OK.. I'm going to have a little contest. I'm giving away 1 free Exotic Wood CNC Facia to the person who can guess the serial number of my Empeg (whomever is closest).

The contest will end on Saturday, December 8th 2001 at 12:00 noon PACIFIC STANDARD TIME. I will then tally the results and let you know the winner.

The winner will have a choice over which wood they would like (from what I have in stock) and I will pay the shipping cost.

Please send all contest guesses to empegcontest@gwtw-kites.com. Only 1 guess per person and YOU MUST INCLUDE your Empeg BBS username with the guess.

- Empeg/Rio/Sonicblue employess (and anyone else who has access to the registration database) are not eligible.
- In the case of a tie, the Facia will go to whichever person guessed first (according to time I receive your e-mail).

Good luck!

P.S. Once I'm happy with how the aluminum facia's are coming out I will have another contest for one of those.

Who won? And what was the number so I can tell how far off I was?

OK.. Sorry I took so long on this. I finally got time to go through the e-mails and pick the winner.

I'm happy to announce the winner is Melkon "CrazyMelki". CrazyMelki had an amazing guess that was only off by 3. My serial is 090000826 and the guess was 09000823. The runner up was Taym with a guess of 09000821 (so close).

Thanks for playing everyone.

UPDATE ON METAL FASCIAS
The project is currently being looked over by a large production machine shop. I went to the shop and spent a couple hours talking to the shop manager and their machinist. They were actually very impressed with the results I was getting with a desktop CNC machine. Since they have never done a contoured metal object like the fascia, they are going to play around with it and see what they can do. The machinist was actually excited about trying to do it since he has never done anything like it in his 30+ years of machining. I'm hoping to hear something within the next couple weeks.

WOWOWO!

Very cool! Can't believe it!

thanks

I can't believe it either! For only two numbers! Deng!! Sure there's no prize for the second place? Congratulations to the winner!

Thanks taym,

And maybe Rob will give me the price personally . I will go on 4th of January to Boise over Salt Lake City...Maybe it's cheaper to come over there than send the price to Switzerland .

bye

I think it would be more expensive for me to fly over to Salt Lake to give you the prize. But if you have a mailing address in Salt Lake it would be much cheaper for me to ship it there.

Rob, I will stay in Boise Idoho for a week until 10th of January.

My address there is:

Extended Systems Corporate Offices
Mr. Jason Piippo / Melkon Torosyan
5777 North Meeker Avenue
Boise, ID 83713

You think it is possible to send my winner price to there?

bye

Sure.. You just need to pick which would you would like..

I have mohogany, purpleheart, maple burl, and zebrawood.

I can't find the pics of all the different Facias....But if it's possible I will take an aluminium.

thanks

Sorry.. The contest was for a wood version only. I'd recommend a maple burl face. I'll make one up tomorrow.

ok...no problem...let's try the maple burl!
thanks

Greetings!

Are you offering these for sale at this point? Do you have links to photos of the other woods? Thanks!

Paul G.

First pict of the maple burl fascia with a medium oil finish. Let me know what you think. Sorry the picture is not that great. The second picture is a detail shot that is a bit better.

Detail shot

Ok, I'm ready to pony up some money for that. Can you make one with horizontal grain? I'm guessing that may look a little better since the aspect ratio is a horizontal.

Calvin

Here the picture from my contest price! I hope that I can order soon a metalic one......Thanks to CruzThs

Wow, !!!!!!

thanks!

I would keep that one it looks great

That looks superb .