Give your homebrewed amp a facelift with a new faceplate!
We have two in-house engraving machines that allows just about anything to be engraved into laserable materials, The engraving bed size is 600mm x 400mm allowing most faceplates, control panel and logo’s to be easily made. We can also provide design work for faceplates, just let us know what controls you have, the hole spacing and overall panel size and we can draw up a faceplate to suit your amp.
You can see other examples in the link below or check out our facebook page for more customer photo's
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Working out the cost of a faceplate is now easy, just use the table below to get the price for your plate
*Design Cost will be charged for any order where a scaled DXF or Coral Draw X4 file is not supplied for a custom design.
STOCKED COLOURS: We keep the following colour combinations in stock.
Front engraving (Front colour/Engraved Colour) Brushed Gold/Black Brushed Silver/Black Black/White Other non stocked colours available: See pictures below. STOCK SIZES: We stock standard 1.5mm thick material cut to 590mm x 300 mm pieces, for a quick turn around keep your faceplate/logo within these limits.
DESIGN SERVICES: If you have a basic idea as to what you want we are able to draw up a faceplate design to meet your needs, The a fixed cost of £25.00 will be added to the cost of manufactuing the faceplate. Designs will be submitted in PDF format for approval proir to any engraving.
Please note there is no design charge for simple changes to our standard faceplates.
FILE REQUIREMENTS: Faceplates and logo’s must be designed in AutoCAD and saved as a DXF year 2000 or in Coral Draw X4 format to be easily imported into the machine software.
Please note designs drawn on other software may not export correclty
We utilise both AutoCAD and CorelDraw x4. Older versions of both these software packages are available cheaply online and can also be used for detailed chassis and layout drawings.
See link below for Info on creating your faceplate files
CAD File Help
Picture type files can be used however a design charge will be levied as the artwork will have to be converted/redrawn into a vector format (See above)
SPECIAL FONTS: Any non-Standard fonts must be supplied with the DXF/CAD file. There are various free font websites available and there are often free alternatives to costly fonts i.e. “London Tube” is a free version similar to “London Underground” as used by Marshall.
WHAT WE WONT DO: We wont make any logo’s or faceplates that are currently registered trademarks of any 3rd party company.
This includes Trainwreck, Marshall Block logos, Hiwatts, Dumble etc
All work carried out is done under the acceptance that the purchaser has the right to use the artwork.