flemming
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These are three pedals that I did early on in my building adventures. A friend wanted to buy them, so I opted to rebox them in order to get them UV printed and I wanted to switch out the hardware for the high quality ones that I'm currently using. Gut shots are in the original build reports.
Phase II (original build report): I always hated the way the first enclosure came out and I'm pretty happy with this one. It was based on a couple different components that I bought from vectorstock and reworked them to my liking. Buying a few credits from vectorstock has saved me a ton of time on some of my UV prints. Most designs can be bought for $1 which is well worth avoiding the trouble of fighting with sub-optimal vectorization. I've done a couple designs on Winked Silver and I really like it. This is the second enclosure that I've done involving a cat with a gun, so maybe I've found a niche
I did switch the input to use shielded wire this time around rather than simply taking the long route around to avoided the dreaded ticking.
Spirit Box (original build report): I think I may actually like the original less busy design a bit better. This is my first time doing partial gloss, with only the black and white parts being coated. I'm not sure if that'll have an impact on the durability of the non-glossed parts, but we'll see. Even though this was a cream enclosure, up close the white parts aren't as opaque as I want them to be. I think 2 white layers is a must with Tayda if you have any white showing. The white on the prints I did with AmplifyFun was way better, but I got the impressions 2 white layers was standard with them.
Unicab (original build report): The original pedal was done in everyone's favorite scratch magnet, ball silver. I opted to try the new raw matte enclosure for this one. I like the more worn look of the original so if I had to do it again I'd mute the colors a bit and switch to matte gloss.
Phase II (original build report): I always hated the way the first enclosure came out and I'm pretty happy with this one. It was based on a couple different components that I bought from vectorstock and reworked them to my liking. Buying a few credits from vectorstock has saved me a ton of time on some of my UV prints. Most designs can be bought for $1 which is well worth avoiding the trouble of fighting with sub-optimal vectorization. I've done a couple designs on Winked Silver and I really like it. This is the second enclosure that I've done involving a cat with a gun, so maybe I've found a niche
I did switch the input to use shielded wire this time around rather than simply taking the long route around to avoided the dreaded ticking.
Spirit Box (original build report): I think I may actually like the original less busy design a bit better. This is my first time doing partial gloss, with only the black and white parts being coated. I'm not sure if that'll have an impact on the durability of the non-glossed parts, but we'll see. Even though this was a cream enclosure, up close the white parts aren't as opaque as I want them to be. I think 2 white layers is a must with Tayda if you have any white showing. The white on the prints I did with AmplifyFun was way better, but I got the impressions 2 white layers was standard with them.
Unicab (original build report): The original pedal was done in everyone's favorite scratch magnet, ball silver. I opted to try the new raw matte enclosure for this one. I like the more worn look of the original so if I had to do it again I'd mute the colors a bit and switch to matte gloss.
