Poll: Box Colors. Which do you like?

[John Lyons]

I'm thinking about offering some powder coated boxes up for sale.
I got my rig set up and the results so far are very nice.

I just want to offer a few colors for now and see how that goes.
I want to start with 5 colors. Which do you like?
I'm thinking of 1290NS (B size) and 1590NS (BB) for now.

Let me know which colors sound good to you as far as stardard
colors to offer.

thanks

john

[punkin]

Ok...me first. 

Red
Black
White (off white maybe)
Silver??
Green (my favorite colour)

Can you do metallic colours?

[mnordbye]

Brown - Green - Orange - Red - White 

[sean k]

Reminds me of the episode of auveedizane (german for goodbye; sorry for the spelling) pet, a northern british series about english workers in Germany in the eighties where Barry decides to paint the interior of the hut they stay in. So he takes and vote and it ends up yellow.

The guys come in from work and are taken aback and ask who wanted yellow.

Barry answers that no-one could agree on first and second choices, he took a ballot, but several choose yellow as their third pick.

The foreman, can't remember his name said " Yup, thats democracy, we all end up getting what none of wants"

Turquoise, Mauve and Tangerine... or light blue green, light blue purple and slightly red orange.

[DWBH]

Black, White, Orange, Red, Yellow

or instead of yellow, blue

[John Lyons]

Ok, so it seems like Orange, Red, Black and maybe a Green or Blue(ish) would be good
choices to start.
I can get any color, I just want to start with sure shot choices for now.

Thanks for the input folks.

john

[MikeH]

Every time I build someone a pedal they want it to be orange.  Seriously, like at least 8 out of 10 times.  No exaggeration.

[Ice-9]

White
orange
Yellow
Blue
Aged white (ivory or something like that)

It would be nice to see a picture tutorial of this powder coating in action.

[Mark Hammer]

If your intent is not to get stuck with unsellable colours, then I suggest avoiding dark colours, since many lack access to any means of putting light graphics over top of such colours.

What is NOT out there at the moment?  Softer colours.  Like a salmon/peach, a light violet, light green, beige, etc.  Maybe not as "assertive" a colour as some folks here like, but your graphics will come out nice and robust over top.

Not that I wish to encourage anything piracy-like, but would there be any advantage to producing boxes that have just a colour on top, like EHX's Nano series?  I have little sense of what sort of powder coating is easier and harder to do, but it would seem on the surface (pardon the pun) that a simple top-coat only uses less materials and provides something that may be less prone to chipping at the edges.

[liddokun]

I agree with Mark, the powder coated stuff I get from smallbear are nice, but I have a hard time getting graphics on them because some of them are too dark (case in point being the blue enclosures).

I know there's ppp, but their shipping is crazy expensive to Canada.

Here's my vote:

Light green, light blue, light pink, light red, and light purple.

[John Lyons]

Good points Mark. They make sense.
The EH nano series with the paint/text is smart how it won't chip etc.
Personally I think they are extremely unattractive and boring/un artistic but maybe that's just me.
Powder coating it is VERY robust unless you really mistreat your pedals and carry them around
banging around in a sack they won't chip, and even then...

Masking of just the top is a big pain in the but and wouldn't be worth it.
You need to bake these at 400 degrees and use heat resistant tape which is expensive and labor intensive.

John

[Mark Hammer]

Good points Mark. They make sense.
The EH nano series with the paint/text is smart how it won't chip etc.
Personally I think they are extremely unattractive and boring/un artistic but maybe that's just me.
Powder coating it is VERY robust unless you really mistreat your pedals and carry them around
banging around in a sack they won't chip, and even then...

Masking of just the top is a big pain in the but and wouldn't be worth it.
You need to bake these at 400 degrees and use heat resistant tape which is expensive and labor intensive.

John

Good points, John.  Not having worked with powder coating, or even knowingly owning anything that is powder coated, what I suggested was entirely naive.  If masking provides little or no discernble gain then just coat the whole damn thing.  I do stand by my suggestion of lighter colours, though.  The darker, richer colours that Steve D. carries are also partly influenced by the number of commercial clients he has, who will undoubtedly arrange for someone to do silk-screening of white legending over top.  The rest of us are using stuff like rub-on lettering, decals, and such, for which lighter colours provide a more hospitable environment.

[jacobyjd]

+1 on the lighter colors. Some of the most impressive effects I've seen lately are covered in pastels. Makes for a very cool look when graphics are applied.

[aziltz]

orange hammertone (like orange amps) and purple hammertone (like the analogman sunface) would be great.

[John Lyons]

If they made an orange hammertone powder I'd make those for sure! Sadly I've never seen it 
I do have some purple hammer powder but it's been discontinued...sigh

Lighter colors do make sense mark. I agree.
All of the Hammond, BUD, EH (new sensor) , and all the smallbear boxes are powder coated.

john

[JimRayden]

For starters, you should definately do british racing green, there is no colour that looks cooler. My other choices would be orange and aged white, preferably exactly the same as Fender's vintage white.

Then I would definately love to see seafoam (or surf) green, such a pretty colour. There was a pic with a pedal and an aged guitar, both in identical seafoam green, in the photo thread a while ago. Marvellous sight.


On a sidenote, could anyone explain the chemical process that makes hammertone look hammered (heh, punny )?

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Jimbo

[punkin]

I too like darker greens...metallic would be cool too.

as for the hammer pains...thought i read somewhere that theres silicone in it to create a fish eye tipe of reaction.

[trixdropd]

I shop at ppp and really love the silver vein hammertone, as well as black hammertone.

[aziltz]

If they made an orange hammertone powder I'd make those for sure! Sadly I've never seen it 
I do have some purple hammer powder but it's been discontinued...sigh

Lighter colors do make sense mark. I agree.
All of the Hammond, BUD, EH (new sensor) , and all the smallbear boxes are powder coated.

john

oh i was under the impression that the color and the texture were separate powders you could mix and match.  i was gonna ask PPP if they could whip up orange and purple hammertone.

[chuckmoose]

Seafoam green!  I'm going to start doing my effects in retro colors like this I think.