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Title: Ideas for making a simple bezel.
Post by: robbbby on January 31, 2016, 12:09:00 am

I have a neo geo mvs1 cabinet I cleaned up.  The cardboard bezel inside was ripped, taped together and faded.  I want to replace it  with something similar that is just black in colour.  I don't want to buy vinyl for it and would rather just just use a simple insert.  My first idea was paint it but I knew the even taping the glass the lines wouldn't be perfect and i'd have some bleed through.  My other idea was black bristol board with a square cut out in the center.  The only problem is I cannot find bristol board anywhere that is large enough, the bezel would end up having to be two pieces taped together which I don't want to do.
Anybody else have interesting ideas for doing a simple black bezel behind the glass?

Sorry if this has been covered, I searched for bezel, "new bezel", "make bezel" and there were a huge amount of results unrelated to what i'm looking for.

Title: Re: Ideas for making a simple bezel.
Post by: Slippyblade on January 31, 2016, 01:05:16 am

Use what's left of the old card bezel and trace it out on posterboard.  Yeah, it'll be multiple pieces and that's totally fine.

Title: Re: Ideas for making a simple bezel.
Post by: leapinlew on January 31, 2016, 01:26:02 am

I remembered this from back in the day  :)

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=17175.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=17175.0)

Title: Re: Ideas for making a simple bezel.
Post by: leapinlew on January 31, 2016, 01:26:37 am

What I do is use tinted plexi and black posterboard taped to the monitor. It's completely hidden and looks good.