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Hello,
Posted a picture of the PCB for this in another thread the other day but didn't finish wiring it up until today so to complete the circle here goes.

Just a simple ROG Omega with a Geofex polarity protection set up, 3904/3906 transistors and few other bits.

Take care,
dave

whoa whoa whoa, that's a work of art.

WOW. That enclosure is absolutely amazing. Always good to see a ROG circuit, too. :)

I'm sorry but there's no way I could plant my smelly foot on such an insanely nice piece of artwork.  Right about the time I think builds just can't get even cooler...

Nicely done.

Looks like something Trent Reznor would have on his pedalboard!

Dude, how the...??   I mean... really.  How do you even make an enclosure look like that?  Has it been sitting at the bottom of Lake Erie for 10 years? 

grungy!  dig it!

Epic steam punk is epic!

That finish is EPIC. I'm so impressed by that.

Jacob

This is so, so good. Please tell us how you made it!

Seriously, how did you do that? That's amazing! I...just amazing. Just simply amazing.

Yes! Please do tell! What an awesome job you've done on this!  :o :o :o

Yeah, Dave! Once again, that's awesome! Jaw-dropping! You did it again! ;) But how? How was this finish made?

Hector

When i see stuff like that....makes me wanna hide my pedal haha......awesome man

LOVE the enclosure!. That is awesome.  8)

This...is insane. Fantastic job man, I salute to you.

I f@#king love this mate,true work of art. I've never seen another pedal with this effect, copper covered?
Very cool, Matt

sexy!

Absolutely outstanding!

That is absolutely fantastic.  Very impressive.

Looks like a pedal from the City of Lost Children.

Hello guys/gals(?), Thanks for kind words!

Pretty simple really and i'll add here not sure how well this finish will stand up to abuse but in this case some abuse would give it some character.

Tools; aluminum duct tape, embossing wheel, steel rule, heavy razor knife, cutting matt and India Ink. You cut out a well-squared, random sized rectangle of aluminum tape, 'rivet' the perimeter with the embossing wheel working on top of the soft cutting matt, peel the back off the tape and stick it to the enclosure. Continue cutting, embossing and sticking until the enclosure is covered, that's it.. then you get to play.

Added more texture to the individual panels by pressing files and rasps into the tape, used the thread of screws and bolts to leave an impression, hammer and a nail, anything handy that would leave an impression in the tape. Rolling a round rasp over the tape left an interesting pattern, used that for the back. The punching of letters was nasty, the Hammond enclosure was much harder then expected and needed a far harder whack to leave a good imprint then i was willing to deliver. Should have done the lettering to the tape before putting that panel on the box. At this point burnished the tape down with a brayer to ensure good contact with the enclosure.


Once textured, painted it all over with India Ink, let it dry a bit then wiped it off with paper towel, do that a few times until you get what you want. At this point i'll do an "isolation" clearcoat with a mix of GAC200/Airbrush Medium to protect the ink layer so if i don't like what goes on next i can hopefully remove it without messing up the earlier efforts. (The first go round i reached a point where i didn't like how it was going so used acetone and a scrub brush to take it back to the undressed tape.) After the ink-  it's paint  splatter, stencil, stamp, rub the paint around with your fingers, wipe it off before it's totally dried, (working one colour at a time let it dry before doing another so you don't get mud.. unless of course that's what's called for), sand it chew it up some more, there's some very old dried out dry transfers buried on there, anything goes really... Lots of isolation coats done through the colouring process.

Knobs and bezel thrown in a can of screws and bolts, shaken up, not enough damage so used files and sandpaper to chew things up more. Follow that with the India Ink treatment. Those bits and the enclosure are lacquered.

Switch plunger-cap got the abuse and India Ink.
Brass hardware, ammonia fumed.
Switch's and jacks' nuts/washers, propane torched.


(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc305/davent/IMG_5020_zps81645689.jpg)
(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc305/davent/IMG_5169_zps53a1a118.jpg)
Thanks guys!
dave

Good god. That's amazing.

I'm going to need more of a primer to work with embossing wheels and metal tape. I've got no foundation in that medium.  ;D

That is the most bad ass enclosure I think I've ever seen  :o 

I think you're the only other person who uses india ink on this board :)

Holy Fawking Jesus Fry!!!! :o

I'm in love with that enclosure!

Does India ink wear well? It seems like you could get more mileage out of it by using a little bit of enchant here as there to rough up the surface so that the ink has more surface area to bind to...?

Thanks again folks!

Quote from: neiloler on February 21, 2013, 03:37:21 PM
Does India ink wear well? It seems like you could get more mileage out of it by using a little bit of enchant here as there to rough up the surface so that the ink has more surface area to bind to...?

Wouldn't wear well if left unprotected so worked well in this instance since i was wiping off most from the slick foil just wanting it to remain behind in the various divots and physical impressions i'd made. Dumped over a bottle on the workbench and that's wearing well as the bench sucked it up like sponge. Once the isolation coat was added (GAC200)  over the ink, any new inking does bind well and is not very easy to remove. All the inked/painted surfaces are protected with the usual lacquer so i expect they'll be fine but never tried this before so will have to wait and see.
dave

Quote from: alanp on February 21, 2013, 03:26:12 PM
I think you're the only other person who uses india ink on this board :)

How do you go about using it? I'd only ever used it, before this pedal, with dip pens to try and label and that's going to require more practice/play. So far seems i need to wait until lacquering to do ink, ontop of acrylics it spreads and seeps so you lose the controlled lines.
dave

Quote from: davent on February 22, 2013, 01:38:55 AM

Quote from: alanp on February 21, 2013, 03:26:12 PM
I think you're the only other person who uses india ink on this board :)

How do you go about using it? I'd only ever used it, before this pedal, with dip pens to try and label and that's going to require more practice/play. So far seems i need to wait until lacquering to do ink, ontop of acrylics it spreads and seeps so you lose the controlled lines.
dave

watercolour painting?

also, nice to see another Ontarian on the board. 

I simply paint and write with it, then once it's dry (completely dry, it will run otherwise) hit it with clear nailpolish. (If you touch it before it dries, even to add more, it will then run. It's touchy.) Clear rattlecan is also a go-er, but I can't seem to do that without the clearcoat cracking.

Another method I use is to engrave the enclosure with the dremel, and paint in the grooves with India Ink, no clearcoat needed.

Quote from: davent on February 22, 2013, 01:31:45 AM
Thanks again folks!

Quote from: neiloler on February 21, 2013, 03:37:21 PM
Does India ink wear well? It seems like you could get more mileage out of it by using a little bit of enchant here as there to rough up the surface so that the ink has more surface area to bind to...?

Wouldn't wear well if left unprotected so worked well in this instance since i was wiping off most from the slick foil just wanting it to remain behind in the various divots and physical impressions i'd made. Dumped over a bottle on the workbench and that's wearing well as the bench sucked it up like sponge. Once the isolation coat was added (GAC200)  over the ink, any new inking does bind well and is not very easy to remove. All the inked/painted surfaces are protected with the usual lacquer so i expect they'll be fine but never tried this before so will have to wait and see.
dave

Thanks for the feedback, Dave!

Enter this in the build-off comp, gonna be sure win..... If it sounds as good as it looks...  ;) Simply amazing! Never seen anything like this before man, damn!

Paul