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First Lightbox-anyone offer some helpful advice?
Hi all
I am putting in a quote for job involving a lightbox, having not tackled one of these before I am keen to get the job as the client is happy to give us a free reign, think we can make it look the dogs and it will look good in our portfolio!
She has taken over premises of a shop with an existing lightbox, which she believes to be working, will have to get that checked by an electrician i guess. the lightbox has no panel in it though.
We are thinking about showing her a design similar to the one in this post here, but I wanted to check the best way to go about actually making it.
http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … =light+box
(hope he doesn’t mind me linking to his thread)
does making this involve fitting an aluminium tray , fret cut to allow for stand out lettering, over the lightbox with a white opal panel in it? If so, can anyone recommend a supplier who fret cuts aluminium trays?
can anyone offer any advice they think we need to bear in mind when tacvling this kind of job?
as always, thanks for any help!
Kate 🙂
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you can do that style of light face several ways.
Andy G has an excellent demo here of something that would be equally impressive as with stand out letter.
I did a box like this some time ago.
I uses opal perspex, but covered the sign face with a black vinyl, blocking the light out completely. I cut out the words tho exposing the opal persex.
Then I had some more opal, or you could do it with clear, laser cut letters to fit over the exposed opal on the black face. You can glue this with clear welding glue.
Then, I covered the face of the letters with a coloured translucent. The light from the box enhances the exposes laser cut letter sides, and looks very good.
You could use dibond as your blockout material, but you’d have to cnc the letters out, and the manufacture would be more expensive.
Hope that helps
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Thanks Shane for reminding me of that tutorial!
Guess it just comes down to whether she likes the look of the light box or if she would be prefer the smooth aluminium look!
More to think about, thanks shane helpful as always!
Kate x 😀 x
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Cheers Kate, my pleasure…. 😉
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so is replacing the perspex panel relatively easy to do?
How does it sit in the light box? Just been to take a look at it, managed to take a photo but got chased off by a traffic warden before i got a chance to get up and measure it. (:) Not too big, about 5ft x 2ft i think.
Kate 🙂
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quote Kate and Danny:so is replacing the perspex panel relatively easy to do?
How does it sit in the light box? Just been to take a look at it, managed to take a photo but got chased off by a traffic warden before i got a chance to get up and measure it. (:) Not too big, about 5ft x 2ft i think.
Kate 🙂
They just slide in usually. They are built with a 6mm gap behind the edge angle, which the perspex sits in. Usually you just unscrew one end, slide the old one out, slide the new one in, put the edge back on, and bingo, jobs done, all is sweet 😛
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Then she gives me her money, I go down the bank with it and then pop next door to the pub!
sounds like a good job to me!
Kate 😀
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quote Kate and Danny:Then she gives me her money, I go down the bank with it and then pop next door to the pub!
…obviously from the same school of business as my wife Kate 😉
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