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The Lights have gone out.
I am sorry to announce that I am closing Kaytrim's Kustoms for the time being. I am facing personal, family and other issues that need to take priority. The amount of time and effort involved to creating these works of art is large. However the amount of profit doesn't pay for that time. This is due to the fact that I take pride in my work and want my customers to be happy with the end result for years to come. I will reopen in the future but there will be changes to the way I do business. There will be more details after I have taken care of the important things in my life.
Current orders will be completed as soon as I can. There will be delays as I deal with my personal issues but they will be finished. I know that those of you with current orders have already experienced delays and broken promises. However I will prevail and finish your orders.
Anyone with price quotes or requests that have been sent in will not be followed up. I feel that it would be a disservice to you to keep your hopes up. I am not sure what shape this business will take in the future so it is best to cancel all outstanding requests that have yet to be started.
Yours Truly,
Michael Dove
Owner
Curly Maple Steam Punk Joystick
The customer didn’t really like the standard transtint green because it was too bright. He also liked the cordovan color and thought that having the two colors on the case would be nice. I didn’t like the possible problem of the colors bleeding together in the corners. So on the test piece I mixed the two colors as a sample for him. You can see the differences in the two following pictures. He went with the custom blend.
While the finish color was a bit complicated nothing compared to the work involved with the electronics however. This involved time learning a new skill, programing PIC chips to control the LED lighting effects. There are 4 separate lighting effects each controlled by it’s own chip. The first one is one I have done many times, lighting up the buttons when they are pressed. A simple circuit using a logic chip did this job. The other three were a bit more complex and involved the programming. I drilled out the joystick shaft to run the wires for a RGB LED (Red, Green, Blue). This is controlled by a small chip the cycles through the spectrum in about 15 seconds. The next effect uses four green LEDs in the base. One of the LEDs is randomly chosen to flicker. Then after a random interval another LED is chosen. The final effect is embedded into the artwork and is best seen in a video I did for the customer. Here are two short videos showing the LED lighting effects |
