UPDATE: Painting Ford logo's

I wrote in a few weeks ago about painting the Ford logos. After much reading and looking around at different car and machinery restoration sites, and trial and error here is what I came up with. It is a variation on a site where I saw a paper towel rolled up and folded in half to make a dauber.
I made my own "dauber" out of the items below



I put the furniture felt pad on a ? inch bolt head and then covered it with a piece of chamios, pulled tight and taped, then a piece of cloth (t-shirt) pulled tight and taped.



I think the key is to get it tight and it forms a sort of slight crown to the dauber.


I sanded the tops of letters with 600 grit and wiped it down with wax and grease remover and then painted. When you daub the paint on there will be some splatter, I just cleaned it off with a Q-tip dipped in thiner. I was able to clean up the edges of the letters with the Q-tip (rolled between fingers to keep fuzz down) by tracing around the edges.I was able to make fairly clean lines at the edges fairly easily. My wife had some pointy makeup applicators and I used those to clean inside the loop on the F in the logo and other tight spots. I did practice on an old hood 3 or 4 times to refine my technique.



I am pleased with the results. I hope this helps others with the finishing touches on your restoration.

Nice job. Never would have thought of that.

That looks really, really good. Nice job!!!

Yes, that came out good.

I bet that Bluferd's gray paint over red paint then sand the gray off would work well too, but I think that I would have to watch someone do it to see how they did the edges.

Looks really nice, and that's a pretty close up shot too!

I was just contemplating best way to paint this myself!!

Great job!!

curious, were all ford fender logos always red regardless of year?

I believe the embossed Ford logo first appeared in
mid 1950. Always red as far as I know