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Hi Ben,

 Everything you mention is very true! I have spent MUCH more time designing, and fabricating my panels than actually building an actual circuit. There are many weekends that I have spent building stuff and not actually making cool sounds with them when they are done. In reality I have wanted to buy all that gear that you have collected, but I don't have the space to put it anywhere. A lot of those machines are big, and take up a lot of of real estate, but there is nothing better than the right tool for the job.

pete

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:30 AM, synthnut <synthnut@...> wrote:

 

Hi,
Watch out, it's a slippery slope when you start buying all this stuff to make your panels!
I started that many years ago and as you've found, there really isn't anything "cheap" that is any use. The Whitney hand punches in the deep series are usefull, but still very limited in the holes they will do. To give good folds you will need a sturdy folding brake as well. I probably have about $30,000 of punch tooling now if I was to go out and buy it all new again and still find I need new sizes!
Over the years I bought a guilotine, two folding brakes, two lever presses, a notching press and more to do my panels. It certainly wasn't an economical way to go about it!!!
This is all before you include all the kit required to do the screen printing and etching etc...

As it happens I really enjoy the mechanical side of building stuff, but unless you want this part of building panels to be your hobby rather than making music, beware, it's an all consuming thing!

Regards,
Ben

www.bigbluewave.co.uk

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