Process Pictures from the Forever Zero

There has been interest in how I created this enclosure.  I think next time I might try THREE LAYERS MWAHAHA.  I'm not sure if that is warranted or not though.  Anyways, below are two snapshots of the initial power point files and how I worked with them.  This first issue highlights one of the critical flaws I made.  The yellow and green highlighted ares are that of the actual PCB.  I just used a crude shape for the ZP Mini since the actual PCB has more indentations in it at the top, but it was just to get an idea. So this worked out excellently for viewing the horizontal spacing and where I would need to put the knobs, however you can see that I didn't include the dimensions of the input and output jacks.  Just looking at the yellow area, you can tell that it is too close to the top of the encosure.

The next step after the design was completed was to separate the "color layers".  On the far right is the finalized product, but i separated the two layers on the right hand side.  This is just making whichever colors you want "BLACK" so that they aren't effected by the light sensitive emulsion.  I usually try to make the image the colors I want first to get an idea and then convert it back to Black and Clear.  In this case, since the gold is the perimeter of the Reverb Knob, and looks to be on top of the white bands on the left hand side, I logistically decided that it would be layer 1.

Layer 1 also included the horizontal bar at the top so it made it a little bit easier for me to lineup with the enclosure, although sometimes it can still be tricky.

And here is the messy screen.  I was nervous about how it would come out at first, it is damn well near the worst "at-a-glance" looking screen I've made, but I can't argue with the end result.