Does anyone make a 21" Monitor Bezel ?

[gyruss]

Happ makes a plastic bezel for a few different sizes of computer monitors, but it doesn't look like one's available for a 21". Anyone know if there's one made?

[Tailgunner]

Happ makes a plastic bezel for a few different sizes of computer monitors, but it doesn't look like one's available for a 21". Anyone know if there's one made?

Don't think so. The ones Happs makes are for arcade monitors, which tend to have a more rounded screen face than a computer monitor. Quite a few of the classics used bezels made from cardboard, you could make one similar to those out of black posterboard.

[paigeoliver]

Oh, someone HAS to make them. But they may not look the same as normal arcade bezels. The reason I say that is that I have 3 21" Kiosk monitors at home, and these would have certainly needed a bezel.

[iwillfearnoevil]

i might be interested in a 21" bezel as well as that is the monitor i am looking at my for my potential project.

[eightbit]

There are other ways to do bezels. One popular way around here is to simply use tinted glass. Then you can't say the monitor case and vertical games on a horizontal monitor don't look as funny becuase you don't notice the unused part of the monitor.

[gyruss]

One popular way around here is to simply use tinted glass.

I may consider using tinted glass. How tinted does it need to be? I would think it would be almost black to not be able to see the white monitor casing.

[Minwah]

I'm using a 21" arcade monitor - I could use a 21" bezel...

I was going to try to make something out of wood...but tinted glass sounds easier  (I don't have a monitor case to hide)

[paigeoliver]

How tinted it has to be depends on a few things.

How close the monitor is to the glass, and if you have any light coming in through the back.

[Lilwolf]

btw, you might consider trying this

smoked plexi over monitor (I think it makes any monitor look better)

Then black thin cardboard that artist use... Big sheet for a buck or less..  Throught the smoked bezel, you shouldn't be able to tell.

NOTE:  I haven't done this... I was planning on it, but after getting a sitdown driving cab, my "next project" plans all changed...

the nice thing about it is the smoked plexi will be great no matter what... And at most you are wasting a few bucks and the time to cut it out.

[ashardin]

FYI, I have a 21" monitor, this is what I did.

First I searched and searched but could not find tinted plexi by me.

I made one out of posterboard, looks fine.  The one touch I put on it was to lay black electical tape around the glass to cover up the beige of the monitor (I mounted it without the back base but left the border around the front).  You could paint it was well but this worked great.  You *cannot* tell it is a homemade bezel unless you look up close, but it works great.

Just take your time measuring and cutting the posterboard or cardboard.