project name finalized: Heavey

OK, it's decided.  This project is hereby named "Heavey".  After lugging this durned thing 1400 miles up to Seattle, yes, I can attest, there is no better name for it.  Even with one speaker removed.  Still too "heavey".  Takes a lot of heaving.  Ugh.

And of course, I had to make an official logo for it, because that's how I am:


Ta da.

To make this logo, I took an existing Peavey logo (off another amp, since it was missing on the VTX in question) and photocopied it.  Then I printed out a pagefull of 1mm grid squares (with the 10mm lines thicker, for reference).  I.e., "graph paper".  Then I lined the two sheets up and used a sharp point to poke through both sheets at all the corner points of the Peavey logo.  This allowed me to take-off the coordinates of the points, to 0.5mm precision.  I put these into a PostScript file, and then made some minor visual adjustments until it looked right.  Then, I printed the reconstructed logo on top of the 1mm grid, minus the "P".  Then I drew an "H" that looked about right onto the grid, took-off those coordinates, and voila, after some more slight adjustments, you can see my result.  Not bad, IMHO.

Since I don't have the CNC machining capability which I eventually plan to obtain for my work, I think I will try putting this logo on a sheet of aluminum, using tape-masking and black spraypaint.  The procedure here will be to first create a "sandwich" of aluminum sheet (roofing aluminum), superglued onto a backing of pressboard.  That's glued and clamped as I write this.  Then I'll cut the panel to the desired outer dimensions (just using a plain rectangle, not the more form-fitting outline shape that real Peavey logos use).  I may try sanding the aluminum surface to get the "brushed aluminum" look, like the real logos.  I'll cover the surface with clear packing tape, then attach the printed logo (maybe just with tape around the edges, or maybe supergluing to the packing tape surface to get tighter adhesion).  I'll cut the logo outlines through the paper and the tape layer with a hobby knife, and then remove all the outer (negative space) portions, leaving the letters masked.  Then, a couple coats of paint, peel the letters, and I should either have a nice-looking shiny aluminum logo, or a paint-smeared mess.  Hopefully the former.  It may take more than one attempt to get something that looks right, but that's OK, no harm done...


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