Built not bought - shop sign edition

Blaze

Blaze

The Jeeper Reaper
Joined
Aug 9, 2005
Location
Wake Forest, NC
Finally painted my shop and was looking for some new signs for it. Found an old 90s Pontiac dealership sign but they wanted $500 for it and I wasn't about to pay that. Decided to make my own. Threw an LED backlight on it for effect. I'm pretty happy.
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WARRIORWELDING said:
More details on the build, looks professional to me.
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It's a 2'x6' matte black aluminum sign panel. I got some printed outdoor vinyl with the gradient and cut the white vinyl PONTIAC on my cutter. Mounted it on a flat screen TA mount. The lights are an LED strip light setup that I can change colors and all and control from my phone.
 
Blaze said:
It's a 2'x6' matte black aluminum sign panel. I got some printed outdoor vinyl with the gradient and cut the white vinyl PONTIAC on my cutter. Mounted it on a flat screen TA mount. The lights are an LED strip light setup that I can change colors and all and control from my phone.
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Very nice. The Pontiac being translucent would have been cool.
The kids on the robotics teams do something similar - get a vinyl cutout that is black with their team # cut out. Put a thin white or green sheet down on a piece of acrylic, then put the black sticker over it, and put LED strip behind.
A neat effect from acrylic is if you shine a light into one end it will illuminate all the edges.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Very nice. The Pontiac being translucent would have been cool.
The kids on the robotics teams do something similar - get a vinyl cutout that is black with their team # cut out. Put a thin white or green sheet down on a piece of acrylic, then put the black sticker over it, and put LED strip behind.
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Yeah, I thought about that too, but I was worried a sheet of acrylic that big would be kind of heavy and need a frame on the backside. Decided to just try and match the original as best as I could.
 
Blaze said:
Yeah, I thought about that too, but I was worried a sheet of acrylic that big would be kind of heavy and need a frame on the backside. Decided to just try and match the original as best as I could.
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The other thing is acrylic can warp and bend with weather changes. Not real ideal for outdoors where you want it to be flat.
 
So my buddy liked the sign and asked me to do a smaller one for his shop to go with his 3rd gen Formula. This one is 24x12 and will have straight red LED backlight.
 

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