Oakland, NE
Nice! You make it look easy!
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Quoted from Ranhorton:Having a new bro-mance with Sorcerer.
That back glass is sweet!!!
Quoted from Ranhorton:Having a new bro-mance with Sorcerer.
Your backglass looks really nice . I can't wait to finally get mine back togather .
I cut the corners out with a exacto knife ( On the stencils I cut I put these corners into this stencil and they line up with the first color , making it easier the get the second color lined up properly in the corner ) I also cut into the lines just as I did for the head stencil . The center circle I cut windows in 4 spots.
Again I taped these pieces into position , leaving the backing on . I did the 2 outer pieces first . I then pealed the backing and applied the 2 outer pieces , and removed the tranfer tape . Then I did the center piece . With the windows cut into the circle I was able to measure the part of the outer ring (first color ) that gets overlaped . The gets my circle with W placed in the center of this ring .
I will need to lightly scuff both these colors before clearcoating . This will get clearcoated sanded and then clearcoated again , This removes the line left from stenciling and makes the cabinet smooth as glass . Again Thanks to Kneissl . As you can see the vector artwork that he created produced great resaults .
Quoted from Kneissl:Nice work! I hope I can pull it off.
You'll get it , Your black base color looks good . Your steps will be a little different then mine because I do believe you are using laquer ( correct me if I'm wrong ) But ounce you've applied your stencil you will want to scuff the areas getting paint stenciled on ( this makes the paint adhere much , much better ) and tac cloth to remove dust .
Quoted from trilogybeer:Clearcoated cabinet tonight . This layer will be sanded to bury the lines left by the stencil and it will get clearcoated again , Hopefully I'll be done with the paint work this week .
You are truly an artist sir!!!
All the flashers are tinted red. I'm putting in the super bright 4 led pinball life bulbs with an led ocd controller http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=13yb2YfiZ98 and regular incandescent for the rest of the GI
Also a purple upper flipper and yellow lightning flippers. i think the lightning goes with the art. If anyone has white lightning i'd be interested.
Quoted from Kneissl:Also a purple upper flipper and yellow lightning flippers. i think the lightning goes with the art. If
Game might be tough with the lightning flippers . You do know those are shorter ?
Quoted from trilogybeer:Here's a pic of the cabinet with the final clearcoat . If I get a lttle time this weekend I'll start puting the cabinet back togather .
The photo came out sized strangely so all the detail was lost . . . at least on my cpu. 
Introducing the black magic sorcerer . Had a liitle time to start puting stuff togather . My legs , side rails ,coin door and a few other parts I did in black pearl . You can see the difference in colors in second pic with flash . Darkened the whole game up I think it will look really nice when eveything is finished and back togather.
Had to just put my playfield back into cabinet (they've been apart for so long ). Got a new set of plastics that I will put on when I'm closer to finishing this project but I painted the plastics above the flipper lanes tanslucent red and I will be keeping those plastics on.
Quoted from Ranhorton:A murdered out Sorcerer!
It's going to look amazing once complete.
Thanks ! So also the darker orange on cabinet is starting to make a little more snese is it not?
I may not be doing a full restore right now, but today I rebuilt the upper flipper, put 63's in the Sorcerer flashers and now have all lamps working, Novus 2'd the playfield twice, a coat of Carnuba wax, and replaced most of the rubber. I also put new brackets on the playfield earlier this week because the front of the playfield wasn't lowering down all of the way for some reason. The original brackets were 1/4" too short. I'm still baffled as to why that is because the cabinet looks fine to me. Whatever, it is now a constant 6 degree pitch throughout the entire playfield.
Game is playing great! It's amazing what a little TLC can do.
Now I have to decide whether I should play or rebuild my F-14 flippers....
Anyone know why some Sorcerers have the chrome coin door while others have the black one?
thanks!
-mof
Quoted from trilogybeer:Game might be tough with the lightning flippers . You do know those are shorter ?
No kidding. Sorcerer is vicious enough as it is, putting lightning flippers on it violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Quoted from mof:Anyone know why some Sorcerers have the chrome coin door while others have the black one?
thanks!
The ones with chrome coin doors are the early production ones .
Quoted from trilogybeer:The ones with chrome coin doors are the early production ones .
What other differences are there? I want to find a Sorcerer with a chrome door...
-mof
Quoted from mof:What other differences are there? I want to find a Sorcerer with a chrome door...
-mof
Colors on the playfield and backglass .
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