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Here's the final installment to my Paramour project.I added some detail stickers to the chassis plate indicating all the important stuff.
It almost sucks having a vinyl cutter as the temptation to put stickers all over everything is amazing. I probably over do it but what the heck!
Now to hook the thing back up and start enjoying it.
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Instead of a generic "off/on," why not something more interesting? You'll have peace and quiet with the amp off, but you'l fall in love with its sound when it's on, so why not "peace" for off and "love" for on? "Peace" and "love" would fit the unit much better than the sterile "on/off" you'll find on consumer units. The input jack could be "submit," and the speaker connector could be "dominate." Consider "power" and "control" for the tube sockets.
Hi,
Great job!
I am planning on re-doing my Paramours in oak base with a brass top plate, and upgrading the plate choke and output iron while I'm at it. Could you please tell me how you make the great decals?
I use Bel decal paper with my inkjet printer, but the transparency that slides off is too thick and it's easy to see thats its cutout, and stuck on. I used to build model cars as a kid, and the decals were so thin, it looked as if it washand painted on professionally. Wish I could get decals like that for my projects!
I'm looking for a better way, for a more professional appearance. What is a vinyl cutter you mentioned?
Thanks,
mg16
I have a Roland Stika SX-12 Vinyl Cutter. It cuts adhesive back vinyl from 12" vinyl stock. Basically you just open a graphic or do some lettering in a program like Corel Draw or Adobe Acrobat and hit print. The cutter cuts instead of prints.It's actually fairly affordable at about $550 or so. It comes with some software called Dr.Stika but I've found I don't use it very much. It's kind of a featureless, starter program that makes you want to buy the extremely expensive Sign Mate Stika software.
Corel Draw 10 or 11 costs several hundred bucks but I'd actually recommend getting one of the Corel Draws from 4 to 8 as they're very affordable and quite functional. I paid over $500 for Corel Draw 10.
I got my Roland cutter from www.ssky.com They also have an SX-8 that is even cheaper.
I also have access to a Roland PC-60 24" vinyl cutter at work. We use it for applying aircraft markings. So many people began bugging me to cut personal stencils at work that I just bought my own Stika machine. Now I'm cutting stencils on the side and picking up enough cash to keep me in capacitors and designer resistors.
There's probably 100 or more people in whatever town you're living in just like me. Last time I went to the States there were five or six guys at the local flea market set up cutting decals and making custom license plates. Figure out what decals or markings you want and slip one of those guys a $20 bill and you're in business.
John
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