words! I'm pretty happy with it.
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