[sdiy] Front Panels

[Rob]

Oh, btw, Micheals and Hobby Lobby have glass etching kits that work really
well! They also have glass frosting kits too.. Great stuff..

I haven't tried them on plexi, but I would guess that it could work somehow.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "harry" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
To: "Paul Maddox" <Paul.Maddox at wavesynth.com>
Cc: "Synth DIY LIST" <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Front Panels


> If you engrave the lettering into the panel, and edge light it...
> it will look great. Edge lighting is hard to design and get
> uniform results.
>
> Also... the heat from the lights might be a drift source ?
>
> H^) harry
>
> Paul Maddox wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> >   Has anyone ever looked into doing a front panel made or perspex?
> > or Translucent Perspex? and backlighting it?
> >
> >   Other than the fact that it would need to quite thick (I can recess
pot
> > nuts)
> > is there any other problems?
> >
> >   Paul Maddox
>