Scratch Build – In Progress Project: Silent Element! 15 JAN 11 NEW PICS!

Shaping up really nice mate & will be an awesome fusion of aluminium, wood & acrylic .

 

Really looking forward to seeing the final result

 

Wow. That wood actually looks really good on that alu!

 

Very nice bending work (especially without a bender). I will be keeping my eye on this build.

 

This is turning into a really nice build

 

Kudos to you and your epoxy, it looks great!

 

Project: Silent Element! 27DEC10 NEW PICS!

 

Now that's something I would never have tried, hand planing aluminium. Great stuff mate.

 

Thanks Attila. I was frustrated with filing because I had been at if for 3 hours already and it was 43C in the shed. I was nervous at first cos I just sharpened the plane, but it was magic! Very easy to plane and it was a hell of a lot faster too. My plane is just as sharp seems. Still turned wood into paper after

 

Oh and Attila, Great website so far!! Cant wait until you have the guides part up I noticed an alloy and Jarra, (by the looks of it), floor lamp. Did you make that too? I have been designing some furniture and accessories like that and its good to see Australian timbers being used so well. I'm a wood nut!

 

Planing aluminium & it working fine , & wow 43c I'm freezing my bum off here .
Project is progressing nicely mate .

 

Wow how did I miss this in the beginning?! A really enjoyable read so far with some fantastic concepts. I have to dredge up on older posts and compliment you on how awesome that guitar looks!

Keep it up Navidson

 

The rugged but perfect fitting wood pieces will look gorgeous in the finished article .

 

Haha come to Australia and either get roasted, "locusted" or flooded. I had to help the town I'm in sandbag all the shops, houses, ect... One of the Cons in being in the Military

Thanks! yea that guitar is my baby! Soon this build will be too. I'll post them together once its done Keep watching for some guest appearances of the guitar as I work on both.

Yea I cant wait for the end result myself. I'm sort of making up the internals as I go. Its pretty exciting. Hope it goes well... lol

...if not

 

Just a little mock up on the internals. I'm still working out the dividers so everything is in its own compartment.

A small list of what the internals have to be:

Sectioned off
Neat
No cables showing
Good to look at through the window
Easy to pull apart
easy to work on outside the case
All power, sata, lighting, fan cables to be permanently integrated into the case so the PSU can be swapped out without disturbing the rest of the gear...

 

No happy medium in the world lol, your doing a good thing man so the modding gods & karma will smile upon you .

Sounds, looks & should be good .

 

So today whilst I'm doing stuff that takes forever I have posted some pics of my workshop (its a mess I just moved house), as you will see nothing impressive in there.

Just random bits and bobs for you too look at whilst I work on the Element...

 

Well I'm a big fan of your guitars mate (ultra nice) & from the look of your pc case I'm already a fan .

And getting back to the gas type for aluminium welding I know propane wasn't hot enough, so I think it's map/pro gas as it's the hottest commercially available, the propane would take ages to get it anywhere near the required heat & just didn't do the job & the sample my dad seen turned to liquid after a few seconds & just needed working to the piece with a screwdriver & made a solid joint . Now I know the gas type to get I might get some myself to try it out again .

 

thanks Waynio! yea findout that if it works well and I'll have to do the same

I'm going to try 1 more propane shot on this before switching gas.