Metal Tux case badges... another approach

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On Wednesday 15 February 2006 14:11, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Ok, the whole doing metal Tux case badges for the
> Linux World show is a pet obsession for me... The
> problem that I have is creating a "master" badge from
> which copies can be made. To that end I asked about
> CNC machines for directly cutting a master out of say
> aluminium, an approach that so far has not come up
> with workable solutions.

Here's another go at the metal case badges.  A friend of mine is an artist and 
sculptor.  Here's what she came up with.  

> Artcast says that six bronze badges from six original waxes at
> 1"x1" would be $100 + GST/PST, so $115. This isn't a problem for me,
> because I would probably sculpt one positive in clay, take a negative
> from it in plaster, and then make six waxes from that plaster. I'd
> charge an absolute maximum of $230 for the privilege of doing this,
> including paying ArtCast and getting all the shipping sorted (because
> I am super-excited about it), but I'd only charge after someone
> approved the initial clay.
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