Last pictures before proceeding to color.
The viawave housing is alright I guess, I went on simple shape, as everything I tried on the computer looked funny. Thank you #wesayso for the other suggestion 🙂
The viawave housing is alright I guess, I went on simple shape, as everything I tried on the computer looked funny. Thank you #wesayso for the other suggestion 🙂
Finally ready for paint. As for the Viawave housing I settled for a simple shape. Everything I tried looked funny so... yeah, that will do. Or else Wesayso will come with a better idea 💡, thanks in advanced 😀
For the full color version, I wouldn't change a thing. 🙂
But for a version with the luscious wood veneer I'd be inclined to print something comparable in bronze...
On the cheap this could be done with bronze filament...
The above is an example done with a Colorfabb PLA filament... many sorts are available, also Copperfill with a slightly different look.
It is a hand polished piece with a shot of black spray paint over it that's rubbed off to give it an antique look. I've used it myself for projects at work.
The look is quite good and convincing once polished. Be aware that this material eats up print nozzle's though.
A much more "luxury item" could be printed by one of the online print services, like Shapeways or iMaterialise (with it's brown polish steel print)...
(redesigned to include that logo of yours of course 😉)
These services can also print with the "lost wax" principle, making it jewelry like...(more here). I've used that lost wax service, plated with Rhodium for both my amplifier's name tag:
But for a version with the luscious wood veneer I'd be inclined to print something comparable in bronze...
On the cheap this could be done with bronze filament...
The above is an example done with a Colorfabb PLA filament... many sorts are available, also Copperfill with a slightly different look.
It is a hand polished piece with a shot of black spray paint over it that's rubbed off to give it an antique look. I've used it myself for projects at work.
The look is quite good and convincing once polished. Be aware that this material eats up print nozzle's though.
A much more "luxury item" could be printed by one of the online print services, like Shapeways or iMaterialise (with it's brown polish steel print)...
(redesigned to include that logo of yours of course 😉)
These services can also print with the "lost wax" principle, making it jewelry like...(more here). I've used that lost wax service, plated with Rhodium for both my amplifier's name tag:
Awesome! a solid piece of bronze would look incredible. Thanks for the links, I’ll check it upFor the full color version, I wouldn't change a thing. 🙂
But for a version with the luscious wood veneer I'd be inclined to print something comparable in bronze...
On the cheap this could be done with bronze filament...
The above is an example done with a Colorfabb PLA filament... many sorts are available, also Copperfill with a slightly different look.
It is a hand polished piece with a shot of black spray paint over it that's rubbed off to give it an antique look. I've used it myself for projects at work.
The look is quite good and convincing once polished. Be aware that this material eats up print nozzle's though.
A much more "luxury item" could be printed by one of the online print services, like Shapeways or iMaterialise (with it's brown polish steel print)...
(redesigned to include that logo of yours of course 😉)
These services can also print with the "lost wax" principle, making it jewelry like...(more here). I've used that lost wax service, plated with Rhodium for both my amplifier's name tag:
Wooooooooow!!!!!!!!
Bravo on the sharp gloss. A true black mirror. How do you get the finish so even?
Thanks, but I took the pictures directly after spraying (2k-airless). The surface is simply wet.... but, nevertheless, high gloss would be achieved in the same way:
-Primer-2 to 3 coats, sending between coats. 240p.
-spraying color- notice that before spraying color the surface needs to be perfect. Every blemish or unevenness in the primer would be seen since normally color do not have fill effect.
-directly after color comes clear coat. Here is the moment you decide which gloss you want, mat, seidenmatt, gloss etc... I have once made a high gloss cabinets...nightmare, too much work, and one can see every single unevenness... never again.
Show me any car from the last 30 years that does not have orange peel, and i'll show you a car that has been wet sanded by hand..........
HA, they can't even be bothered getting the shading correct on the plastic bumpers compared to the rest of the panel work.
HA, they can't even be bothered getting the shading correct on the plastic bumpers compared to the rest of the panel work.
Seems like true craftsmanship is getting somewhat lost. Or cost of Labor as quadruple in the last 30 years.
We have here in Freiburg a beautiful Steinway showcase room… Several times I went inside to just have a look at those masterpieces…. To my surprise though, many had Orange peel. The showroom keeper asked me what I’m doing , so I said “see here though the light you can see rough uneven texture“ she looked at me like I just landed from the moon 😒
No one seems to appreciate it this days
My guess is that in these last 30 years life became much faster and details such are those are treated as low importance.
These days that level of attention to details i see only in work done by retired people that are in good health and are financially situated so their work presents a labour of love. You can imagine how often that happens.
Oh and not to be forgot... You are lucky if you just got looked at strangely. When i went to a hifi store in Berlin, i asked a question to a younger guy about a pair of loudspeakers. There were no other people in the store or i wouldn't disturb him. I got answered with a question.
Salesman: Are you buying them ?
Me: No.
Salesman: Then i won't waste my time on you.
Me: Sorry for any inconvenience. Good day.
So... Strange look wins that by quite a margin 🙂
These days that level of attention to details i see only in work done by retired people that are in good health and are financially situated so their work presents a labour of love. You can imagine how often that happens.
Oh and not to be forgot... You are lucky if you just got looked at strangely. When i went to a hifi store in Berlin, i asked a question to a younger guy about a pair of loudspeakers. There were no other people in the store or i wouldn't disturb him. I got answered with a question.
Salesman: Are you buying them ?
Me: No.
Salesman: Then i won't waste my time on you.
Me: Sorry for any inconvenience. Good day.
So... Strange look wins that by quite a margin 🙂
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Consumers have to consume more and more in order to keep current world economy running. Aint gonna happen if products were any good
I find that as time goes on, the price of materials and (usually automated) construction goes down while the price of man-hours is drastically increasing. The time human hands spend on an object massively increases it’s value now.
I have a couple of questions about the crossover. I do not see a key for watch some of the symbols mean. I went through the website and I understand that This next image is a loop of copper wire connected to the tag strip, to make multiple connections.
What do these other two wire symbols mean, please?
I must admit that I have no idea what those symbols are. I rarely look on those elaborate layout. It probably takes him ton of time to draw them, but I do think they are more misleading then helpful.
Try to follow instead the technical layout instead>
-You would probably make less mistakes
-you can layout the crossover to suite your board
-it is for me much easier to follow
take for example this one:
You take your parts and lay them on your board without soldering, until your satisfied that everything fit nicely.
After soldering I usually use an 8inch b&w midwoofer and connect it to every output. It is the easiest to know if your good without roasting accidently your tweeter.