Coated my Stage2 with DC-Fix

[neolithic]

... I wonder what would have happened with this company had they not started with the red color?? Thoughts??

Joking (and Photoshop) aside, I think it was a clever marketing decision to stick with red. A distinctive brand identity is a powerful thing

[ralhop]

looks Nice , how did you wrap the wooden panels ?

[Spider]

Mr Nordelius: We have request sometimes for other colours. Kraftwerk asked for grey or blank synthesisers many years ago, and we said no and they didn’t buy them. But we didn’t want to repaint them.

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This forum is becoming a sort of Photoshop tutorial

[Spider]

Nice job!
Yes total black would've been more clean-looking (without the residual red and yellow on the panel), but I understand that it would have required a totally different -and much more complicated- job.
I especially like the end wood blocks, they look almost "real"!

looks Nice , how did you wrap the wooden panels ?

yes, that was the part that surprised me the most, really neat job!
Did you disassemble the Stage to do the job properly, or were you able to wrap it without disassembling?
In the second case, I'm really amazed at your skill -and patience!

[spradders]

I love threads like this. The winking mr nord with blue in the background, LoL.

[neolithic]

I love threads like this. The winking mr nord with blue in the background, LoL.

I like to inject a little humour from time to time... hopefully it's balanced by my more useful contributions

[AlQuinn]

I think red has probably served Nord well from a Marketing perspective (i.e., because their keyboards are easily identified at a distance without the need to read the manufacture logo to know it's a Nord). However, I don't like having a red keyboard and prefer black. So from this customer's view it was a compromise buying red but perhaps I'm not their target market. To me it's just a machine (i.e., a great machine at that) and machines shouldn't command so much attention. I see black as understated and red as overstated.

[Frantz]

lol for neolithic's blue pic

[neolithic]

lol for neolithic's blue pic

[MrSitcom]

Nice job!
Yes total black would've been more clean-looking (without the residual red and yellow on the panel), but I understand that it would have required a totally different -and much more complicated- job.
I especially like the end wood blocks, they look almost "real"!

looks Nice , how did you wrap the wooden panels ?

yes, that was the part that surprised me the most, really neat job!
Did you disassemble the Stage to do the job properly, or were you able to wrap it without disassembling?
In the second case, I'm really amazed at your skill -and patience!

I removed the top (previously red ) part and then the wooden ends from it. The ends were much more difficult with their many curves, but with a blowdryer (and three pairs of hands ) we managed to do a decent job, and certainly close enough for rock'n'roll!