Look what I 'made' today :-)

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So I have a tv, tx2, deezer feed and provision for a bluetooth feed all going into a single aux socket on the overture. A switch box was in order and a few pounds on eBay bought me a four way switch which worked a treat.

Two problems , one is that neither I or the dear wife could remember which position related to each feed, so labelling was required, the other thing was the box wasn't all that nice to look at, even though it mostly hidden in a cupboard.

So I decided to give it a facelift.

a bit of aluminium with a sublimation coating, cut to size, some appropriate symbols downloaded from the web, a couple of logos ( sorry b & o) , some artwork, printing and heat press and we have a new faceplate. Drill a hole in the right place, replace switch nut and add a dash of double sided tape and voila!

i appreciate it won't be one for the purists (sorry guys) and I'll probably have to destroy it when I get the lawyers letter, but as I was doing something else similar thought it might be a bit of fun for a Friday afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures sorted - must be an ipad issue as its fine on the iMac 

 

DJ

And I thought I'd make a little key tag (this time with a gold finish as that seems all the rage at the moment :-)

 

What device are you using?

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Steffen wrote:

What device are you using?

 

Sorry can't remember off hand I'll have a look through my ebay purchases and get back to you. Only cost around £12.95 IIRC and there are a few similar models - I choose this one as it was four way with a flat front panel which is what I wanted for this 'project'

DJ

 

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Dave Hutton wrote:

And I thought I'd make a little key tag (this time with a gold finish as that seems all the rage at the moment :-)

You have a new career !

Nice thingy and nice diy.
But sorry I don't get it, why put a companys logo and name on something they didn't make?
Would you like others to put your name and logo on something they made themselves?
Why not just put your own name on it?

Beautiful work Dave ! Thanks for sharing.

As long as you don't make money with this B&O personalized switch, you're safe

@ Minuscat : You ask an important question. But where's the limit?
Are you a cat? 😕
So why didn't you use your photo for your avatar?
Would you like cats use your photo as their avatar?

By the way, does this drawing belongs to you?

As I said, it's a bit of fun for a Friday afternoon.

I am expected to be able to show samples of my work to my customers, whether that be my embroidered or printed clothing, mugs, engraved glassware, engraved and printed metal etc. It's usual and expected that a variety of logos are used for this to best show off the a the actual product and the process used to achieve the end result. So I try to have some samples that a customer would be able to relate to their needs.

So for example I've added below a picture of a nice heavy lead crystal tankard, best shown off using a traditional looking rugby club crest (I didn't make many of those but ended up using the crest on the annual presentation hip flasks for the last few years) , it would'nt look quite so nice with say a logo from a low budget clearance shop chain , or my name. So in the unlikely event of me being contacted by sony to print the face plates for their latest product I can show them the finish that can be acheived with something relevant to their industry 🙂

so that's the reason, there's not really an intent to make out its a b&o switch box any more than inferring that Landrover make shot glasses (and I've done that as well)

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