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How do I secure / trim a bowfront marquee
« on: January 23, 2006, 10:32:19 pm »
Many of you may be familliar with my project which has now become entitled "Game Gauntlet".  I made a bowfront marquee.  I have the acrylic cut and sitting in place.  I plan on securing the marquee artwork, sadwiched between two identical pieces of acrylic.  What I need to figure out is, what can I use for a marquee retainer.  I thought of a small piece of balsa wood that would bend, or maybe some kind of automotve trim.  There's usually rolls of trim for the edges or doors or sheet metal at Canadian Tire (our local hardware chain).

Anyone else done this, or seen how it's done?
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Re: How do I secure / trim a bowfront marquee
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2006, 10:38:01 pm »
I was wondering this very thing about your cabinet the other day.  Its seems like sucha cool look but every idea I came up with was permanent and I know that I will always want to change out my marquee every few months,
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Re: How do I secure / trim a bowfront marquee
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2006, 11:05:54 pm »
Check out the Goldmine project I used rubber carpet trim/boarder

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Re: How do I secure / trim a bowfront marquee
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2006, 12:07:44 pm »
Can you take a detail shot of that for me?

Man, I could shop carpet trim online at work and nobody would know I wasn't working.
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Re: How do I secure / trim a bowfront marquee
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2006, 12:14:04 pm »
http://www.johnsonite.com/products/PDF/ContourTransition.pdf

something like this?

I'll have to browse the carpet section at Home Depot.
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