This is what we came up with for a tape reel after several prototypes. It is designed by ourselves and made in Chicago Illinois USA from black anodized aluminum... the best looking reel on audiophile tape machines are often black. Of the many prototypes that came before this design was this reel pictured below. An attempt to incorporate the logo into the cut of the reel itself... here you can see what that looked like. And there were others before this, but the understated black reel is visually pretty hard to top and was liked by the majority of tape enthusiasts that we polled.
This is what we came up with for a tape reel after several prototypes. It is designed by ourselves and made in Chicago Illinois USA from black anodized aluminum... the best looking reel on audiophile tape machines are often black. Of the many prototypes that came before this design was this reel pictured below. An attempt to incorporate the logo into the cut of the reel itself... here you can see what that looked like. And there were others before this, but the understated black reel is visually pretty hard to top and was liked by the majority of tape enthusiasts that we polled.