My family entered plastics distribution and fabrication in 1968. Dad listened to the guy in "The Graduate" and bought in. I was a teen with access to a shop filled with Plexiglas® Acrylic sheets, Lexan®, Plastic Sheets & Fiberglass sheet. Add UHMW, PTFE, plastic glue, Multiwall polycarbonate, Seaboard, architectural and engineering plastics. 40 years later I educate our team on new materials and processes - to customers worldwide. It’s new every day.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Plexiglass Glass Cup Display
This is something fun made from Plexiglass sheet. We had a customer come to us with this giant wooden toothbrush and ask us to make a matching glass for an advertising display.
There is this whole world called the "ad specialty" industry that put people's logos on... well, anything.
What makes plastic so fun (keep in mind that the word PLASTIC means: Capable of being shaped or formed: plastic material such as clay. See Synonyms at malleable.) is that with a little heat, imagination, time, and the proper forms - you can make anything.
It's certainly tricky to take go from a flat sheet to a compound curve, bond the joint, and then mate the bottom. But then, that's the magic in plastic fabrication
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