Making Custom Eurorack Front Panels?

[vidwizard]

And if I was doing it myself, I'd personally consider etched copper.

The good thing about copper is that it is easy to solder especially if you have a gas soldering iron, drills easy, is soft to bend and paints up well. Many years ago I had [as they do] the copper hot-water cylinder in the house fail, when I replaced the cylinder I kept the old one, removed the element, cut the top and bottom off, sliced the cylinder lengthways and still have what is left stored as a huge sheet of copper out in the garage. The tinned side is a light grey and great for drawing directly onto or affixing adhesive templates printed from the computer, the other side for doing coppery things like etching [as in the link you supplied] or in my case being a lazy arse, painting. I have made a number of enclosures [not eurorack but the principle is the same] out of this copper sheet for guitar effects-units I have designed based on the size of the Boss half-rack effects of the 80's.

Whoa! that's a pretty amazing way to get a bunch of copper

[Naenyn]

Would like to see some examples, des! Sounds good.

[des]

Would like to see some examples, des! Sounds good.

Sorry about not getting back earlier - didn’t realize there was a reply.. Apologies about pic size…I have to figure out how to shrink them on my iPhone…

Here’s a 1U I did using 1/16” acrylic and copper tape. The text is filled in with white acrylic paint and a matte clear coat sprayed over it. Two units front and back. Used a 55w CO2 laser to cut and engrave the acrylic.

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This is a panel I did using the panels from Antique Electronic supply. They’re black on one side with a white substrate and plain aluminum on the other side. Engraving done with a 5w diode laser.