This build was done as a favor for the local guitar shop owner. He's not only a good friend, but he's given me a lot of work over the years. In fact, this was the final piece in a bunch of work I did towards a Mesa MkV 35W (NAD coming soon).
It's a rehoused DanEcho delay pedal. I've always considered rehousing a PITA, and this was no exception. I think this is the last one I'm going to do. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a gutshot before giving it to him, so this is all I've got to show.
(https://i.imgur.com/5vUWarK.jpg)
Very cool. Looks much better now. The dan-echo is a worthy little delay but I doubt that was any fun to do.
Love that faceplate! I have a Dano Tuna Melt Trem that I've been meaning to rehouse but it just doesn't seem like I could rehouse it the way I would want and still get it in a comparably sized enclosure. And the switching...
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Never again is what you swore the time before. ;D
never again is what I say after every rehouse
The Dminner is strong with this one :)
Quote from: culturejam on December 07, 2017, 02:20:13 PM
Never again is what you swore the time before. ;D
That's my policy. ;D
When I see "never again" from pickdropper, all I can think about is I'm glad I wasn't there.
Quote from: alanp on December 07, 2017, 03:38:25 PM
The Dminner is strong with this one :)
That's high praise as Dan's got a great eye for design. I think he does a better job at the techno-geek sort of vibe. Whenever I do things like this, they always have a vaguely art deco look to them.
(https://i.imgur.com/6TE0qwg.jpg)
Quote from: midwayfair on December 07, 2017, 04:47:49 PM
Quote from: pickdropper on December 07, 2017, 04:31:05 PM
Quote from: culturejam on December 07, 2017, 02:20:13 PM
Never again is what you swore the time before. ;D
That's my policy. ;D
Wait, did you get wooshed?
It's a riff on Forrest's quote, which is a line from the song Policy of Truth.
Damnation, that's sharp. Relay switching, too, looks like.
What faceplate material is that?
Quote from: jubal81 on December 07, 2017, 05:10:08 PM
Damnation, that's sharp. Relay switching, too, looks like.
What faceplate material is that?
It's nothing fancy. Just acrylic where I painted one side black and reverse etched it (everything backwards). That way, the paint sits against the enclosure and can't get scratched away.
Ok. You've done it again. That face plate is gorgeously done. So freaking jealous of your skills. Seriously that thing is just amazing.
Could you do a tutorial on this? Plse.
Damn sexy. I love the clean lines on the faceplate. Looks manufactured, all pro like.
Looks awesome!
No doubt rehousing is a terrible undertaking.
Josh
lovelyl looking.
I can attest rehouses you do for the love rather than the enjoyment...
I would likely never do one on request. I would sell a rehouse I no longer enjoyed, but never as a request. 8)
Oh yeah rehouses are a PITA, I really admire your patience and in general I absolutely love the look of your builds. Really.
Would have loved to see a gut shot though...
:)
Quote from: Boba7 on December 10, 2017, 08:55:17 PM
Oh yeah rehouses are a PITA, I really admire your patience and in general I absolutely love the look of your builds. Really.
Would have loved to see a gut shot though...
:)
Yeah, I wish I had taken a gut shot or two. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't terribly messy either. It was realistically about as good as I can do considering that I had to work with the existing boards.
Thanks for the kind words, everybody. While I'm in no hurry to do another one, I am glad this one turned out decently.
Quote from: BrianS on December 07, 2017, 10:28:46 PM
Ok. You've done it again. That face plate is gorgeously done. So freaking jealous of your skills. Seriously that thing is just amazing.
Could you do a tutorial on this? Plse.
At some point, I may do a tutorial, but the process is fairly easy to describe (it's not all that complicated, really).
1.) Paint one side of an 1/16" (or 1.5mm) sheet of acrylic with paint of your choice. I usually choose black.
2.) Lay out vector artwork in the program of your choice (I use Adobe Illustrator).
3.) Flip the artwork along the horizontal axis so that text is backwards.
4.) Etch/cut the plate out on a laser engraver. I etch with a raster operation and cut it with a vector operation. With the engraver I use, the line thickness dictates (0.1 stroke) dictates if it's a vector cut.
5.) Clean off the excess material from the etching. Usually compressed air works just fine for this.
When you are done, you flip the plate over so that the etching has the text read forward, which puts the etch on the bottom of the acrylic plate, protecting the remaining paint when it's installed on the pedal.
Quote from: pickdropper on December 11, 2017, 03:25:49 AM
Quote from: BrianS on December 07, 2017, 10:28:46 PM
Ok. You've done it again. That face plate is gorgeously done. So freaking jealous of your skills. Seriously that thing is just amazing.
Could you do a tutorial on this? Plse.
At some point, I may do a tutorial, but the process is fairly easy to describe (it's not all that complicated, really).
1.) Paint one side of an 1/16" (or 1.5mm) sheet of acrylic with paint of your choice. I usually choose black.
2.) Lay out vector artwork in the program of your choice (I use Adobe Illustrator).
3.) Flip the artwork along the horizontal axis so that text is backwards.
4.) Etch/cut the plate out on a laser engraver. I etch with a raster operation and cut it with a vector operation. With the engraver I use, the line thickness dictates (0.1 stroke) dictates if it's a vector cut.
5.) Clean off the excess material from the etching. Usually compressed air works just fine for this.
When you are done, you flip the plate over so that the etching has the text read forward, which puts the etch on the bottom of the acrylic plate, protecting the remaining paint when it's installed on the pedal.
What etcher do you use? And do you glue the acrylic onto the enclosure? Or just screw it down? Looks gorgeous! Great work!
Wow
Quote from: pickdropper on December 07, 2017, 04:31:05 PM
Quote from: culturejam on December 07, 2017, 02:20:13 PM
Never again is what you swore the time before. ;D
That's my policy. ;D
I like to imagine you guys sitting around in the Function f(x) warehouse, hunched over your soldering stations, getting loopy off the solder fumes, blasting
Violator. :D
Every now and then, you have to do a re-house to remember why you told people you don't do them. I've definitely been in that cycle before :).
Great work on the enclosure though. It will turn heads for sure.
I always look forward to your build pics, such a treat. 10/10 ;D