1973 Art of Metal Carving - 5 Page Vintage Custom Bike Motorcycle Article

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1973 Art of Metal Carving - 5 Page Vintage Custom Bike Motorcycle Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
ACCENT YOUR SCOOTER
WITH METAL CARVING
Why not revive this art
of antiquity as an
appropriate custom
bike expression?
By Joe Ziegler
Do you realize the custom bike has
become the proving ground for every
art and craft form ever devised? As
the cat is the perfect photographic
subject with no bad angles, so the
custom scooter is the perfect vehicle
(no pun intended) for displaying any
of man's expressions of creativity.
From macrame to metal sculpture,
the beauty man devises improves the
look of the custom motorcycle be-
cause the custom motorcycle en-
hances or improves it. Through the
various art forms interesting melds of
color, texture, and design add coun-
terpoint to the overall object.
Until now metal carving, one of
man's oldest art forms, has been
largely ignored by the custom bike
crowd. The reason for this informal
boycott is probably that metal carving
is a comprehensive art form requiring
years of practice to become adept at
its execution.
Metal carving is different than
metal engraving. Metal carvers look
with disdain on the superficial, push
tool designs made by engravers, the
kind of stuff done in jewelry stores.
They separate their art form from all
superficial hand or machine engraving
on the basis of appearance and kinds
of abilities necessary to do each.
Whereas surface engraving is a
simple inscribing of lines to depict
shape and design, metal carving en-
graving is the actual shaping and
forming of three-dimensional designs
in bas-relief. While some engraving
requires only outlining, carving re-
quires shaping to depict form.
Custom bikes and metal carving
are naturally compatible, with the
carving serving the same art and op-
tical function as that carried by pin-
striping, except that carving is many
times more complicated and intricate
both in application and function. That
function is to supply interest and eye
appeal in open, plain-looking areas,
and to unite or hold together adjacent
areas of mechanical complexity, to
give the object it is applied to (in this...
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