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Offline Doc B.

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on: November 07, 2012, 11:06:09 AM
We have been assembling a couple of Seduction preamps for Ball and Buck and I thought it would be a good time to update the product shots on the Seduction web page to show what currently looks like. Here it is with its new chassis finish:
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and another view to show the brushing a little better:
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and here is what the underside looks like these days:
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Offline Grainger49

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Reply #1 on: November 07, 2012, 11:18:52 AM
Nice shots as always.  It is a bit different than my first production run Seduction.

Is the Dayton an interstage cap?  Is that what is shipping now?



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Reply #2 on: November 07, 2012, 11:43:21 AM
So if I just ordered a S.E.X will it come with the new plate finish?

That looks pretty snazzy.


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Reply #3 on: November 07, 2012, 12:15:23 PM
@grainger, yeah right now we are using those Daytons for the interstage. The kit has been around for 12 years now, and the caps have changed over time as some have gone out of production and others have come into production.

@Stephen, yes that is the finish on all of our panels now. I use a wire brush in a drill. The entire panel is brushed at 45 degree angle and then I rotate the brush 90 degrees and do a random pattern to create a sort of cross hatch. Did about 30 panels yesterday. It's been a few years since I did the industrial production line thing, glad I have IEMs and Pandora on my phone to boogie to! The finish looks better in person, it's proven a little difficult to photograph and catch both angles of the brush marks.

Here's a Tode I just built for myself showing the same finish:
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Reply #4 on: November 08, 2012, 09:55:00 AM
WOW!!!! I love the new finish!!!! using those hints you gave I may have to do this on my Stereomour (I have the tools and used to work in machine shop building BattleBots (I wish that show was still on it was fun work)) by your standards is it difficult to do, or rather straight forward to do?

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Reply #5 on: November 08, 2012, 11:33:55 AM
Thanks for the kind words! We had some panels bead blasted when we went to this new approach of getting the panels raw from the laser cutter rather than sending them to a grainer. While the panel was getting blasted I had the idea to try brushing one. Side by side the brushed panel looked way more interesting than the blasted one, so I decided to go with it. It's not difficult to do, except that it's the kind of thing where if two people each do a panel the pattern will probably look rather different. That is why I have been doing all of the panels myself so far. At some point I will train others to emulate the pattern I have come up with. The base pattern of the first 45 degree pass is easy, you just make sure the rotating brush stays at 45 degrees to the edges of the panel and that coverage is thorough and even. The second pass at 90 degrees rotation is where the art comes into play. Helps to have some funky shit on the headphones so you can wiggle your ass a bit while you "dance" the brush randomly over the surface.

Usual caveats apply - clamp the panel down securely, wear ear and eye protection and a respirator - you don't want to breathe aluminum dust. I clamp at two opposite corners, do all the panel except the two corners, then take one clamp off, carefully touch up one corner, repeat on the other corner while holding the panel firmly against the work surface. Be careful with the brush as it wants to catch the panel edge when it rotates into it. If you screw up you can do over, but if you keep grinding away at a spot you will start to create an uneven look.

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