I got these from Electronic Surplus. But you just gotta watch on eBay, they come up once in a while.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Aleph Null on September 20, 2018, 05:14:08 PM
Your knob game is strong! Did you silk screen the graphics?
Quote from: Govmnt_Lacky on September 20, 2018, 05:28:33 PM
Is that a rare 'light plate' sighting there???
Quote from: Govmnt_Lacky on June 21, 2018, 08:47:58 PMYes Laser etched
You hold trademark on the name?
Also, is that laser etched?
Quote from: drog_trog on June 21, 2018, 01:35:25 PM
Very nice. Whats that font btw?
Quote from: cooder on June 20, 2018, 02:15:50 AMI better be!! Thanks!
That is very sweet... and pink... and nicely put together!
I bet you are your niece's hero for many moons to come!
Quote from: pickdropper on December 11, 2017, 03:25:49 AMQuote 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.