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Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth

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Re: Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth

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zimo3000 wrote: post #10
mobeets wrote: post #6

This is amazing and super inspiring. I love how such a professional looking enclosure is actually a repurposed Ikea flowerpot—-brilliant. Does anyone know how one would print the black text on the flowerpot? I have an acrylic enclosure from a project but could never figure out how to get text printed on it.

Hey Mobeets, Zimo (author/builder) here. The text on the flowerpot and the wooden box was “printed” with toner transfer method. It’s a super simple process: you print the text flipped with a laser printer and use toner transfer solution and rub the text on the surface. I used this solution for it (hope it’s fine to share it): https://ideahobby.eu/product/10556/express-transfer-20ml-p32... Here’s a video how it’s used…

Wowwww I had no idea this was a thing. Thank you for sharing, this is perfect

Re: Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth

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oriolid wrote: post #20

Cool project! I understand mass producing these doesn't much sense, but would a build kit that has just PCBs with SMD components in place and the rest of work left to user work? I know someone who did a similar project and it turned out that when ordering PCBs, single one is really expensive compared to even a tiny batch.

Yes, this is a valid option if we see high demand for it.

Re: Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth

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Aldipower wrote: post #16

As a danish and german speaker, the name is hard to get used to, because it conflicts with all the lexical rules existent in nordic germanic languages. This name, lexically, does not make sense at all, also you won't find any word in nordic languages written like this. "shm" just does not exist and "øe" also is very very rare in northern germanic. On the other side in western germanic, "oe" is the "ö". So this gets e…

Haha :D Yeah, I know. A danish speaking linguist friend of mine told the exact same thing the other day with very similar reasoning as yours. This name stuck with me for a long time as an idea if I ever want to start a _fake_ nordic brand - and I think for _that_ it’s perfect :D

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Post by Symbiote »

zimo3000 wrote: post #24
Aldipower wrote: post #16

As a danish and german speaker, the name is hard to get used to, because it conflicts with all the lexical rules existent in nordic germanic languages. This name, lexically, does not make sense at all, also you won't find any word in nordic languages written like this. "shm" just does not exist and "øe" also is very very rare in northern germanic. On the other side in western germanic, "oe" is the "ö". So this gets e…

Haha :D Yeah, I know. A danish speaking linguist friend of mine told the exact same thing the other day with very similar reasoning as yours. This name stuck with me for a long time as an idea if I ever want to start a _fake_ nordic brand - and I think for _that_ it’s perfect :D

I'm only learning Danish.

I decided the start of the name is from the far north (Norrland) dialect of Swedish, since they pronounce the Swedish SJ sound as SH.

The letter Ø and especially clusters of pointless, not-pronounced consonants at the end of the word is very much Danish, so we can assume the second half is spoken like Danish øen, "the island" (two syllables, ø-en), and ignore the rgh :-)

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