Etched enclosures

[deadastronaut]

i'm allowed to post this now..(as per competition rules)   its been a long time since i did a 1590bb,

[Hexjibber]

Great stuff! Clean work as always man, looks awesome! Sounds cool in the vid as well, could no doubt bust out many Atomic Bitchwax or Monster Magnet riffs with that!

[deadastronaut]

Great stuff! Clean work as always man, looks awesome! Sounds cool in the vid as well, could no doubt bust out many Atomic Bitchwax or Monster Magnet riffs with that!
[/quote]

cheers man, yep, monster magnet, atomic bitchwax...indeed you space lord mutha.. 

[Pettol]

@deadastronaut, very nice!

[guitarmageddon]

^Very cool Rob!
I can pick one of your builds a mile away.

Here's a Rangemaster in a wedge enclosure (cut down 125B)

[hylandren]

@ Deadastronaut: Okay, NOW I see what you mean about the coincidence!
Wow, beautiful etching and brush work, great layout design, and sounds great to boot.
I still struggle to get small print and fine lines to come through when etching, so I am blown away by your etching precision...

If you don't mind my asking, are you a photo paper guy or pnp blue?
Ferric Chloride or something else ?

Guitarmageddon uses Photo paper with great results, but the only time I tried it, it was a total FUBAR disaster.

[deadastronaut]

@guitarmaggedon....cheers man. 

lovely rangemaster P TO P as well ....cool.

@hy: cheers man, yep, i use glossy photo/ferric too...

if your image isn't sharp when you have ironed it...then redo the image.

i find if i stretch a font , even in inkscape it will not print sharply, though the image on screen is....

[Maik]

Hey Rob, save it in inkscape as a pdf and it will be sharp again

[deadastronaut]

^ really....i'll have to try that...i just wondered why it was being weird...?

what is happening to it then?...when resized etc..?

cheers maik.

[TG Flatline]

That's ace, love the shadowed font, lovely simple design, nice one dude!!

[deadastronaut]

Yeah that is a cool font, came out great 

[seedlings]

Booty Thief ( Madbean Kingslayer)

I have an affinity for pedals (and guitars) that look like they are played hard, loved - you know, pieces that say, "do what you want with me, I'm a reliable tone machine."

This is a great example!

CHAD

[guitarmageddon]

Thanks gents.

Yeah that is a cool font, came out great 

Rob, the font is called Postoffice.
@Chad- thanks Man! I like the rustic look too.

[hylandren]

if your image isn't sharp when you have ironed it...then redo the image.
i find if i stretch a font , even in inkscape it will not print sharply, though the image on screen is....

-If re-sizing makes your font not sharp, then that means its has somehow gotten rasterized. If kept in the vector format, you can literally enlarge it to the size of a billboard and it will still be razor sharp. That's the beauty of vector graphics.
That's what is throwing me, I am very careful to keep all type and images in vector format, and it looks sharp when I have finished the trasnfer, but small font and lines ( like those on your Space Patrol Fuzz) are often broken or jagged.

Hey Rob, save it in inkscape as a pdf and it will be sharp again

-Actually that's not quite completely true. If it was originally a vector image, and he rasterized and saved it, saving it again as a raster (PDF)
image won't  undue the damage that was already done earlier by previously rasterizing the original.  Once its pixelated, re-converting it to a vector image will stop additional degradation, but can't undue what's already been done.

[Perrow]

I think what they're saying is that Inkscape messes up when saving to bitmap (excessive jaggedness) but not when saving to pdf. The wonderful world of Inkscape Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it's far from perfect.

[Maik]

Yes, Perrow is right.

Yesterday I sucked on this


http://imageshack.us/a/img12/2210/f1ap.jpg

The water for the acid was too hot, so the acid was too strong. Redo it, damn!

[hylandren]

Yes, Perrow is right.

I see. I use Illustrator which, by default saves images as vector files. I have never used Inkscape.

Yesterday I sucked on this

http://imageshack.us/a/img12/2210/f1ap.jpg

See, that's a good example of what I mean, The small lined details there are more solid than on my transfers, so I am definitely still doing something wrong...

The water for the acid was too hot, so the acid was too strong. Redo it, damn!

Perhaps that is what I am doing wrong. I fill a pitcher with hot water from the tap, and put the bottle of etchant in it for 10-15 minutes. Is there a specific recommended temperature for ferric chloride?

[endorphin]

If I remember correctly my bottle Ferric Chloride by MG Chemicals, says not to exceed 135° Fahrenheit or 50° Celsius. I have an infrared thermometer I use to monitor my temperatures. If you get close to 135° the acid etches fast but a little strong, eats through your graphics where you don't want it. Gets really frothy too.

[hylandren]

If I remember correctly my bottle Ferric Chloride by MG Chemicals, says not to exceed 135° Fahrenheit or 50° Celsius. I have an infrared thermometer I use to monitor my temperatures. If you get close to 135° the acid etches fast but a little strong, eats through your graphics where you don't want it. Gets really frothy too.

Thanks for that info. If that's the case, them etchant temperature is likely not teh cause, since I just run hot water from the tap to put the etchant in. I haven't put a thermometer to it, but I don't see how that water could be anywhere close to 135 degrees...

[Maik]

My problem was that the acid was about 30°C. HCI should have 20° or it gets stronger. It was realy a cooking thing, about one minute to eath uncontroleble