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fabricated signage: Ogham
below is some pictures of a job i fitted on friday morning 6am on princess street edinburgh. becuase its the city scentre i had to have the sign installed and off site for 8am, thankfully i was done and dusted for 7.30am and off site with 20 mins to spare 😀
the sign was an illuminated lightbox (slimline)
with a cream rynabond face to block the light coming through.
we routered out the letters from the rynabond and also routered half inch clear perspex letters and applied vinyl to the face for colour match.
the letters/logo were made up & pushed through to allow a hallo of light around the text in the evening…
the ghost effect background logo on the right was pantone matched and printed onto vinyl using our new printer, as was the small push through logo in terracota.
as you can see from the picture of the sign open. we have positioned the bulbs to illuminate only the areas with text and logo.
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Looks smart Rob 😀
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I’ve never done a sign like this Rob so excuse the stupid question, when routing the clear perspex I assume you left a return to stop the letters falling out? told you it was a daft question
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Looks great Rob, It’s a really effective way of providing a halo effect lighting without the expense of making built-up letters.
quote :I’ve never done a sign like this Rob so excuse the stupid question, when routing the clear perspex I assume you left a return to stop the letters falling out? told you it was a daft questionI’d guess you’re right there Steve, I normally leave a 1mm thick 3mm wide return on the back of the letters to provide a nice location in the panel and then glue them in place with suitable adhesive.
Nigel
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Looks Great, but another dumb question as I’ve never done anything like this before, is the routing on letters and panel done by hand or cnc ?
Paul
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thanks for the comments guys 😉
Hi Paul,
The routing was done using a cnc router, not hand held. But I know of some large companies that have guys doing it all by hand with a jigsaw and getting almost perfect results. Ide guess it’s a knack to get it so precise.Steve, Nigel,
Yes you could and I guess lots do use a step-out on the lower area of the letter.
Normally I would go for an easier method I think. What I do is…Route out the letters from the panel.
Cut the letters from .5 inch clear persex.
Cover the face of the Perspex with coloured vinyl.
Cut a rectangle of 3mm opal (semi transparent white Perspex) 1.5 inch higher and wider than all the text in a line.
Turn the routered panel over & glue the 3mm Perspex over the area the letters are cut from the panel.
Flip the panel back, you should see white Perspex through the areas that the letters are cut from.
Take tensol glue and run it in on the white Perspex through the cut out letters & simple sit each clear cut letter into the space and leave for an hour.
Job done!Using the above method I feel give a good bond and makes sure NO light what so ever can creep in from the edges if the signs looked at from the side/angle.
From here you just buy in/make a standard light box to suit the panel size.
If you buy the light box in you need to move the bulbs closer together to suit were the text is to be illuminated. This is just a case of unscrewing and re-screwing in new location… -
Very informative Rob a real nice sign
Was the effect something the customer had seen elseware and wanted
to use or an idea you put to him ?I ask as many customers could not imagine how the end result would look
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absolutely fab!! 😀 😀
terrific sign rob, i just love the way the light pops out on the outline!! 😀
you make it look soo… easy!! 😀 😀
nice one rob!! 😛 😛
Nik
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Great work, very nice looking job!!
Carrie 😀
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quote Terry:Very informative Rob a real nice sign
Was the effect something the customer had seen elseware and wanted
to use or an idea you put to him ?I ask as many customers could not imagine how the end result would look
Terrythanks for the comments folks…
terry the customer wanted back raised letters “3d built-ups” with a halo of light from the rear. she had seen it on some similar shops in edinburgh.
as you can see the letters arent the largest and the font very slim.
i said that she could have the builtups but i didnt think that the LEDS would fit properly. i thought they might but wasnt going to take the chance and then be back to square one.
so we offered this solution. she “like you have said” didnt know what we were on about but says as long as she gets similar effect she will be happy. im glad to say she was delighted & it cost her less getting this method than it would for her built ups etc.. 😉 -
Cool sign Robert 😀 Looks really sofist… sophes.. sophisti…. it look’s really posh! 😳 😀
Dare I ask how much something like that sells for though? 🙄
Cheers, Dewi
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Fantastic work Rob, a very classy looking sign. I’m sure your client would have been very pleased with the end result 😀
Thanks for the detailed explanation as to how this is done.
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Right tasty sign Rob
Would love to have had a demo of it
Still maybe another time eh! When you’re not so busy
John
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