Pictures!

[vigilante397]

Finally got around to boxing up my Zendrive. This one is definitely going on my board

[Joncaster]

Finally got around to boxing up my Zendrive. This one is definitely going on my board

Definitely!
Lovely build

[Benoi31]

That is a clean etching!! 
Well done! Gutshot?

[vigilante397]

That is a clean etching!! 
Well done! Gutshot?

Thanks It's actually CNC engraved, I was never very good at etching The guts aren't particularly remarkable, but I'll pull it off my board (it's already there) and open it up for a picture when I get home.

[vigilante397]

And here you are, unremarkable Zendrive gutshot. It's fairly clean for me, because I usually have spaghetti messes of wires. I am also pretty proud of how the board turned out, it was a CNC milled double-sided board.

[deadastronaut]

That is a thing of beauty nathan...really like that man..

Very cool.  I thought it was an etch too.. 

[vigilante397]

I thought it was an etch too.. 

Pretty sure you could pull off an etch that tight Rob, but I sure as hell can't I need my robots to do it for me

[patrick398]

Considering the incredible quality of some of these builds, my first attempt at 'decorating' a pedal seems laughable but i guess you gotta start somewhere.
This is my cave man approach to toner transfer:



Things you need:
A frying pan
A wooden spoon
An inexhaustible arsenal of expletives

Going to start buying painted enclosures from Tayda so i don't have to arse around sanding enclosures to make them look slightly less ghastly. Are laserjet waterslides the best way to go?

[davent]

The 'best way' is to pick one method and stick with doing it over and over again, practicing until you're in control.

dave

[bluebunny]

Are laserjet waterslides the best way to go?

Works for us bunnies.   

[deadastronaut]

A frying pan
A wooden spoon
An inexhaustible arsenal of expletives

ive got to ask about this method in more detail...including the expletives 

looks nice and black, rather than dull grey..

[bluebunny]

An inexhaustible arsenal of expletives

If this is all it took, I'd be making Fabergé stompboxes by now...   

[vigilante397]

I used laserjet waterslides for a long time and they are a good way to get good quality results with little(-ish) effort. But frankly your toner transfer looks better than a lot of my waterslides did

The 'best way' is to pick one method and stick with doing it over and over again, practicing until you're in control.

+1 to that. If I had stuck with waterslides longer I probably would have figured it out. Or if I stuck with handpainting, or if I stuck with etching...

[patrick398]

A frying pan
A wooden spoon
An inexhaustible arsenal of expletives

ive got to ask about this method in more detail...including the expletives 

looks nice and black, rather than dull grey..

I don't have an iron so i just thought i'd try out another heat source. I heated a small frying pan with a folded piece of tin foil in it, heated the front of the enclosure for a short time so the transfer would tack on then put it back face down in the frying pan and applied pressure with the wooden spoon. After a minute or so on a pretty high heat i removed it and then rubbed the paper hard with the spoon. Repeated that a couple of times. A little bit of sea salt and garnish with a slice of lime; delicious.
The dual LFO phaser i did first actually came out a little better i think. I probably applied to much force on this one, hence the small amount of bleed at the bottom.
I tried a few times using the matte medium transfer method but could never get the paper fibres out and would usually end up rubbing through the medium itself. I'm guessing i didn't leave it to dry long enough (over 24hrs)

This is the paper i used for the heat transfer method:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A4-White-GLOSS-Plain-Self-Adhesive-Sticker-Paper-Sheet-Address-Label/201007238437?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=500212701262&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Works pretty well (using the back sheet obviously)

I used laserjet waterslides for a long time and they are a good way to get good quality results with little(-ish) effort. But frankly your toner transfer looks better than a lot of my waterslides did

The 'best way' is to pick one method and stick with doing it over and over again, practicing until you're in control.

+1 to that. If I had stuck with waterslides longer I probably would have figured it out. Or if I stuck with handpainting, or if I stuck with etching...

Think i might try waterslides next, had pretty shoddy results first time but didn't try doing a full face decal. Having said that, i only have a B&W laser printer so wouldn't be able to do colour anyway. Maybe i'll just stick with black text/logos and try different coloured enclosures. 

[Fender3D]

... I heated a small frying pan with a folded piece of tin foil in it, heated the front of the enclosure for a short time so the transfer would tack on then put it back face down in the frying pan and applied pressure with the wooden spoon. After a minute or so on a pretty high heat i removed it and then rubbed the paper hard with the spoon.

Repeated that a couple of times. A little bit of sea salt and garnish with a slice of lime; delicious.

You're not married Patrick, obviously,
otherwise ask your wife whether she has a sister....

[patrick398]

I'm not married no, which i strange because with all this frying and swearing i'm very much the Gordon Ramsey of the toner transfer world

[deadastronaut]

buy a cheapo iron....you can use it for clothes too apparently ...

mrs astro 'donated' her old iron.

[Fender3D]

buy a cheapo iron....you can use it for clothes too apparently ...

mrs astro 'donated' her old iron.

Etching clothes, Rob?

[Willypp]

Ok, so:

Beastmode:  Superjudge, Mudflap (Triple Wreck with modified TS based boost), plus 1knob gate.  And yes, his eyes light up when you play.

Reactor:  Baja's JVM410 with added bypassable EQ. Worked first go, but never again.

Lightspeed:  Madbean Afterlife and Pickdropper Minitaur.  Sandwiched back to back in a 125b.

Genuine Fake:  "Jfet Overdrive" found on the tagboard forums.

[rankot]

Engineer's Thumb inside and outside: