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BLACK'S MAGIC- 100% Structurally COMPLETE - PHOTO UPDATES 7-23-2010
rablack97:
Yeah, I found one the minute you made the comment about one being in orange. I didnt know how serious you were about getting one so I didnt sasy anything about it. Yeah they are really cool, the work like the plasma ball, you can touch it and the electricity follows your hand. They are super sensitive and accurate to sound. Just talking around the thing it flashes right along with your conversation. It was able to pick up even a finger snap.
Cool thing about it, is that i'm going to place the sound sensor for the speaker rings near the woofers, the lumin disks will pick up more on the highs and mids. So should make for an interesting effect....
rablack97:
Few pic updates
Routed the front of the keyboard drawer......
Didn't too much care for the wide open look inside of the cab, nor the idea of placing a decased PC on the floor so I filled it up a bit with a 3 piece unit.
I also wanted to hide the power strips and power supplies as well.
So I figured I would create a shelf, with the bottom section used to hide the power strip for all the plugins and the power supply for the amp. The top section will hold the decased PC.
The panel running across the center will have a panel that will have headphones jack and USB outputs....Haven't ordered the panel yet.
PC shelf
Side Mounting Brackets
Installed
Top - The cutout is will have plexi on the inside, and the the inner portion of the rectangle has been routed for light blue t-molding
Bottom
Complete
A 10" blue neon light will be mounted behind the plexi to show off the decased PC in case anyone ever wants to see it.
I am also going to mount my amp horizontally across the botttom false front, which will be lit up by 2 strips of leds.
Keep in mind all of this will be painted a flat black, didnt see a reason to gloss the inside. The top and bottom pieces will have handles for easy removal and will be stabilized with double roller spring catches.
http://www.rockler.com/gallery.cfm?Offerings_ID=148&TabSelect=Details
Once the whole thing was put together, the door stop was hindering the shelf from being removed, so i have to cut a slot in the door stop so the shelf could slide through
Amazing how far you have to think ahead to get this thig up and running.
Since the PC and the amp will be lit up, I only wanted this effect when the door was opened. So I am going to install a few normally open switches connected to the led and neon lighight on the door stop. Door opens, lights, door closed no lights. So no light bleeding through the cracks when the door is shut. Sorry for the blur.
Here is the mount for my admin panel....
This will not be hard mounted, it will be removable using the same double roller spring catches. This piece will also be the retainer for the glass. More on that later.
Here is the mock photo of everything just laying together. Can't attach until paint is done.
Full Shot
Finally, I started my attempt at Gamester's Bling Candy Coated paint job, check out his thread if you haven't seen it, it's something to see.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=94891.160
His process took a week or so I think, I did this test in 1 day, so it's not his quality yet. This will be the skin on my cab.....
Testing.......
Thats if for now, more to come later......
Gamester:
Looking real good! You're absolutely right about having to think ahead a lot -- it's like a chess match.
I think some of your image links need fixing. Some of the pics are tiny, and I know they're not supposed to be, based on your post in the "image" thread. I bet you mistakenly did "Copy Image Location" instead of "Copy Link Location" when you were copying and pasting some of your URLs into the post. EDIT: Yay, you fixed it... ;)
Keep up the good work!
rablack97:
Whoops, thanks, i fixed all the photos......
I returned all my brushes and gallon paint cans and trays.
3 cans of primer
2 cans of high gloss black
3 cans of metallic
3 cans of clear coat
1 can flat black (inside cab and inside CP)
1 bottle of Meguiar's swirl X
1 bottle of Meguiar's hi-tech yellow carnuba wax
1 10" orbital buffer
Polishing bonnetts, and a few terry cloth bonnetts.
I test sprayed the metallic on a small strip of the gloss black and oooooooooweeeeee it was shiney. Can't wait to go through the entire process.
Paint $40.00
Buffer $19.00
Wax & Swirl X $30.00
Bonnetts $15.00
$105 paint job...... :angry: but well worth it
Epyx:
Looking great! I think the lumen discs with the neon rings are going to look fantastic. By the way my 15" greens arrived the other day. Thanks again for that lead! ;)