Dome glass

Sorry for not updating this blog for a while, but I will try to finish it now with some photos of the last steps.

The dome glass have been missing from beginning. I thougt it would be a piece of a cake to get a new glass, but it was impossible to find any glass at all! So I had to create a "glass" my self.

I bought a 4 mm thick SAN plastic sheet and made a curved template of wood (dont have any photos of it). Then I cut the plastic to the correct dimention and fixated it on the template.  I warmed the plastic carfully with my heat gun and let the plastic be bolted to the template for 4 weeks. I ended up with a pretty decent curved plastic sheet, not perfect but good enough!

Meanwhile waiting for the plastic to take the correct form, I made a Photoshop print file with the text 120, HI-FI and the large V-shape,  only the white, black and red colors was used here and the label was mounted to the backside of the plastic sheet.

If anyone needs the Photoshop files I can provide them, just make a note in this blog.

Here are my airbrush stuff which I used to paint the front top layer gold color with.

You can also see the Frisket masking film used to cut out the text "120". 

It took hours to make a perfect cutout, if you miss, there will be a hairline in the SAN plastic not possible to remove later!

Close up of the gold text & bottom line.

Of cource the gold text will be fragile but after hardening it seems to be quite ok.

Now it really looks like a real doome glass!

I also made this label.

 The dull & scratchy anodized aluminum frame was polished to gloss.

 Sorry but I dont have any photo on the finished doom glass, will upload it later.......