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[bigal]

Hey, I've been wanting a laser-etched window for a while now, but I want a custom image - not some standard image that you'll see on a few hundred PC's. I've just stumbled upon a company that appears to do excellent work, and I'm wondering if any of you fellow modders have seen some of these windows in person, or if you have any information regarding the company. They advertise in PC Magazine's "Extreme Tech", and I'm looking at the new Fall 2005 issue right now on page 15.
Company: Hyperkore
Web site: www.hyperkore.com
Laser-etched windows: www.hyperkore.com/etching/blackout.html
Sample:

I think I just might have to give these folks a try. I gave up on www.xport1.com a while ago. Nothing but excuses there.

[The Modfather]

Does it have to be laser? What about hand etched? I do my own etching and if you've got an image that you want I could do a hand etch for you. It's more expensive but then, it is hand done artwork and not some lame machine done stuff.

[bigal]

....is the blackout of the window, where the cold cathode light from within shines through. I don't think you have a method of blacking out the window, assuming that just painting the window with black paint won't give the same effect.
I have several laser-etched windows, and for a detailed image, I can't imagine how doing it by hand will provide the same level of detail. Do you have some pictures of your hand-etched windows?

[The Modfather]

Yeah, you put one of them in the screensaver, remember? The whole Titan rig is hand etched. The Indian head on the Chopper is also hand etched.
If you want a deep etch, more of an engraving, that's a different story. And I'm not sure what you mean by blacking out, you mean just a spot where it's blanked so you don't see the CCFL?

[bigal]

..I forgot about the pictures in the screensaver.
Anyway, I am talking about a deeper etch, and one that is photo-realistic. The blackout area is large - all areas of the window not etched are blacked out, as far as I can tell.

[The Modfather]

Oh... Hmm, never seen that before... I guess that would work though. I've wanted to experiment with getting a window to light up that way, doing a deep engraving and using LED's. Initially I was going to do that on the Chopper but I could never get the damned LEDs to work. Dunno if it'd do the trick though since that's not a very deep etching on that plexi and it's just a thin sheet, like 1/8th".

[unholy]

easiest way to do that sorta stuff is laser, it cuts very finely, so there would be no stuff ups (maybe would depends on the machine and machine user).
What do u mean by couldn't get the LED's to work?
Did u get the wrong Voltage, or just just got faulty ones?

[The Modfather]

I'm not totally sure, I got them in large lots, like 1000 LEDs in a big bag, yellow, red and uv ones, we tried switching them out but never could get it to work. I wanted to avoid having to use a resistor so we tried to get the voltage matched but still had no luck so we just scrapped the idea outright.

[XhArD]

So you have a bag of 1000 red, yellow and UV LEDs? Can I have them?

[bigal]

Originally Posted by XhArD

So you have a bag of 1000 red, yellow and UV LEDs? Can I have them?

....and he's standing there, going through the dead guys wallet, saying to himself, "Well self, he can't use these credit cards anymore, so go ahead and run up some charges!".....