The awesome pedal PAINTING thread

[hair force one]

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green spraypaint & black marker pen & then rooock!

[Paul Marossy]

hair force one-

Cool enclosure. Did you make that yourself?

[hair force one]

yes Paul, i make 'em myself and sometimes make a bunch and sell 'em (atthe site below) but they're a bit pricey (for US customers...

[Paul Marossy]

Nice work hair force one.  

[cormac]

omg these are incredible lol -- i really feel like a loser now -- i'm having nothing but problems painting mine -- i'm gonna ask my questions anyways (i'm not proud )

ok i've got a kit from small bear -- starting populating the board yesterday (going well too ) -- but painting this is making me nuts --

it's a galvanized aluminum box -- i primed it with two coats of metal primer (spray can, name brand metal primter) and sanded (400 and 600 grit) between each coat and cleaned the surface after sanding with a clean cloth and rubbing alcohol --

so the primer went fine -- when i started painting the color (purple) and repeating the same process i'm getting a 'scaling' on the coats -- at first it was fairly low-key and i sanded it out -- but with each subsequent coat, it's getting worse -- the last coat was the worst -- it looks like purple alligator scales -- which, if i ever build a stompbox with an alligator theme that would be cool -- -- however, i'm going for a smooth finish to use self-printed clear labels on --

any suggestions? i'm very conscientious about sanding and cleaning etc. -- this is my first time so i am turning to all the experts here -- man so many of them look professional --

oh also -- when i put on the decals/stickers, i saw then i should then "use a clearcoat that don't resolve the ink" (thanks kojjum) -- i take it the label will say this or what should i look for?

Thanks for any and all help -- great looking boxes

[Gilles C]

Here is my latest, waiting for some lettering.



http://www.gtechblues.ca/SunburstMaking.html

I finally decided on a "Balanced Input Buffer A/B Effect Loop" board.

A kind of double Tilman circuit.

A box waiting for a name.  :roll:

Gilles

[Paul Marossy]

Wow, Gilles, that is very cool! Nice work.  

[hair force one]

i'll say this primer and this paint are not in love!

[Gilles C]

i'll say this primer and this paint are not in love!

Any bad experience with it?

Or did someone else have?

Thanks,

Gilles

[FatMike]

Here's a picture of my EA Tremolo in another DIY enclosure. (actually it
doesn't really fit in this painting topic with it's rather boring gray painting, but I somehow like that color for it )



Here's another picture, a closer view of the controls.
http://forum.musikding.de/attachements/Tremolo_05_k.jpg



Fat Mike

[H.Manback]

Nice work there, just a cool look, nothing in your face on the paint job. Looks very neat and tidy!

I'm working on an enclosure for my small clone, and I really hope that all the experimenting I did so far to see if I can get it right will pay off. Once it's done I'll be sure to show it here.

[hair force one]

excuse me gilles i was talking about cormac bad experience with mismatched chemicals... :oops:

[Torchy]

crp

[FatMike]

Where do you get those enclosures ? Looks great (especially in the subtle paint scheme)

As is said before, its a selfmade enclosure  :wink: . I build them using a plaxiglass like stuff (it's called "macrolon", a very solid material)

[Samuel]

So how do you get/work with Makrolon? Very curious.

[FatMike]

So how do you get/work with Makrolon? Very curious.

I cut the single sides of the enclosure out of a peace of about 5mm thick Macrolon and glue them together using glue for harder plastics. Then I round out the edges, sand the whole enclosure and spray it. Although the single sides of the enclosure are only glued it is very solid. I tried deassemble one of these enclosures, it didn't work. Nice glue...  
I guess that you could break them by jumping on them, but I guess that still would be hard.


Here's a link to a post by Image_sounder:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/sboxforum/viewtopic.php?t=28076

He builds his enclosures in a very similar way (but with thinner "sheets" of macrolon), you can see quit well how it works as the enclosure on his  pictures isn't painted yet.

[nofretsplz]

Okay, I'm not sure if this will post the photo correctly....heregoes...

I laser cut a plate with the holes and characters, put the thing together, then filled the characters with form-a-gasket stuff from the garage.
The rest of the finish was the result of an attack by a rabid grinder....


http://groups.msn.com/spvrd6alvdtrchp6avl09ld5i3/files/photo%2Fklingonpedal.JPG

[MartyB]

This link requires a login/password-type thing.
:?

[MartyMart]

so the primer went fine -- when i started painting the color (purple) and repeating the same process i'm getting a 'scaling' on the coats -- at first it was fairly low-key and i sanded it out -- but with each subsequent coat, it's getting worse -- the last coat was the worst -- it looks like purple alligator scales -- which, if i ever build a stompbox with an alligator theme that would be cool -- -- however, i'm going for a smooth finish to use self-printed clear labels on --

any suggestions?

Does it look like this :
http://www.pbase.com/martymart/image/33339388      !!!!
That was a nasty reaction between box/paint and clear coat I almost wanted to keep it that way !! :-)
I just had to remove the lot and found a new clearcoat !!

Cheers,
Marty

[Gilles C]

While reading the posts about the primers and the paint used by everybody, I thought it would be nice to have a page somewhere that would list the correct paint to use for effect boxes finishing.

...And what NOT to use.

A page or a section called "Finishing your own stompbox" to complement this forum.

Good and bad experiences could be mentioned.

Gilles