> Nice work (again) Julian.
>
> In fact I've been admiring the 606 monster that you delivered to
> Babaluma over at Muff Wigglers, sublime.
>
> David

Thank you, David.

Thats one forum im not actually on, but Gregg (babaluma) sent me the link when he first posted pictures.

I should really make another of those 606s. The other one of the pair that Gregg has sold for a lot of money on ebay, but they take a long time to do, and ive got a real adversion to ebay at the moment.

If i were to do another, i wouldnt use printed overlays, but engrave the whole panel. I dont find the printed overlay accurate enough for my likings - there always seems to be a tiny bit of shrinkage, and ive tried to compensate, but its not ideal. At least with the engraving, i know whats going on all the time, and, as i built the cnc machine, if there ever is an issue, i know what to do about it.

Im not sure as itlld look better or not though. Its not apparent from the outside, but the boards in that rack 606 are held in place inside by bolts that go through the front panel. These are countersunk, and then filled and smoothed over the top, before the overlay is put on (so theyre invisable from the outside). With an engraved finish stuff like this wouldnt be possible, and there is not enough thickness of panel to simply have blind tapped holes. So the bolts would have to be visable on the outside.

A4 stainless stays shiny all the time (its the same as i use on the x0xb0x units) and the allen cap bolts look quite nice, in an industrial sort of way, but, even so, im not sure....

At present im working on a rack mount edp wasp for a customer who doesnt even have a case for his machine. Itll be a 2u midi only device (no keyboard) with engraved front.

Ive been testing out my wasp artwork recently (lifted from the original, retouched, and converted to vectors for the engraving machine) See -

http://www.thebeast.co.uk/wasp_sample.jpg

Julian