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The cabinet is almost done now! It is made out of 18mm Birch plywood and there are 4 layers of Mahogany stain applied now. I still have to do one or two layers of protective lacquer. Today I made four Aluminum rails where the modules will mount to. Unfortunately, I couldn’t finish the last two […]
Finished the basic structure of the new cabinet today. The cabinet is glued together now so I have to wait until tomorrow for the glue to dry. I changed the side panels a little bit. They are now a fluid line instead of the three angled slopes in the Sketchup design in my previous post. […]
I wanted to start working on the cabinet but due to circumstances I didn’t have time today. Instead, I played some more with the design and came up with something better. The footprint of this cabinet is larger than the previous one but it looks much more Buchla. So this is the one I’m going […]
I’m playing around with Google Sketchup and, as a practical exercise, I’m designing a new cabinet for my Buchla 200 clone. I wanted it to be as compact as possible and came up with the design to the left. The height of the cabinet is 616 mm (24.3″), it’s 684 mm (26.9″) wide and 240mm […]
I worked on a couple of front panel prototypes for my Buchla 200 modules today. I used the same technique as I used for the Buchla 291 clone I’m building: designing in Front Panel Designer, print out on paper and using 3mm scrap wood for the prototype panel. From left to right: Dual Oscilator Model […]
Today I finished the Resonant Lopass Gate I had lying, half finished, on my workbench for some time. It is a derivative by Thomas White of the famous Buchla 292c Lopass Gate. It is a gate with selectable amplitude-dependent spectral characteristics. Knob settings and applied control voltages determine the levels and cutoff frequency. It uses […]
