Band of Dans
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Mine moved to āstartedā this morning. Maybe your message kickstarted both of oursI logged another case, asked them to change colour if they have to, then got told that apparently it will ship tomorrow.
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zeropluszero
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Yeh I think both of those are accurate
jessenator
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Good to know. I had some rather polar progress indicators during the last couple of orders. Sounds like multiples is the way to go.
zeropluszero
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Well it took a month but my order has just been sent. Hopefully this isn't a precedent for the two other orders I have in the queue because this has taken so long 
Band of Dans
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Me too! Iāve had a couple slow ones in the past, but this one was by far the slowest. Hugo told me they had one good batch, then the supplier sent them a bad batch of powder and they were struggling to get good results. All that to say: I donāt think this is a portent of things to come.Well it took a month but my order has just been sent. Hopefully this isn't a precedent for the two other orders I have in the queue because this has taken so long
In the future if I want to try out new or unusual finishes Iāll probably put those in their own orders so the more boring ones donāt get stranded.
Either way, really looking forward to wrapping up the big pile of half finished pedals that have been taking up space on my desk for the last month
vigilante398
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I've started doing exactly that. Most of my "production" pedals are winked silver, but I have a couple oddballs, and I once had a batch of candy green sparkle delay a batch of 150 winked silvers that were ready to ship.
My metallic black order placed May 20 is still sitting at Pending on powdercoat. I'm sure I'll get it eventually.
jessenator
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Bugger, I was eyeing that one
vigilante398
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Put an order in, maybe it will push mine to go faster
It is a really cool finish, I like it a lot. When I was designing this pedal I got one each of every black or gray finish they had (13 total I think) so I could compare them and metallic black was the winner.
Band of Dans
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FWIW there was a metallic black in my last order and it finished up in just a couple of weeks. I think that oneās at least moderately popular.
I really think this water texture finish was just an anomaly. Otherwise itās usually safe to take the mindset of, āif itās not Black Sand, just expect it to take a few weeks.ā
zeropluszero
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I've had a few metallic black, it is a really nice finish, worth the wait.
I think I have about 10 fully populated PCBs waiting on enclosures at this point haha.
I think I have about 10 fully populated PCBs waiting on enclosures at this point haha.
Band of Dans
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Got the golden water texture enclosure in the mail yesterday and Hugo was right: this batch is not great. Kind of a standard gold sparkle with a weird lumpy texture on top that makes it look dull. None of the cool crackle texture from the photos. Also all my UV prints are soft/under-cured and have already picked up a lot of surface scratches just from handling them. Lots of visible print lines, too :-/
I'll probably reach out to them next week.
I'll probably reach out to them next week.
zeropluszero
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Bummer. 
UtilityBeltFX
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Any quick thoughts here? Tayda says some of my colors are RGB, but when I select them in the illustrator file, they come up as CMYK. I can't even "convert to cmyk" because they already are...
jessenator
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could try the trick of:
- select your artwork (obvs make sure nothing is hidden or locked or both)
- go to the swatches palette
- on the menu select "add selected colors" and check the "make global colors" if it's still there (I'm on an ancient versionā¦)
then you can see ALL the artwork's colors in the swatches, and they'll be made into individual swatches with the little white corner mark (not the white corner with dot for Spot colors). Then you can make any adjustments, check their color config, etc.
Also, probably a no-brainer, but make sure the document mode is CMYK, double check.
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UtilityBeltFX
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Document was set to RGB. Not sure how that happened...let's see if that fixes it!
UtilityBeltFX
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Update: Shipped!