Moe,
I'm sorry, I didn't intend to sound like I was demanding anything, or
asking
for anything extra for free. By "give away artwork" I just meant that
since
you would already have artwork for Stooge Panels that you'd use for the
engraving, you could consider putting that up for download by people who
want to try to stick with the original MOTM appearance. If for any
reason
that's not something you want to do, I understand completely and
certainly
don't have any hard feelings. And I wouldn't expect you to do new custom
art for me or anyone else -- I will do my own, I was just talking about
the
preexisting art for official Stooge Panels.
So let's say I'm just asking for prepainted punched panels.
As for the difficulty of personal silk screening, I'm sure you are
right. That is
not something I would choose to attempt if I have a better alternative.
It has
been great for us that the Stooges took care of all that hassle -- a
gift to the
MOTM community that we're all grateful for. I'm just saying that for my
own
personal part, I would try to learn how to do nice silk screening
before I
would put engraved modules into my synth.
I hope I don't sound like a jerk. As I said, I understand that silk
screened
panel runs have been a lot of trouble in the past and I understand why
the
Stooges may reasonably decide to offer something else instead, and I am
absolutely acknowledging the Stooges' right to do so, and certainly
neither I nor anyone else in the MOTM community will be mad or think any
less of the Stooges for it, and I will still gratefully buy other
products that the
Stooges choose to offer. (Cables! Please, more cables!)
I just don't want non-matching modules in my synth, that's all.
skw
On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:46 AM, mate_stubb wrote:
> Scott,
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you are asking for here. Prepainted panels,
> I understand. When you say "give away the artwork", I don't have any
> fpd artwork to give away, and I really don't have any interest in
> creating it. It's a LOT of work, and not really directly related to
> doing stooge panels. I happen to work in CorelDraw since that's what
> our original screen printer required. I hope I don't have to learn a
> new art program if we switch to engraving.
>
> With regards to doing you own silkscreening: if you don't have
> professional equipment already and experience, good luck. I went
> through the stage of trying to do it myself trying to produce the very
> first stooge panel. Those kits that you can buy to spread the emulsion
> on yourself, expose to light, etc. are hardly adequate for t shirts,
> much less high resolution text on metal. The screens I came out with
> were also flimsy, hardly able to print more than 1 pass. It was pretty
> disgusting!
>
> Moe
>
>
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Scott K Warren <scott@r...> wrote:
> >
> > Me again --
> >
> > If the Stooges do supply punched Polan panels to Paul S, I hope
> you'll
> > also offer punched Polan for Stooge Panels and my custom panel
> designs,
> > even if you don't want to mess with silk screening them.
> >
> > If you don't want to offer silk screening, then I will be happy to
> buy
> > blank (non-engraved) punched Polan panels and silk screen them
> myself.
> > This would be easier if you gave away artwork for Stooge Panels, but
> > I would also be willing to create my own artwork for silk screening.
> >
> > FrontPanelExpress says they will take my blank Polan panel (which I
> buy
> > from Paul S) and fabricate my .fpd design into it. If my design has
> just
> > the holes and not the graphics, this is not too expensive. But it
> would
> > really be great if I could get the same result from Stooge
> Industries
> > without the hassle of ordering a blank, waiting for it to arrive,
> and
> > then shipping it to FPE. Even better for Stooge Panels, since I
> probably
> > wouldn't need to provide an fpd file.
> >
> > In any of these cases I'd do my own silk screening. I would rather
> have
> > somebody else do it, but I'll do it rather than switch to engraving.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > skw
>
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