Beautiful unit. Most are though IMO. Is there a name for the style of the front of yours? Mine is different, not the colors but the wood pattern itself? Just trying to learn more for if/when I try for a custom as my second P80 down the road. I posted a pic of mine a few pages back and the front of mine has a different front in terms of wood patterning (again color will always vary as will wood grain).
I couldn't find your photo because I didn't feel like skimming through the thread, but do you have one that is all square? That has nothing to do with the pattern of the wood itself
Is it the “crosscut” style for the front hiding the heater? That’s what I wanted to know. Colors and patterns are myriad, most are aesthetically pleasing to me anyway.
Crosscut just describes how the marble wood was cut, why it looks the way it does, with the grain.
I think you may be referring to the drum style around the heater?
Yeah the barrel rounded heaters were innovated several drops ago, that is what Ralph calls the drum style although it seems to be more like the new standard these days
That’s exactly what I’m referring to. Are there set styles for this, like a limited number of them and specifically what they’re called? In other words what are the options? Or can Ralph do anything with the drum around the heater in terms of structural patterns? That’s my question. The colors and cutouts (on the sides) with some are of course amazing and they run the gamut.
Yeah you can skim through all the different ones he made in the past, there is no limited number, it is just the drum barrel rounded which by the way adds to the total cost of the TP80 for those that are thinking there is a huge price hike, he barely makes them the square way for the prebuilts now so most are more expensive...
Structurally, only the hardwoods can be fully rounded, curved, with the three panels, most of the cutout s are just that simple long skinny oval that I like and got with mine, but there have been a few others in the past, including no cutout at all if you skim through photos...
The acrylic units, make the three panels into more of a hexagon octagon type shape, since the poplar plywood cannot be rounded the same way as the hardwoods... zigzag cutouts were common in past acrylics too... However the newer acrylics do wrap around fully rounded now, with the live edge crazy cutout that you've seen with more recent acrylics...
So there are quite a few options structurally you see, I've seen more cutout options for the square versions, but he can basically do anything you want if you send him a custom design for laser cutouts or any inlay design too...
And yes you can get any color, any wood you want, the one you were talking about, that is dyed box elder burl, stabilized wood, one of the more expensive options, the acrylic and painted poplar wood are a cheaper way to get whatever color you want though it is of course not the same natural wood look per se?
Burl is also the most expensive type of wood option of course, these units like the marble wood, were able to be cheaper, by just having the stab wood around the drum, some of them only two panels not even all three, although the marble wood was also exotic (and you see the price depends on the color of the mod as well, blue adds no extra cost, red or silver adds $5, black or bronze adds $15)
Does that all make sense?? The custom options in the drop-down don't have everything so I'm not sure you can find all this there, you will have to email with him to get specific of course...
anybody know exactly how many PBs and CXs were sold? I'd like to update my log... or if any previous rows look off, please let me know!
From the first drop I think there were 15 custom slots, then four left for the second drop, I think it was still 15 total but it may have been more... And the number of pre-built, should have been able to count before when they were all listed... Sorry it was like 60 I don't know lol