Fresh from the oven

They look like Hershey Bars straight out of the oven. 
 
Tasty.
 
Amps, speaker and mics.  You are quite the music industrialist.  Still, I hope I don't find any McCue products at GC.  You won't have time to post here.
 
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Cool.  Or should I say hot? 
 
They look good, Mike.

Oh, you're serious. Yeah, Mike, that's good stuff!
 

mike_mccue
Name plates for my home made amps and speakers:
 

 
 

Thanks for the positive comments!
 
Some of my projects take years of baby steps so it's nice to get to show off some of the stuff that actually gets accomplished.
 
For example; the milling machine I made these on is more often waiting for me to perform a repair than actually making anything for me. Baby steps.
 
:-)

Good style - like them a lot!

Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback. :-)
 
Hi Jay, the metal is aluminum bar stock that I "carved" into with a mill. That's how I made the basic shaping. I then spray painted the metal black and surface sanded the tops so the lettering shows as silver. I baked them at 170 degrees Fahrenheit to harden the paint.
 
I didn't have to deal with slag etc.
 
There was a slight smell of fumes... it's a gas oven so it burns them fairly effectively. It smelled far less onerous than using something like EZ Off as an oven cleaner.
 
My wife makes stuff too so it's not hard to get permission to do stuff like this at my place. :-)
 
 
Patagonia has done some fantastic things with the success they have had. I admire their work.
 
I'm just making stuff to feed my curiosity, to share with friends, and to express my enjoyment of no holds barred construction quality.
 
best regards,
mike

Yes you may... but I'd never let the cat out of the bag. :-)
 
It's actually hard to say; The chunk of aluminum is dirt cheap... 3 or 4 dollars. The machine I made it on costs more than I want to admit. I break that machine with regularity. It usually breaks my heart when it happens. The only reason I fix it rather than throw it out the window is that it costs more than I'd like to admit. :-)
 
It also took a long while to figure out how to program the machine so that it doesn't auto-robotically cut it self in half.
 
The guitar amps them selves have about $400 in parts in the "head'. They are similar to the $2500 boutique amps that a 100 other guys make and sell but I'm not making them to sell so I spend extra time making them as if I am making them for me. The speakers and speaker cabinets are an additional expense. I build my cabinets with finger joints, and use my favorite speakers because, as they say... you only live once. :-)
 
best regards,
mike