• Making a whiteboard

    Posted by John Wilson on September 26, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    I’ve still got alot of whiteboard vinyl left after my last job and was thinking of making some whiteboards up

    What’s the best material to use as backing? Not wanting to waste materials with trial and error

    Robert Lambie replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    September 26, 2006 at 7:04 pm

    do you mean like a dry wipe board that you would get in an office john?

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    September 26, 2006 at 7:30 pm

    John, I would say any firm rigid smoothy would do, (sorry im booked elswhere) so as a substitute, how about white contiboard, any diy stock it, you probably wouldnt even need to apply the vinyl

    Peter

  • John Wilson

    Member
    September 26, 2006 at 8:44 pm
    quote Robert Lambie:

    do you mean like a dry wipe board that you would get in an office john?

    Yeah Rob

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    September 26, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    as peter said, any rigid material would do…
    however, i think its maybe an idea to create cheap as chips one or a nice office one.

    cheaper one could be on correx scrap, folded like a counter top sign. sits on a pub counter with "today’s specials" at the top and they write on the soup of today etc on the dry wipe part.

    office one could be a coloured bit of dibond, raised on four ally locator’s, or just plastic ones with title and area below to for the dry wipe panel… that kinda thing….

    great thing about left overs/scraps as you can be as creative as you like, as long as you make some sort of profit. 😀

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