Zodiac Rm sign repair work
So the story is that I dug this sign out of the dumpster and saved all of its letters, for better or worse. The plastic fronts had some damage and one of the neon tubes was broken, but at least their beautiful Googieness was safe and not in a rubbish heap.
They've since been in storage for years and years and only now have I brought out their seven and half feet of lettering in order to relight it. Why the itch to restore, you may ask? The Museum of Neon Art is preparing a new exhibit based on the art of text and type and I want this sign to be in it.
Long story short, I made an appointment with a new sign shop that MONA started using but after one look at these channel letters, they said no and sent me to another shop. That guy was afraid of the fragile nature of the piece but agreed to make a can. After designing something to support the letters, I took the letters back to MONA where we flipped them over and saw the former support for the sign was completely different from what I ordered. So, I canceled the order and decided to start again.
With this photo (flipped horizontally for legibility by the way), I hope to draw out a proper support before going back to another sign shop.
Hopefully in the next couple months, I'll post its progress through to the finished product.
Wish me luck!
Zodiac Rm sign repair work
So the story is that I dug this sign out of the dumpster and saved all of its letters, for better or worse. The plastic fronts had some damage and one of the neon tubes was broken, but at least their beautiful Googieness was safe and not in a rubbish heap.
They've since been in storage for years and years and only now have I brought out their seven and half feet of lettering in order to relight it. Why the itch to restore, you may ask? The Museum of Neon Art is preparing a new exhibit based on the art of text and type and I want this sign to be in it.
Long story short, I made an appointment with a new sign shop that MONA started using but after one look at these channel letters, they said no and sent me to another shop. That guy was afraid of the fragile nature of the piece but agreed to make a can. After designing something to support the letters, I took the letters back to MONA where we flipped them over and saw the former support for the sign was completely different from what I ordered. So, I canceled the order and decided to start again.
With this photo (flipped horizontally for legibility by the way), I hope to draw out a proper support before going back to another sign shop.
Hopefully in the next couple months, I'll post its progress through to the finished product.
Wish me luck!