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griffindodd:
Hi OND thanks for chiming in on this one.

I've really liked the stuff that you have done in this area, great results. The reason I threw this little experiment together was to see how simple it could be for top mounters to achieve some nice effects with very limited tools and resources. While I am a huge fan of your work, I think your level of skill and craftsmanship is almost intimidating to some who'd like to get your results but probably give up before starting when they see the level of precision you work to.

Neph - the ribbon folds around the edges of the mounting plate and is paper thin, you don't really have to compensate for it at all.

If you wanted to cut down on the level of light showing through on the artwork, a simple sheet of black paper between your art and the dust washer would mask it out enough that the only light that would show would be the diffused dust washer disk.

The nice thing about this approach is that it doesn't need more than about 3-4mm of rebate to work well on top mounted sticks, it's compatible with existing LED controllers and it's very cheap to do with easy to find materials and virtually no special skills.

As with all of my proof of concepts, it's not meant to be the finished solution, but a jumping off point to encourage discussion and ideas from others with the hope of refining the ideas and coming up with something even better through the collective effort.

yaksplat:
I'd think that you could drill a hole in the CP wood, place the LED in the hole and then fill it with hot glue.  It'd probably take some testing to see how much light makes it through the glue, but it should result in the same effect for a bottom mount.
griffindodd:
Or you could stick led strip around the interior of the joystick hole
xefned:

King dick!   :o  Is a special label paper required for the artwork to let the light through? Or is that just coated inkjet paper?

I also like the LED strip around the joystick hole idea. The more subtle lighting approaches I find more appealing than the nuclear detonation type. I may have to experiment with some LED strips to see what I can come up with. (Cocktail build, where I'm debating the standard CP lighting for cocktails / bulbs behind white plexi.)
griffindodd:
That was just gloss photo paper I had laying around
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