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DaOld Man:
Hey man that is a cool project!
Great work.
I like the way your website is laid out too..
 :applaud:

patrickl:
Wow, that's really nice. Love the stain work.

metahacker:


--- Quote ---These things are sweeeeet. I have a few concerns that the silver might not match my cabinet, so as a backup plan, I’ve also bought 8 of the clips Arcade Depot sells, which are black anodised stainless. No big loss though, whichever set don’t suit this table, will be used on the next one I make.
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i would think you may be right about the silver.

here is one way to approach the problem:

you can paint the pieces with flat black.  then you can take a contrasting color that you like... and mix it with some thinner.  take something like a rag that wont lint it up too much, and wipe it into the engravings...or alternatively, paint it into the engravings ... either way, once you do that, and before it dries, wipe it with thinner.. it will leave some deposits in the engravings.. 

that's how i got the timing marks (and logo) on this crank pulley to show up (silver on grey).


it might also be interesting to see if you can flat black the thing and somehow get a gloss black to take on the engravings.  altho the technique is nice when you can have a contrasting color.  and especially nice if you use heavily thinned flat black and u have an object u want to give a more '3D' look.

at the same time, design wise... i tend to think the plain black brackets may be best bet considering how CLASSY your cocktail has turned out.
the other brackets are really cool but a bit too much 'fun'

destr0y:

--- Quote from: alexdog69 on October 10, 2007, 07:48:58 pm ---

--- Quote ---These things are sweeeeet. I have a few concerns that the silver might not match my cabinet, so as a backup plan, I’ve also bought 8 of the clips Arcade Depot sells, which are black anodised stainless. No big loss though, whichever set don’t suit this table, will be used on the next one I make.
--- End quote ---

i would think you may be right about the silver.

here is one way to approach the problem:

you can paint the pieces with flat black.  then you can take a contrasting color that you like... and mix it with some thinner.  take something like a rag that wont lint it up too much, and wipe it into the engravings...or alternatively, paint it into the engravings ... either way, once you do that, and before it dries, wipe it with thinner.. it will leave some deposits in the engravings.. 

that's how i got the timing marks (and logo) on this crank pulley to show up (silver on grey).


it might also be interesting to see if you can flat black the thing and somehow get a gloss black to take on the engravings.  altho the technique is nice when you can have a contrasting color.  and especially nice if you use heavily thinned flat black and u have an object u want to give a more '3D' look.

at the same time, design wise... i tend to think the plain black brackets may be best bet considering how CLASSY your cocktail has turned out.
the other brackets are really cool but a bit too much 'fun'


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Excellent idea mate, I love the gloss vs flat black concept.  I'll definitely give that a shot.  Thanks for the kind words too!

Cheers,
Brett

bleargh:

--- Quote from: alexdog69 on October 10, 2007, 07:48:58 pm ---you can paint the pieces with flat black.  then you can take a contrasting color that you like... and mix it with some thinner.  take something like a rag that wont lint it up too much, and wipe it into the engravings...or alternatively, paint it into the engravings ... either way, once you do that, and before it dries, wipe it with thinner.. it will leave some deposits in the engravings.. 

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Sounds just like how you'd get colour in your D&D dice (except we were rubbing in crayon into the depressions and wiping off the excess).

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