Any Fabricators Want to Help With Ideas?

[BlueSideUp]

I am having some signage made for our building. My cousin's company is making our two monument signs out by the street, two powdercoated aluminum boxes with the names cut out by a CNC laser. The business name section is backed with a translucent acrylic.

For the side of the building we would like to have some letters made 18" high and 6" thick. I think it would be best if the letters were made out of acrylic but we want the color to be a black chrome.



I have seen black chrome applied to metal parts but how is the finish on plastics? Do they use a process like House of Kolors black chrome paint? Has anyone applied that stuff? Apparently you spray a chrome like paint and use a tinted clear.

We have all seen Lewis Hamilton's car and I assume that is one of these chrome paints.



Does anyone on here know how building letters are made?

[Tim Hancock]

I walked thru a local sign company some years ago and they were making signs from clear acrylic (plexiglass) sheets by vacuum-forming the hot sheets over male wood forms. After forming, they would paint the back side with colors. You end up with a very shiny deep looking surface.


I have done some forming of acrylics, but to make large letters/numbers, one would have to have a big cnc router or machining center to make the wood forms, a big oven to heat the sheets and of course a large vacuum set-up.