Help with monitor bezel

[zmame]

Hello i'm building a mame arcade it almost done. need some help with arcade monitor bezel use to be a vertical cabinet put TV in the cabinet insted.

here are some pictures maybe you have ideas the monitor is about 2" away from glass.






If you need any more information let me know

Thanks in advance,
           Nick S

[Epyx]

I loved that wrestling game! I hope your saving the marquee?

As for your question, not sure what you want to know? You just need an idea for how to create a bezel?  Lots of options...MDF with Plexi or glass would look good.

[zmame]

I loved that wrestling game! I hope your saving the marquee?

As for your question, not sure what you want to know? You just need an idea for how to create a bezel?  Lots of options...MDF with Plexi or glass would look good.

I have no idea how to make a bezel that would look good. I have a glass over the monitor now as you can see in the picture i have wood stops to hold the glass.. I was thinking of painting the glass (sort of like pinball backglass) Somone was telling me the heat from the monitor would flake off the paint over time.

i was also thinking of tinting the glass and cut hole in the tint for veiwing area. then making a box out of wood and painting it flat black.. just didn't know how it would look. Most of the mame machines i've seen the glass it right next to the monitor but i have about 2" from the monitor to the glass.

Would like style like happs sells but they don't make my size or ones for a flat tube for that matter.

[javeryh]

I have no bezel in my DK but you can't tell AT ALL thorough the gray tinted plexiglass - maybe that is an option?

[RobbyMac]

Make one out of foamcore?

[zmame]

Make one out of foamcore?

Exactly what i was looking for that the same as Styrofoam SM?..  if not you think home depot would sell it?

[Encryptor]

You can buy foam board at Wal Mart.


Encryptor

[RobbyMac]

yeah, craft stores, walmart, etc...
foam sandwiched between 2 layers of cardstock

Use a hot glue gun to put it all together. Get some posterboard to create your template.... it took me a few tries to get it to fit right. Then, I siliconed my corners smooth and sprayed the finished piece with matte black.

Test the spray... it might eat the foam, so I was careful to get as little on the foam at the edges as possible.

Somewhere theres a thread about making a bezel out of posterboard. I can never find that darned thing, but it is the basis upon which I made mine.

[brock.sampson]

Somewhere theres a thread about making a bezel out of posterboard. I can never find that darned thing, but it is the basis upon which I made mine.

Is this the one you are looking for?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,17175.0.html

[RobbyMac]

That'd be the one!
I need to bookmark that thing.

[zmame]

Awsome this is perfect you guys kick ass