Members saw wave analog Posted December 20, 2007 Members Share Posted December 20, 2007 well.. this synth has come a long way.. i picked it up a while ago nonfunctional for 50 bucks and have been slowly bringing it back to life over the past few years. i posted it up for sale a couple weeks ago as a functional but ugly looking synth, but after playing with it a bit to get it ready to sell i decided that i may as well just finish all of the work i had originally planned to do on it when i picked it up years ago.. well, i am almost done.. here are a couple pics.. there are before obviously.. when i bought it it looked like it had been in a wet garage for years.. rusty as hell, all of the silders and switches were totally shot and rusted in place.. it would power on intermittently and produced no sound. i replaced the innards of all the stock sliders and reused the stock casings since i couldnt find any new ones that matched the pcb, repaired a crack on the control board pcb, cleaned the hell out of the keyboard, and tracked down and took care of some bad solder joints in the power supply.. pow a functional synth it sounded and worked very nicely at this point, but looked pretty beat well.. it stayed like that for a while, until recently i guess my winter time need to work on something kicked in, so i pulled it apart and went to town on it.. sanded the hell out of the front panel, added some nice red backlighting to the control pcb with the help of a few trusty led's, and relabled it all in red.. what do you think? i bought the supplies to paint the control panel an almondy off white that matches the keys almost perfectly.. it would kind of give it an oberheim 4 voice or white odyssey vibe.. i always thought that was a cool look for a synth.. but i like it in the raw steel like it is now too. i painted the mod wheel piece the white color so thats what the whole front panel would look like.. with the black end cheeks. either way, i am going to stencil on some nicer graphics on the front panel than it has now.. i just dont want to put the time into it now if i decide to paint it white tomorrow so far im pretty happy with it.. sure looks a hell of a hot nicer than it did before.. the factory plastic end cheeks are in real good shape and the keys are all straight and nice so it actually looks like a nice board now.. sounds pretty damn sweet too if i hang on to it it will be midified soon.. if i do decide to sell it though, do you think it is fair to expect the same price as a decent stock one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members orangefunk Posted December 20, 2007 Members Share Posted December 20, 2007 Nice work.. i like the Oberheim idea... just wondering how easy it is to do silk screens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mysteron Posted December 20, 2007 Members Share Posted December 20, 2007 This is cool. anyone else done something similar to an old piece of gear? Many moons ago I did something similar to an old CRT monitor and it looked like it came right off the flight deck of the Nostromo. This is a great way to add some uniqueness to your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saw wave analog Posted December 20, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 20, 2007 Nice work.. i like the Oberheim idea... just wondering how easy it is to do silk screens? its not difficultt at all it just takes a bit of specialized equipment to do a nice one.. photo emulsion and a bulb to activate it, and a fine mesh screen.. its more of a pain in the ass than it is hard heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gunslinger69 Posted December 20, 2007 Members Share Posted December 20, 2007 well.. this synth has come a long way.. i picked it up a while ago nonfunctional for 50 bucks and have been slowly bringing it back to life over the past few years. i posted it up for sale a couple weeks ago as a functional but ugly looking synth, but after playing with it a bit to get it ready to sell i decided that i may as well just finish all of the work i had originally planned to do on it when i picked it up years ago.. well, i am almost done.. here are a couple pics.. there are before obviously.. when i bought it it looked like it had been in a wet garage for years.. rusty as hell, all of the silders and switches were totally shot and rusted in place.. it would power on intermittently and produced no sound. i replaced the innards of all the stock sliders and reused the stock casings since i couldnt find any new ones that matched the pcb, repaired a crack on the control board pcb, cleaned the hell out of the keyboard, and tracked down and took care of some bad solder joints in the power supply.. pow a functional synth it sounded and worked very nicely at this point, but looked pretty beat well.. it stayed like that for a while, until recently i guess my winter time need to work on something kicked in, so i pulled it apart and went to town on it.. sanded the hell out of the front panel, added some nice red backlighting to the control pcb with the help of a few trusty led's, and relabled it all in red.. what do you think? i bought the supplies to paint the control panel an almondy off white that matches the keys almost perfectly.. it would kind of give it an oberheim 4 voice or white odyssey vibe.. i always thought that was a cool look for a synth.. but i like it in the raw steel like it is now too. i painted the mod wheel piece the white color so thats what the whole front panel would look like.. with the black end cheeks. either way, i am going to stencil on some nicer graphics on the front panel than it has now.. i just dont want to put the time into it now if i decide to paint it white tomorrow so far im pretty happy with it.. sure looks a hell of a hot nicer than it did before.. the factory plastic end cheeks are in real good shape and the keys are all straight and nice so it actually looks like a nice board now.. sounds pretty damn sweet too if i hang on to it it will be midified soon.. if i do decide to sell it though, do you think it is fair to expect the same price as a decent stock one? I would paint it, preferably with an automotive base and clear, using an HVLP gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saw wave analog Posted December 20, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 20, 2007 the paint is thinned rustoleoum thinned 50/50 with mineral spirits and wetsanded after every 2 coats. comes out looking just like sprayed base clear and is tough like stove paint. just not sure if i want to do it yet.. probably will.. all white is sounding pretty neato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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