Big Bar Sign

Big Bar Sign

I was asked to make a light up bar sign for the Rabbit Hole Stage at Glastonbury Festival.  

It had to be big, colourful, pretty, safe, strong, waterproof and look good during the day and night.  

It was agreed that I would do everything apart from the arty bit in the middle.  This bit would be painted on site by a friend.

Here it is, ready to be taken on site.........




My design notes..... 

The original sign......

Marking out and measuring up......

Undercoating......

 Measuring out the LEDs........

Rabbit Hole Blue.........

And pink.........

BAR letters laser cut out of 6mm MDF.......

MDF light box being sealed.......

And positioned........

More blue.......

Outside LEDs  soldered together........

BAR LEDs fitted.....  
Controllers positioned.....  
Transformer installed.....

Testing LEDs.....

More pink paint..... 

Rear strengthening....... 

Sealing the letters.....

Homemade steel hanging brackets.....

Bracing and back paneling.....

 Rabbit Hole vinyl flooring.....

Finished and ready.....

Thanks to EL Wirecraft for BAR LEDs.....

www.elwirecraft.co.uk

Artisan Models for laser cutting.....

www.artisanmodelmakers.co.uk

And everyone else who knows me......

I will update this page when the arty bit is added.....

Frog xx

EL Wire Cocktail Sign

This recent project was another bar sign.

This computer image was generated and agreed upon:

The order placed and the parts arrived:

Its about 90cm x 80cm

To transfer the image from the laptop to the sign, I used a digital projector and white marker pen:

Then I had to find a good glue that could glue PVC tube to acrylic.  The 4th type of glue I tried worked best.

The Ultra EL wire was threaded through clear PVC tubes that were cut to length for each letter.

The glue took 24 hours to fully set and I used tape to hold the letters in place.

I did the gluing over about 6 or 7 evenings.

The tight curves in the R's kept coming off and so they took 3 goes to get them to finally stick.

When it was finished, the sign looked great........

Cheers,

Frog xx