Don't post stuff I make often...
Just finished this this afternoon. I made neon letters a while ago - one for each of our kids. Making neon letters, especially small ones, is tricky particularly when, like me, your hot glass skills are mediocre at best. I had several false starts and maybe 5 failures for each letter I successfully completed to filling with gas & bombarding etc. This tube is actually argon rather than neon filled - argon gives a very light blue/whiteish light rather than the orange of neon. I cunningly call these "Letter Boxes". Subtle, eh?
So, this is "R" for Robert. The box is oak reclaimed from an old shelf with Macassar Ebony splines. The letter is backed by a nice piece of Honduras Rosewood. The back is birch faced very thin ply recovered from the base of an old drawer, held in place by socketed M3 bolts to discourage prying fingers - there's 2000V in the box. Finish is Liberon Finishing Oil.
The high voltage sign transformer and a Sonoff wireless/internet switch (so the unit can be controlled from my son's phone) are in another tamper-proof box with special high voltage cable connecting it to the letter.
Colour in the photos is a bit green as something in the electronics is confusing my phone camera.
One more to make yet..
Yet another non audio project ..
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#1 Yet another non audio project ..
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#2 Re: Yet another non audio project ..
Nice woodwork. I've thought about making amp chassis is a similar style. One day maybe.
#3 Re: Yet another non audio project ..
That it rather cool!
#4 Re: Yet another non audio project ..
Are you sure? Oh, you said you thought about it. I get itsimon wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 3:56 pm Nice woodwork. I've thought about making amp chassis is a similar style. One day maybe.
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#5 Re: Yet another non audio project ..
That's gone over my head Greg, no idea what you were getting at
#6 Re: Yet another non audio project ..
Not sure if you are being facetious or serious. Having viewed your lovely sounding yet well spread out breadboarded constructions, I was wondering about you getting them inside a chassis, let alone a nicely polished wood option. Sorry, my humour not hitting the mark. Ignore me. Nothing to see here….move on……
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#7 Re: Yet another non audio project ..
Ah! I see! Hey, we all have to have a dream . Probably when I'm retired.
(You should see my latest - for a simple 45 SE it's remarkably "rats nest" thrown together.)
(You should see my latest - for a simple 45 SE it's remarkably "rats nest" thrown together.)