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Leather covered Cab
skinz:
I can actually do that with leather by getting a high plate made and blind emboss it so it looks like negative space. I'd have to get the plate made - it's like $50 and would do just that. I kinda don't like that idea though because I see it so often... ...For me, burning by hand is much more hand made and much harder to do. I'm actually doing the negative space thing for 3 podiums for a company at work. Its Meh, to me - alot of people like it, but it is an arcade for me. I mentioned it to my wife and she said "You don't want to do anything that cheesey, do you?" - so that settled that - Whatever it is at least I'm on board with all of you to make it out of leather. So, Rick that is not impossible - very doable, just not my thing.
Rick:
Your Wife called my idea cheesy.
:-\
(I'm just kidding with you. It's your cab, and you do what you like! I'm sure - seeing your past work - that it will be amazing. And certainly not cheesy.)
;D
skinz:
ROFL!!!!!!!! :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
newmanfamilyvlogs:
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--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on November 26, 2010, 09:29:57 am ---Well you could cut out your logo in a bit of mdf or whatever in the negative, then use some material that looked like leather but was more stretchy and semi translucent, then when the machine turned on have a vacuum pump reduce the pressure behind the stretchy translucent leather stand-in so that it forms down into the cut away logo beneath, then perhaps if you had a layer that it pressed up against which was dark enough it would show through the stand-in material to give a 'burned effect'. If it's stretchy enough you could texturize that sublayer to give it a different appearance.
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Is that you, Adam Savage?
;)
Holy hell, man. How did you even come up with this idea? That's amazing! (I was thinking 'LCD marquee', but that idea - while not original - is so far beneath yours!) I love that idea.
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It was just the first thing that popped in my head. (:
danny_galaga:
Has Stingray seen this thread yet? ;D
Excellent job so far, and quite unique too. Looking forward to the finished product. As to the marquee, I was thinking of LCD too when I read Ricks post...