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Started by pickdropper, July 23, 2017, 09:53:23 PM

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pickdropper

It's been a long time since I've posted a build report, but this one was sort of interesting, so I thought I'd throw some pics up.

Somebody contacted me and asked if I'd build them a 3-in-1.  He wanted an etch of The Great Wave off Kanagawa on it. 

I suggested using acrylic plates for it (which I still think look better) but he wanted it directly etched on the enclosure and seems very happy with the results, so it's all good.  I didn't get very good shots of the inside, but there is one gutshot.

This is the final build:



This is one of the acrylic plates:



This is a an acrylic plate with a reverse etch:



And this is the gutshot (obviously):



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alanp

That is so art-like :) I like how minimalistic your silkscreens are on the pcbs.

The name always makes me think of that book, "The Wave" by Morton Rhue.
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BrianS

Oh my that's a great looking build.  That etch is, uh, I don't have words of how sharp it looks.  So nice in and out.

EBK

Can you tell me more about this acrylic plate etch stuff (pointing me somewhere else would be ok too  ;))?
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Leevibe

Man, I like all 3 versions. I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite.

pickdropper

Quote from: EBK on July 23, 2017, 10:31:15 PM
Can you tell me more about this acrylic plate etch stuff (pointing me somewhere else would be ok too  ;))?

Basically, here is the process:

1.) Take a piece of acrylic
2.) Paint one side of it with the color you want (I used black for both pieces)
3.) Setup your artwork in the vector program you like (I use Adobe Illustrator)
4.) Flip the artwork horizontally so that the image is backwards (because you are going to reverse the underside of the acrylic.
5.) Laser etch and cut acrylic.  I used a 30W Epilog laser for this.

For the reverse etched one, I inverted the colors.
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midwayfair

Lovely etch, but can we talk about how perfectly sized and spaced the boards are inside?

diablochris6

Agreed. Great layout inside and ingenious method for plate design.
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Willybomb

Those guts are a thing of beauty.

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Quote from: midwayfair on July 24, 2017, 03:21:17 AM
Lovely etch, but can we talk about how perfectly sized and spaced the boards are inside?

When you use boards laid out for 1590A builds, it sort of just works out that way with 3-in-1 builds.
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mrclean77

Great build - I love the little boards and the insides (I usually do love your gutshots). The customer chose wrong - shoulda went with the reverse etched acrylic, oh well. One could say this is a matter of opinion, but nope....customer was wrong.  ;D

EBK

For the acrylic, would the switches and knobs be mounted only to the underlying enclosure and not physically touching the acrylic (due to carefully oversized holes)?  Wondering about cracking....
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