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The Best Uniform in All of Trek
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could be better. a proper very experienced machinist could do it in metal...
Ok, I'm not sure if you read my bio - but I am a proper experienced machinist. 20+ years - fuck my life. This would be excruciatingly hard. First off, that coloring would need to be either oxidized bronze or brass. You'd need to then machine perfect hexagons (the bestagons) and both of those are very sensitive to work with.
I'd need to CNC out all of the patterns first (depending on what the customer wanted, brass or copper) and then make tiny links out of the same material. This would cost tens of thousands to make out of metal. I'm not kidding here - for me to do this off the top of my head, I'm thinking $40k. And that is only because the designs have to be precise and I personally will not do marginal work when it comes to Trek.
And ontop of all that, you need someone that can do real, serious work on the clothing. This is, again, assuming the pieces are metal. This would be so crazy expensive that no one that is a professional will take on the job
Honestly, just stamp out hexagons out of whatever sheet you have laying around, apply paint/lacquer or best yet, engrave a pattern. Pin it on a fabric backing, and presto.
No, it won't drape, or be comfy, but it'll be cheap and sort-of pretty. Actually, it would probably stab you in the neck several times during the 30 seconds you wear it...
Yes, that's the practical way. But asking a machinist to do this? Just don't.
I'm not a machinist and the thought of making hexagons on a lathe makes me cry.
Hired, you start tomorrow. Yes I know. And your previous ghola may have had a conversation with me once about machining questions or something in that vain that I vaguely recall. I worked in two machine shops for a short time and still have small desktop aspirations here and there for jeweler's scale or maybe something like a gingery lathe.