Glass or Plastic for Bezel?? Opinions

[dezmond]

Hey Everyone.  Been working on my cabinet and I have thinking about the monitor bezel glass.. Or Plastic.......

What would work best? Thickness?  Tinted?  How much tint? etc.....

Could I pick your brains and get some opinions on this? I think I am going to mount it behind the bezel right?

Thanks in advance

Dezi

[gildahl]

1/4" mildly tinted tempered glass is what I went with.  Ordered from a local glass company for < $50 to exact specs.  The glass is great.  Cleans up easily and doesn't scratch or bend.

[EMDB]

Hey Everyone.  Been working on my cabinet and I have thinking about the monitor bezel glass.. Or Plastic.......

What would work best? Thickness?  Tinted?  How much tint? etc.....

Could I pick your brains and get some opinions on this? I think I am going to mount it behind the bezel right?

Thanks in advance

Dezi

In front of the bezel. Or even spray paint the bezel to the back of the glass. Or plexi.

 

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[MydknyteStyrm]

+1 for glass.

I went with a plexi at the start of my build, and due to the size of my monitor and bezel area, it bent, warped, and collected every fleck of dust in the room due to static electricity. I went with tempered glass, spray painted a glossy black bezel (masked off with painters tape), and now its really easy to clean, looks fantastic, and is sturdy as ever.

[Drnick]

4mm tempered glass, rounded edges, tinted is my recommendation too.

[RandyT]

One big argument for plexi is that you can more easily get it in a darker tint.  I like that you won't see the screen edges with vertical games, when played on a horizontal monitor.  No bezel required.  But, it also pretty much requires a CRT to get the contrast levels and brightness to really pull it off.

But if you have a dedicated cabinet for each orientation, or it just doesn't bother you, glass is good.

[MartyKong]

Yes, Go with glass. I ended up going with 3/16" non tempered tinted glass. Like Randy mentioned it felt too dark for the LCD screen. Instead I painted my bezel flat black and taped off the backside of the glass and painted that as well. Now using untinted glass it looks black with the screen off but is easy to adjust brightness for the games. So far pretty happy.

[Malenko]

Dr.Nick necro bumped 6 year old thread, and the OP hasnt logging in for 4 years......

and plexi is best, especially if you drop it

[MartyKong]

Funny -  I didn't catch the necro bump and don't drop it!

[Malenko]

If you do go glass, get tempered. Better too clean up glass nuggets for weeks then to mop up blood for hours.

[Drnick]

Dr.Nick necro bumped 6 year old thread, and the OP hasnt logging in for 4 years......

and plexi is best, especially if you drop it

I did didn't I, Not sure how I didn't see the date, Actually not sure why I would even have looked at the thread as I don't often leave the main pages,  probably the haze of haze

[PL1]

not sure why I would even have looked at the thread as I don't often leave the main pages

The thread was bumped with a plausible first post by a would-be sneaky spammer.

You saw the thread and posted.

The spammer came back later and inserted spam into that first post.

Shortly after that I noticed the spam, deleted the offending post, and ban-hammered the spammer.   


Scott