Post #275364 by TreeTiki wahine on Thu, Dec 28, 2006 6:27 PM

If I can see what you are looking at doing - I could offer a direct recommendation. You could email me a sketch or something.

Neon is not all the same - gasses, tube (colored or clear where the gas itself makes the color but nothing shows when the lighting is 'off'), dia. of glass, etc. Then there are rubber booties, PK's, glass housings.............. All the stuff needed so that you are UL (underwriters lab - electrical code compliant) and don't start a flaming area that used to be a roof over or around a tikihead. Reds, pinks, orangey colors are especially tricky......... taking expertise in the 'burn in' period.

To see what bad is, go visit the casino complex off of the 91 around Avalon - Alameda between the 110 & 91. The interior neon borders along the ceiling soffits are awful.......... color is not consistent like it should be.

As a former professional designer & art director for a mid-sized elecrical sign co. in LA & the SE US - I know people & fabricators & am speaking from experience over 25 years.

Puka Room sign might have been made by T&T neon on cherry above PCH (just a guess). Nice sign BTW.

da treetiki wahine