Monday, December 7, 2020

Nearly complete

So, electronically, I think it's complete and where I'd like it to be in terms of tone. 

There has been a delay in receiving the tolex vinyl for covering the cabinet, so it's still bare wood, but the faceplate is done and in place. I read on a forum somewhere that someone had reverse printed their labels and such on a piece of clear plastic, so I used that approach. Generally, it went like this:

Use the layout from hole drilling template to locate the places for text, etc.


My partner is handy with a pen, and was generous enough to swirl out a bunch of variations of letters and labels and so forth. 



I scanned the calligraphy into images, blackened them and clean them up and converted to SVG, then placed those images onto the hole drilling template image and had Staples reverse print that final image onto a transparent sheet (could only get 8 x 11, so had to do across two pages and join the parts)



Cut holes for switches and spindles and and spray paint over the reverse image



Adhere to the front of amp with silicone


And voila!




(The star and tree graphic is taken from the old 1901 version of the Maine state flag.)