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What do you put around the monitor glass?
garnerb350:
Depends on what your wallet and patience is like...
1UP has the holy grail of cab design...( everytime i see it, it blows my mind...)
I did mine with blk paint, and eventually I am going to place an instruction chart on the bottom of my bezel (probley vinyl)....
Matte board is a little bit spendy( where i'm at )...then you have to take the time to make sure the measurements are straight and have a way to have it stay in place and yada, yada, yada...and when you are drinking beers and operating power tools, you kinda forget things and misplace priorities...(LOL)
The point is that its really up to you, how you want your cab to look...dont over engineer...your main goal is that you are wanting to hide what is behind the glass... Make the cab that you always wanted... 9 out of 10 people who come to play wont even care what type of bezel you may have....
TheShanMan:
There is also this approach, if you want more of an arcade authentic style cardboard bezel:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=17175.0
1UP:
--- Quote from: garnerb350 on May 22, 2009, 03:35:55 pm ---Matte board is a little bit spendy( where i'm at )...
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Poster board, about $1.99 at most art stores! Many colors available. If it needs to be stiff, back it with scrap cardboard. Or you can get some black foamcore at Staples for about $5.
I have redone my bezel once, getting ready for another probably once I get my D9200 installed. First was just black foamcore for the temp 21" TV I was using. Second time I printed some simple blue lines to frame a larger monitor, plus instructions for CP rotation. I am looking to get something a little more flashy this time, but with the D9200, I only have about an inch on all sides...
ivwshane:
I made my bezel out of mdf and painted it black and then place the glass on top of that.
garnerb350:
--- Quote from: 1UP on May 22, 2009, 07:42:24 pm ---
Poster board, about $1.99 at most art stores! Many colors available. If it needs to be stiff, back it with scrap cardboard. Or you can get some black foamcore at Staples for about $5.
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When I hear matte, I think of the photograph framing matte...(which is spendy)....Where i am from we call poster board ( what you describe) "gatorboard"...Call it a photographer thing, i dont know...That what i was taught....
Sorry....
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