I want to use my Express to play gigs. If I put it in something as beautiful as Larry Mann's (Distortion's) cabs, I'd be afraid to take it out of the house My first goal was to make a rugged front panel, so I decided to make it out of aluminum. I used a 1/8" x 2" x 17 1/8" piece. None of the pots were threaded long enough, so I had to countersink them behind the panel. I will likely use 1/16" stock for the next one. I used steel lettering stamps to label it. It just seemed to be in the spirit of the wood-burned labels on the originals. I put a machine-turned finish on it to turn it into "figured aluminum" and engraved the name (Cynthia). It lacks the nobility of figured Kauri, but it should be rugged
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Couple of questions. How did you engrave the Cynthia part? I have a little hand engraving tool that doesn't seem to make much of a dent in the die cast aluminum box I tried to use it on.
Where can I get those steel lettering stamps? Are those something I might be able to find locally, or would I have to order them?
drhulsey wrote:I want to use my Express to play gigs. If I put it in something as beautiful as Larry Mann's (Distortion's) cabs, I'd be afraid to take it out of the house
Chicken
Just kidding.. I actually like the aluminum faceplate..
The stamps I used were from Harbor Freight: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=90125
I hope I don't disappoint you by telling you they were $12.99 I'm reasonably sure they weren't individually had engraved by German craftsman They have 1/8" and 1/4" size. I used the 1/4".
The engraving was done with a tiny dremel cutting bit called an... engraver (#108 Engraving cutter). The head is a truncated cone and flat on the tip. The tip is about 1 mm. This aluminum came from Home Depot and seemed soft enough to have used a real engraver's tool. I didn't have one.
Distortion wrote: Chicken
You d*mn betcha That last Kauri cab you posted made me swoon If one of my band mates put a ding in that, I might be headed for jail
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The stamps I used were from Harbor Freight: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=90125
I hope I don't disappoint you by telling you they were $12.99 I'm reasonably sure they weren't individually had engraved by German craftsman They have 1/8" and 1/4" size. I used the 1/4".
The engraving was done with a tiny dremel cutting bit called an... engraver (#108 Engraving cutter). The head is a truncated cone and flat on the tip. The tip is about 1 mm. This aluminum came from Home Depot and seemed soft enough to have used a real engraver's tool. I didn't have one.
Distortion wrote: Chicken
You d*mn betcha That last Kauri cab you posted made me swoon If one of my band mates put a ding in that, I might be headed for jail
I'll have nice gig worthy tolex 'Wreck cabinets ready towards the middle of the month. Even if you have an authentic cherry cabinet already you may want to consider one so you can gig your 'Wreck.
My first goal was to make a rugged front panel, so I decided to make it out of aluminum. I used a 1/8" x 2" x 17 1/8" piece. None of the pots were threaded long enough, so I had to countersink them behind the panel. I will likely use 1/16" stock for the next one. I used steel lettering stamps to label it. It just seemed to be in the spirit of the wood-burned labels on the originals. I put a machine-turned finish on it to turn it into "figured aluminum" and engraved the name (Cynthia). It lacks the nobility of figured Kauri, but it should be rugged 
I'm reasonably sure they weren't individually had engraved by German craftsman 
They have 1/8" and 1/4" size. I used the 1/4".
That last Kauri cab you posted made me swoon 
If one of my band mates put a ding in that, I might be headed for jail 
