giovanni
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- Build Rating
This is loooooong overdue. I finished soldering and boxing my Paragon probably a year ago. Back then I made a troubleshooting thread (those pesky metal LED bezels!) but not a build report.
Since then, I had to pack all my stuff because we had a very long renovation at our townhouse. We jumped from one Airbnb to the next for a few months and finally moved into the top floor of the house a couple months ago while the work was still ongoing. My soldering iron and all my other gear stayed packed until a couple weeks ago when the work was finally completed.
Since I haven’t been able to build anything, I spent some time working on graphics. I made my first UV print a while ago (shared on the UV thread, haven’t started the actual pedal yet) and today I made my first laser engraved faceplate. Which brings me to this build report!
I must say I really enjoyed both building and playing this pedal. I was not expecting to like it actually. For the graphics I grabbed an svg file of a stylized crown from the web (the king is the king) and went with simple labels. This was a first attempt at getting the laser settings right and it turned out OK. The engraving is not as sharp as I would like, both at the edges and filling. But as a first one, I’m quite happy. I asked a buddy to help me out with the settings so I may eventually replace the faceplate with a slightly better looking one. The knobs may be a little too large but I liked the silver top and didn’t really like any of the other options I have available. All in all, I’m pretty happy with the result, this is my first “professional” looking pedal (although with some flaws), which I’m really excited about!
Since then, I had to pack all my stuff because we had a very long renovation at our townhouse. We jumped from one Airbnb to the next for a few months and finally moved into the top floor of the house a couple months ago while the work was still ongoing. My soldering iron and all my other gear stayed packed until a couple weeks ago when the work was finally completed.
Since I haven’t been able to build anything, I spent some time working on graphics. I made my first UV print a while ago (shared on the UV thread, haven’t started the actual pedal yet) and today I made my first laser engraved faceplate. Which brings me to this build report!
I must say I really enjoyed both building and playing this pedal. I was not expecting to like it actually. For the graphics I grabbed an svg file of a stylized crown from the web (the king is the king) and went with simple labels. This was a first attempt at getting the laser settings right and it turned out OK. The engraving is not as sharp as I would like, both at the edges and filling. But as a first one, I’m quite happy. I asked a buddy to help me out with the settings so I may eventually replace the faceplate with a slightly better looking one. The knobs may be a little too large but I liked the silver top and didn’t really like any of the other options I have available. All in all, I’m pretty happy with the result, this is my first “professional” looking pedal (although with some flaws), which I’m really excited about!
