Etched enclosures

[italianguy63]

cool, came out great man....

why the off centre FS?....by request?

Really?!  So the artwork would fit (of course!)

[deadastronaut]

   lol... of course.

[statzern]

Has anyone tried filling portions of an etched enclosure manually? I have this design (see below) and would like to fill parts of the bees and the portion behind the control letters (vol, flt, drv) with black. I had considered using permanent marker as it would fit nicely into the recessed areas, but the ink in a permanent marker is not actually black, and has this purple sheen to it. I am going to try putting a matte clear coat over some permanent marker on some scrap tonite and see if that reduces that effect, but I don't have very high expectations. I would use a paint pen but the lines are way too fine for that. Any other suggestions are appreciated!!

[EBK]

Has anyone tried filling portions of an etched enclosure manually? I have this design (see below) and would like to fill parts of the bees and the portion behind the control letters (vol, flt, drv) with black. I had considered using permanent marker as it would fit nicely into the recessed areas, but the ink in a permanent marker is not actually black, and has this purple sheen to it. I am going to try putting a matte clear coat over some permanent marker on some scrap tonite and see if that reduces that effect, but I don't have very high expectations. I would use a paint pen but the lines are way too fine for that. Any other suggestions are appreciated!!

I know of one person who used a syringe full of ink and a microscope for doing that.

[stallik]

And I tried it with a srynge and thinned nail varnish. Looked great until the very last bit!
Please note that it wasn't my nail varnish. That's much too precious

[thomasha]

finished a build with an etch that came out really nice.
Quite complex drawing, but a lot of the details survived.
for the pedal I used the lowrider schematic available at madbeans

[duck_arse]

thomasha - where did you get the ^ picture of BetterOffShred?

[thomasha]

you mean the graveyard pipe organ poster?

really nice poster, I was looking for some pipe organ pictures online and that one blew my mind

[deadastronaut]

''SKINWALKER'' hi gain chuggy bstd...

[stallik]

Beautifully done Rob

Now altogether everyone. Demo, demo, demo

[deadastronaut]

Cheers...im on it....

When i get a mo....

[deadastronaut]

ok you asked for it....a brief quick n dirty demo. 

[stallik]

Some amazing tones in there Rob. Only listening on the iPad but a couple of settings sounded really big. Should sound massive on proper speakers.
Just noticed that, viewed from a distance, with a bit of a squint, I spy a hedgehog

[deadastronaut]

lol..hedgehog.....i see that too now, you bstd ha ha....

yeah its pretty chunky, still cleans up on backing off etc...

nice n clean and quiet too in between chugs.....love it . 

i decided to start a thread on it....

[bluebunny]

i decided to start a thread on it....

That's 2018 spoken for, then!   

[deadastronaut]

 

Im going for a record this time....

[garcho]

nice work thomasha, i ran out of patience for those detailed etches, your's looks great

[vigilante397]

Hot damn. Rob, I think we should start a band.

[deadastronaut]

get ya drums out then....

[bluebunny]

I've got my bass.  Are the trains running to Mottingham today?