[Johnson] Ranger 2 refurbish all done

[Robert Sauvan]

Well,

First of all I took the panels to a copy place that had a big enough 
scanner. My scanner was too small. I then took the scanned object and 
worked with it in my CS4 graphics program. I am able to blow up the 
scanned work on a letter by letter and dot by dot basis if needed. The 
most time consuming issue of it all is finding the right fonts, or fonts 
that are so close enough that it would be nearly impossible to tell. I 
spent hours looking at fonts. Probably looked at a thousand of them 
before being satisfied with what I have. The program one would use has 
to do Vector images to insure the fonts and general design is dark 
enough and opaque for making the screens. Just an ordinary graphic 
design program wont work unless it does Vector imaging. This particular 
radio only has one color, black, so color wasnt an issue. But, a screen 
had to be done for the face plate, and the escutcheon dial plate also. 
When you have more than one color, a screen needs to be made for each 
color. Like a Viking Valiant for instance. I did have to do a bit of 
hand work to freshen the Viking a bit, but it turned out well I think.

The silk screen process is a beast all its own. You can look up how to 
do screens on the internet so I wont go into that process. All of it is 
time consuming up front, but after the screens are done, they can be 
reused time and again. I eventually want to be able to to screens for 
all of the Johnson equipment. I have some Hammarlund radios as well and 
if time permits, I will do screens for them as well. Hope this answers 
your questions.


73-Bob-W0YBS


On 5/25/2016 8:51 AM, david lee wrote:
> Bob-
> Great job.  I have been toying for years to try this myself.
> I always get hung up over the process of silk screening.
> Can you share how you scanned and created the digital imagery for the screen?  Was there a lot of manual refinement (colors, alignment, sharpening, ext) after the initial scan?
> Seems to me that this is a terribly manual, trial and error process, especially for panels with curvature and bumps.
> I’ve read some folks send the panel to professional graphics shop for scan and slik screen.
> Thanks for any info to help me get past this fear of the unknown.
> -dave
> W5OC
>
>
>> On May 24, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Robert Sauvan <rsauvan at beyondbb.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Thought you might like to see the Ranger 2 I just finished painting and silk screening. I think it turned out very nice. Let me know what you think. I made a silk screen and this would be the first attempt at something like this. I now have the screens and am able to do more face plates. I matched the colors using Sherwin Williams auto paints. Painted, sanded and buffed by hand too get the patina that I felt was right for the era of the radio. I am enclosing a link to my web page for viewing. My next attempt is going to be a Johnson Courier Amplifier that I just picked up. You can click on the link after getting to my website to look at the pictures of my purchase and view the "before" pics of it. I will look to get this done in the next month or so and will post that when I am done as well if anyone is interested. I will have a screen for this radio as well when I am done. Please enjoy.
>>
>> http://www.w0ybs.com/w0ybs_026.htm
>>
>> 73-Bob-W0YBS
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Thanks
Bob Sauvan-W0YBS
rsauvan at beyondbb.com
http://w0ybs.com