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Just wanted to say thanks for this thread - very helpful.
I've built about 8 pedals now and am thinking about getting the enclosures powder coated before having a go at printing labels and using this Envirotex stuff. Pedals sound great but looks leave a little to be desired
Probably going to get them all coated in white and then just generate different graphics for the labels.
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I will rough-up the top of the enclosure before I apply the decal, then I will spray the top with some sort of clear coat. Any suggestions of what I could use for good results? I've tried Halfords lacquer before on an enclosure I painted myself and it took months to cure. PlastiKote acrylic seems to get good reviews in general (on amazon and the like, by craft-type people). Any suggestions?
I thought I'd add my recent build to this thread, though the finishing can best be described as "rough and ready" as I didn't want to spend ages on it
I sprayed one quick coat of satin black (after washing the enclosure with a little washing up liquid) onto the front face and rubbed it back a little with some wet and dry and kitchen towel soaked in white spirit.
The lettering and ray gun was drawn on with a silver paint marker, rubbed back and re-done to make it look nicely ragged.
I would like a little colour on it though, so maybe I'll have to pick up some paint pens if I don't just use a little acrylic (I have lots of artist acrylics and as it won't be stood on it won't suffer too much wear).
I was going to use red, white and blue knobs but once I'd done the paint I thought the clear ones suited it better.
The pedal is my third kit build and the easiest of the three - a Parasit Studios Raygun Youth, which is a mad PLL fuzz monster. I'm also looking at five other Parasit Studios kits as they're cheap, easy to build and sound great (i.e. mad).
Yes, still using Envirotex. I figured I may as well while I still have a supply of the sticky backed paper and ET. I'll try another approach when I run out.
The amp is a Fender Blues Deluxe. Sounds great clean and with pedals. I never really use the drive channel to be honest.
Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay
MXR Phase 90
Boss CE-2
Vemuram Jan Ray
ZVex Fuzzolo
Hudson Broadcast
ProCo Rat
Earthquaker Devices Tentacles (already did one of these for a mate and it sounded mental so thought I would knock one up for myself)
I think I'm most looking forward to the Hudson Broadcast and most worried about the Phase 90. I have built a little FET tester and matched the transistors as closely as I could from about 12 options but I'm not sure how close is a "good" match.
That graphic looks excellent - paint pens?
yep posca pens, with some farrow and ball Calluna for the background. Got a sample pot of the colour we want to do the bathroom in knocking about so thought I’d put the rest of it to use in this cost of living crisis. I went with powder coated white cases for the stewmac kit but it turned out to be too slick for the posca pens. Scuff sanding a key did the trick but had to cover that up somehow
I had thought the easiest way would be roughing up the existing paint, enamel spray paint, water decals printed on my cheapo ink jet printer, then clear coat.
I haven't settled on a design but currently my ideas are things like this...
Does that seem sensible/likely to succeed?