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Leather covered Cab
VanillaGorilla:
instead of nail heads, how bout shiny gold t-molding?
http://www.t-molding.com/store/product.php?productid=23&cat=12&page=1
With the caramel/yellow oak color that the leather has (great work, btw), it would look tres 80's :P
skinz:
Wow the shiny T-molding looks great thanks for the link.
Erik:
--- Quote from: skinz on November 16, 2010, 12:16:19 pm ---LOL - there are no fasteners. The gold and nailheads will be for decoration. There is no bunching, no lumps, no gathered leather, no fasteners of any kind. The leather is carefully templated out and glued directly to the piece. At first glance, you would think it's painted until you touch it. In any case you will certainly see pictures of it all covered in leather before any decoration. We just want to pimp it out because we feel like it's what someone would have wanted in the 80's. You know, slightly gaudy but impressive at the same time. I had the idea for the brass nailheads just to replace the T-molding. The gold is real 23K gold leaf that is burned into the leather in patterns with a hot brass wheel - It isn't hardware. I think it will look pretty insane when it's done. Embarrassingly enough it's all I can think about and is probably the least important thing going on in my life. Don't you love how that goes? LOL :dizzy:
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Hope that didn't come across as negative. I'm sure it will come out outstanding. With that said, I'd gladly take brass buttons over that shiny t-moulding ;)
If someone told me .. hey I'm going to make this super sweet end table out of solid wood, then give it a nice dark stain, then I'm going to take that table and inlay leather in the center, THEN I'm going to give that leather some gold filigree .. well I would have thought that would look like p00. Yet I saw that very thing on your website and it was amazing. So definitely whatever your vision is for this let's see it thru!!
Also that red stitched leather sling chair is exactly the kind of item that my wife would spend untold dollars on, so she has been informed she is forbidden to shop at your store.
BurgerKingDiamond:
did you post about your problems in the Monitor/Video section? The people that post in there are probably more likely to be able to help you then the random people (like me) that peruse the project announcements. The leather looks awesome BTW.
skinz:
Peabody - No offense was taken at all. You did not come off as rude at all - lol. BKD, I haven't posted yet in the monitor thread - Next weekend there will be a bunch more work done on the cab though. Just got the quick disconnects to go with the heavy jamma harness I got and I am picking up the CP from the woodworker today. I'm gonna try the 2 low end AGP cards member TOK sent me this weekend and try setting the Bios to "onboard" (I know I know) like I read in one post and if that doesnt work I'm not going to waste too much time on it. I'll post in the monitor thread. I'm still convinced it's the Dell since the Tekken 3 PCB plays on it fine. I've been following another members thread that got all those cabs from a pizza place to repair and he seems new at it but very good at it. I'll PM him as well as the desperation thickens. My wife keeps seeing the pile of stuff I'm getting ready grow and is starting to ask alot of questions, so I need to get it done LOL... ...I'll need to replace that monitor at one point anyway - it's got serious Tekken 3 Burn. I'll tackle that after I get it up and going and read up more on monitors. Once its burned its burned right???