TBT Electric Sign & Aluminum Sign

[Billct2]

I saw these two signs were still up after 30 years, done while I worked at Morgan Sign CO (now gone).
The electric sign face is cut out red & black acrylic pinned to a white acrylic face. The face details were hand painted with black one shot. The other sign is .040 aluminum all hand lettered with one shot. Funny thing is I remember when we replaced the top name panel for some reason and the aluminum wasn't the same brand and was a slightly different shade of white. I told him that it would even out after a while, guess I was wrong.

 

[T_K]

Other than the 2 whites, the panel sign still looks good. The liquor sign looks like the red needs some help, but it's still perfectly legible after 30 years. Looks like good quality signs.

 

[signbrad]

I worked on a few plastic faces like this when I was coming up. 1/8-inch acrylic glued to a 1/4-inch white acrylic face. We glued the letters with Weldon using a syringe. If you did it right, capillary action allowed the glue to neatly spread under the cutout letters and give an even color when the sign was burning. A face like this lasted a long time. No one makes this kind of durability much anymore.

If you were cutting quantities of letters you could stack the acrylic, as many as four layers, and cut four letters at a time—unless you used cheap plastic. Then the letter edges all melted together.

Brad in Kansas City