Collective inquiry to Sanwa

[erzane]

Got mine from FromJapan.co.jp today. Beautiful! Looking forward to whatever magic @erzane can weave next.

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, these panels are from far the best. Once all will be sold, we can go further with new projects.

AlxUnderBase :

As far as I know, the best overlays are made by Alberto but I think BarryBuise on Instagram do also make some very good ones.
I suggest you to send your brand new panel to one of these like this they can do a perfect sized overlay adapted to this Sanwa panel because if you only order the overlay it might be not adjusted well since the Sanwa panel does have larger angles (both angles of the bottom slice) than the the original or the Seimitsu Astro panels.

You must know that there are some little differences between these panels so it's important to consider these differences of a few degrees to be sure that your overlay will be well calibrated and perfectly adapted to the holes, the angles and the slice. I think it's important that Alberto or Barry has a specific blueprint of these Sanwa panels for their future overlays to avoid everybody have to ship these panels to them.

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[9999 Damage]

@alberto1225 now has one of these Sanwa panels and is making a few Astro and Blast laser-cut metallic overlays for me. The pink & green will also be metallic due to the print method, as screen printing is too expensive. Hopefully he doesn't mind me sharing all of this.

Has anyone installed these yet? Alberto also mentioned that the panel shape is a little different, so that there will be gaps when installed in a Sega enclosure.