UPDATE!:
OK, so the big reveal got significantly postponed due to a critical error on my part having to do with my incredibly limited Photoshop skills... We'll get to that...
After correcting my grievous faux pas, I have sent the updated file in question off to my printer/sign/graphics dood for him to print a high quality special product.
Once I got into this thing, I realized that simply recovering it and cleaning it up was not enough. It's over 30 years old, it needed an overhaul to return it to full glory. You saw the teaser above of the blue vinyl used to cover the cabinet, and the blue painted strap bracket. Well, the shade of blue on the bracket clashed horribly with the vinyl, so I removed that blue paint in favor of something different. For now, I'm posting "progress" pics of some of the crazy meticulous crap I have been doing in order to fully restore this little gem.
The original front panel looked like Hell. It was scratched badly all over and had rust spots and areas of missing paint etc. Plus, with all due respect to the old school way of doing things, there were little things that made my OCD go full tilt. For instance, on each of the knob sections, the white marker lines for the various positions around the dial were all over the map. Not one of them was truly centered. I wanted to make the front panel look new again, but I also wanted to customize and update it to my liking. This involved scanning the actual panel in multiple sections at 1200 dpi and then reassembling those sections in photoshop. No small task... Getting them all lined up and perfectly level with the guide/ruler lines was an exercise in ultimate concentration and patience. One of the pics below shows a grey-scale test print of a section sitting on the panel to ensure accuracy. I effectively built an entirely new overlay that is 100% identical to the original (this took many days), which I can have printed for anyone who wants to freshen up their own JC77. The final version that is going on my amp is much more visually appealing
Anyway, we're a few days out from a reveal, but here's some shots of my tweaking out on this thing over the past few weeks along with what the original front panel looked like so you can see the horror!
