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Where to get faux neon sign?
- Thread starter nolanola
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MikePro
New Member
just did a project where we replaced all the neon in a set of 8ft tall letters in Milwaukee with Sloan FlexiBrite LED tubes. the silicone encasing has a hollow-channel at the rounded-top that helps diffuse the light diodes, lights up super clean & bright with zero "christmas-tree" effect.
Like Mike mentioned, depending on what you are trying to achieve is the product you will need to use. We've used both flexible and rigid like GE and Sloan. GE contour product need to be heated but hold the letter shape really well. You can also route the acrylic and routed to give the neon look too. If you like to upload the design I can gladly help you out.
nolanola
New Member
Hey All - Thank you for the help thus far, but we are looking to specifically outsource the product.
We have successfully creates imitation neon signs in house with GLLS products but are not interested in continuing making products in house.
Does Sloan or GE offer finished products?
We have successfully creates imitation neon signs in house with GLLS products but are not interested in continuing making products in house.
Does Sloan or GE offer finished products?
Bradley D
www.jigsign.com
https://www.jigsign.com/edge-lit
Might want to consider an edge lit resin sign. They are neon faux window signs.
Might want to consider an edge lit resin sign. They are neon faux window signs.
Bradley D
www.jigsign.com
If it is for something like Biglari signature that they put on Steak n Shake, that is a routed letter, filled with leds. You'd have to be careful finding fab shops that won't try to poach your customer from you. GE and Sloan do not offer finished products. You'd have to call someone like Bitro or SteelArt. This Biglari is no fun if it is fabbed badly. There is nothing to service except the power supply, so any outages means you have to refab the whole thing...
CalverleyDesign
President - The Calverley Group
Can you provide a few examples - Trace@NorthStarSignsandGraphics.com
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William Spencer
If it is for something like Biglari signature that they put on Steak n Shake, that is a routed letter, filled with leds. You'd have to be careful finding fab shops that won't try to poach your customer from you. GE and Sloan do not offer finished products. You'd have to call someone like Bitro or SteelArt. This Biglari is no fun if it is fabbed badly. There is nothing to service except the power supply, so any outages means you have to refab the whole thing...
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William Spencer
the cambo of fonts are super. the sign is looking good and made nicely
Johnny Best
Active Member
‘Neon is neon’.
jfiscus
Rap Master
If you are looking for someone to outsource this to, try Grimco. They came in and went through their LED items with us when we were considering switching vendors for certain items. While they were here they said that they make these (I was hoping to get info on how to make them in-house). Ask for Ben Hannam there. bhannam@grimco.com
brdesign
New Member
Unfortunately one of the towns that I commonly deal with, has banned neon signs in their sign code years ago. Led and faux neon is one way to get around the code.
Bradley D
www.jigsign.com
We just do acrylic push through to get a neon like affect. We also do some cool logo boxes with push through graphics that can get more creative. The difficult part is that you need fairly good router skills/ hold down techniques to do long thin lines required for neon faux sign on a router. I guess we are a competitor for GRIMCO for the fancier channel letter styles although we are much smaller. We got quite a bit of work from Grimco clients during the good old covidian times when the Grimco factory in Mexico had a delay for some reason and people were scrabbling for alternatives.