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What color is 'smoked' glass?
SNAAAKE:
I vote GRAY ! :)
Hell if I know..never even seen any but isnt there flat black ???
Just wondering ;D
shmokes:
What about thickness? 1/4", 1/8"? What about shade? Light, Dark?
Does anybody know this stuff or is it a, try-it-and-let-us-know thing? ;)
RandyT:
--- Quote from: shmokes on June 03, 2003, 03:32:14 pm ---What about thickness? 1/4", 1/8"? What about shade? Light, Dark?
Does anybody know this stuff or is it a, try-it-and-let-us-know thing? ;)
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It depends on what you want to accomplish.
If you want to "hide" the orientation of a monitor, go with a dark shade. This will negate the need for a bezel, increase contrast, and make a 27" horiz. screen look like a 19" vertical when in that mode.
If you use a bezel and still want to see artwork (and the face of the CRT) through the window, go for the light stuff.
If the window is 24" or less across, you can use 1/4" without a lot of framing. 1/8" is going to require more support, but is cheaper.
So again, it's one of those situation based things. :)
RandyT
bionicbadger:
My smoked plexi is 3mm so 1/8" and is grey not brown, as to light/dark I would assume mine is light. I cannot imagine 1/4" dark working that well, I would think it is too dark. I didn't have a choice as to light or dark, or grey or brown, they only had one kind of smoked plexi.
The 1/8" is thick enough if you don't plan on leaning or pressing on it. 1/4" is pretty thick stuff, take a look at some and see if you like it.
I simply cut out some black poster board and taped the outside edges to the back of the plexi as a bezel, it looks pretty good, nice and black.
What I would suggest is going down to the store and taking a look at the product if you can and make your own decision. Take a potable TV or LCD display if you can and hold it behind the plexi and see what looks good.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: bionicbadger on June 03, 2003, 04:35:00 pm ---I cannot imagine 1/4" dark working that well, I would think it is too dark.
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It's one of those things you have to see to believe :)
There was a thread started by OSCAR a while back. Pictures and everything. I recommend that anyone curious about this should give it a look when they have time. He did a nice job documenting it.
RandyT