Search for the best Acrylic Edge Polishing Machine

[WRAPPED Studio]

We have recently begun making our own acrylic facemounts and would like to make most of the production in house instead of outsourcing certain parts of the process. A part of that would mean polishing our own acrylic edges when we cut it in house. I was hoping someone out there would have some experience with these machines and would know which would work best for a small production studio. I have really only found about three machines when doing my own research(Hegner HSM 300, Bermaq Amt, and the CR Clarke machines) but I have a feeling there is more out there that I'm not seeing. Any ideas or any personal experience with these machines would be greatly appreciated.

 

[CanuckSigns]

Is buying a laser cutter an option? Polished edges right off the machine.

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Looking on Youtube, seeing lots of machines. Prices are all over the place as well.

 

[WRAPPED Studio]

Is buying a laser cutter an option? Polished edges right off the machine.

That is something I should look into as well but they are pretty expensive and seem to need a lot more room than a small edge polisher.

 

[WRAPPED Studio]

Looking on Youtube, seeing lots of machines. Prices are all over the place as well.

Yeah there's some that start at like 3000 but they're from alibaba so idk how reliable they are. Most of the others I've seen are about 5k-10k but would like to know which is the best before dropping a crazy amount on something that isn't reliable and ends up costing me more in the long run. Or if there is a cheaper and reliable option out there that would be great too.

 

[Ryze Signs]

We use a laser it gives polished edges right off the bat. Before we would flame polish with a propane or mapp gas torch. I'm not sure any machine would be capable of polishing insides and corners of small letters.

Lases come in many sizes. Personally I wouldn't get one smaller than 4'x8'.

 

[WRAPPED Studio]

We use a laser it gives polished edges right off the bat. Before we would flame polish with a propane or mapp gas torch.

Can you send me a link of the laser cutter that you use? Also a link demonstrating the flame polish method. Thank you for reaching out.

 

[cornholio]

Laser and flame polishing leaves tension in some material. Be sure you can live with that. Make the test by cleaning the lasered edges with alcohol for example.