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The finishing outside walls have now been attached to the unit and the nice internal artwork (BTC white paper) has been added in.
I still need to:
1) make some small tweaks to the outside walls
2) put some filters on the outside vents
3) make the table top piece
4) and some other things when I remember
Starting to look good now! 😎
Might change my name to OrangePoW because the thing I'm making looks like a something now...
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When I was not busy making the outside of the unit look nice, I kept busy making the inside of the unit look nice.
I created a custom BTC white paper with a black background and orangey/gold colour writing.
I used Photoshop to do this and it took a while to figure how to get everything perfect... I'm talking super high resolution pixel perfection. I had to educate myself on how to use Photoshop but I did it in the end. **sigh of relief**
I preserved the white paper style to a 99.99% accuracy so it looks like the original but with different colours.
3 pages of the whitepaper were printed of each of the 3 metal panels. These all sit inside the top of the unit to help with sound proofing. When you lift the table top up, you are greeted by Satoshi's BTC white paper or should I say black & orange paper. 🙌
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To keep an even gap between each panel and the floor, I used a wooden block to check each wooden strip on each panel.
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Next up I applied the very nice acoustic wooden panels to the outside of the unit.
1) I marked off the top of the unit and the bottom of the unit by a small margin so there is a slight gap between the panels and the floor, and the panels and the table top.
2) Used a knife to score the outside of the units walls, the rugged surface will provide more grip for the panels when glueing.
3) Used a clamp, a spirit level and a small block of wood to make sure things are level and secure.
4) Added glue to the panels and stuck them on. Quite a timing consuming process this is because you have to wait for the glue to dry and there were many panels to attach.
5) Had some issues with symmetry as mentioned in the prior posts, so I had to make a few manual adjustments by taking the nice wood off the black felt and re applying it.
6) Had to fill in some gaps with some felt to cover off any light white/brown areas.
7) When clamping I used some cardboard and newspaper to avoid damaging the nice wood.
8) Goggles, mask and gloves are usually worn. (well I try not to forget)
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More on the process of cutting those finishing pieces (american black walnut veneered wood with acoustic felt backing).
I used two clamps to clamp down a straight piece of wood against the stuff that I want to cut to size. The blueish straight piece of wood is a guide rail which makes cutting in a straight line much easier because I will be cutting the material with a fine tooth hand saw. Between the guide rail and the finishing material is some tissue to protect the nice wood. I used a fine tooth saw because these are finishing pieces that need to be cut cleanly and not look jagged. The guide rail is used to ensure I cut it straight, after all, it is the finishing pieces so it's gotta look greeeeeat.
After some time I got all the pieces cut, around 20 different pieces of various sizes depending on how they would be attached to the unit.
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