Bramble is our family tandem. She has a whole page to herself over here. A custom bike like this deserves a custom headbadge.
So much of my work now is digital, I took real pleasure in working analogue for this project. You can see here some of the ideas I tried out.
![Sketching out ideas](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SketchIdeas.jpg)
There are influences from the Bristol Transport logo that we had made into the logos for the tandem.
![Bristol name on Tandem](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/NamePlate.jpg)
Here is the final artwork. No scanner, no photocopier. Trace, refine, and ink. It’s a “B” for Bramble and for Batchelor.
![B logo](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RedrawFavorite-1080x1080.jpg)
Thanks to Richard for the piece of brass. I bent it around a pipe with a hammer, glued on the design and transferred it with a centre punch.
![Transferring the design](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Punching-1080x1080.jpg)
A tiny drill is a quick way to start removing material. Then small saw and needle files.
![Drilling out](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Drilling-1080x1080.jpg)
This was after about 2 hours of roughing out. The design was starting to show, and my fingers were sore.
![Roughing out](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Roughing-1056x1080.jpg)
We went to Cornwall, and while Mithi was drawing and Z was digging sandcastles, I pulled 3 needle files from my pocket and sat on beaches filing the details.
![Filing](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Filing-1080x1080.jpg)
Nearly there – time to profile. I made a little mistake in the middle there. That’s what’s nice about analogue; I was probably about 15-20 hours in at this point and I wasn’t going back.
![](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/NearlyDone-890x1080.jpg)
The last stage was polishing. Mmmmm.
![Polishing nearly finished badge](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Polishing-1080x1080.jpg)
Here it is on the honey Brooks saddle before it was fixed in place on the head tube, it matches the copper rivets on the saddles – this gives a coordinated feel for the whole bike.
![Badge on saddle](https://www.drewbatchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OnSaddle-1080x1080.jpg)