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Topic: How to make a custom sign?

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I want to make a custom sign that will go to the front of my rack to cover the wire mess. And I want it to be black with white matte letters so I can back-lit with LED. How to make this sign or who can make it? And what materials to use? Plastic, glass?
 
Posted Thu 10 Feb 11 @ 6:43 am
 
Easy enough to do really, work out the measurements you reguire the box to be, you will need clear toughened heat resistant perspex or similar (the heat from the tube or bulbs shouldn't be all that great), never use glass.

Now you'll need to source a local car parts shop or graphix company that can make your decals, assuming you cant do this yourself.

Construct your box, remember to make some air vents at the top of box to let out heat and cover holes with grills, set your lighting arrangement on the back plate of box and wire to bulgin socket, or whatever you use over there to make multiple connections. Then screw back to frame.

Paint or cover in suitable material of your choice.

Now screw your completed perspex panel to front of box, to have a professional finish to the project, I would edge all of the box in aluminium angle.

If you were over this side of the pond I could of helped or custom made a flight case for you.
 
Couple of suggestions:

Tayla description is good, but you said you were using LEDs - assuming you have technical knowledge of how to power and arrange these - you will not need any holes to let heat out as they only get slightly warm - they are more expensive BUT you wall almost certainly never need to replace them - THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN A DISCO WITH LAMPS NOT WORKING it is so unprofessional.

Also a box made of ply the size you require, make the front of the box removable so that it covers the front image and dosn't get damaged in transit.

As an alternative use a ply box without a front perspex, have your banner professionally printed on a poster size page using silver/white/gold but it needs to be reflective - stick it in the back of the box and then mount the LED just inside the front edge so they provide light pointed back at the poster and illuminate it. A friend of mine has exactly this arrangement and it looks really professional and most importantly its fairly light for moving about.

Good luck
 
I'm such a numpty, on two parts, I apologise I overlooked the LED bit, but I still would make at least one vent slot to let the heat escape from the enclosure.

As for the front protective cover, what! I got to tell you everything...
 
Well. I am not building a box. I want to just cover the front of my existing case. Here is the picture:



Here is the view of my empty case from another side



I want to hide all the cables connected to the mixer. So basically the top will be open. Just adding the sign to the side.
Here is Photoshopped version of what I want to do.
 
Be far easier and quicker just hanging a plain black or star cloth over it.
 


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