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Free/Floor standing letters – how do you produce these?
A customer sent me a photo the other day of some free standing/floor standing machined letters.
They too want their logo machined and to form a kind of feature/wall divider.
I’m stumped as to how they’ve done it. In the photo the letters look no thicker than 2inches, but are floor to ceiling with no obvious fixings.
Anyone able to shed any light on how to produce these.
Will upload a photo tomorrow as it’s on the generic work email not my own.
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David I did a job for a customer a few years ago where they were looking for something along the same lines to stand up right at an outdoor event. I solved the problem by having spikes they could put in the ground & then the sign slide on over the spikes. Worked pretty well for them & got used quite a bit from what I was led to believe.
Could well be that this is done in a similar way with some sort of rod or bar set in the floor & the same or a wire at the top especially if they have suspended ceilings.
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I get what you mean, similar to the floating shelves you can get from Ikea?
Here’s the photo…
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I have used UKSB member Fran Hollywood for Polystyrene letters.
I found him to be very helpful and rushed a job through for me at the last minute. very harpy with his work.
http://www.madeinhollywood.ieFran did these letters for me at very short notice. over a metre high and about a foot thick.
I called and outlined my problem and need the letters sent to London within days and the guy pulled it out the bag for me. 😀I would reckon these type of lightweight letters would work very well to achieve what you are after…
It is easy to colour the letters. a couple of coats of emulsion paint using a 4 inch roller. Thats how i did the faces of the letters in the picture below.
As they are so light, suspending them on vertical shop window tensioning wires would be easy.
you will get from i-spi http://www.ispitrade.com/
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How durable is the polystyrene Rob?
These are going to be in a busy office, so I’d be concerned about them getting dinged and dented.
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David looks like those letters have rods running through them, if you look carefully they would appear to be white round rods.
Be very easy to do something like that, not sure what best material for letters would be, for weight then something like polystyrene or sign foam maybe but not so sure about durability. -
Dave,
We recently cut some foam polystyrene letters for a client of our.
A few on the boards said that these would be best cut on a hot wire but we found we cut an excellent finish using our CNC machine and a specialist cutter.
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How durable are the letters James?
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