Post #285507 by Tipsy McStagger on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 7:31 PM

nice stuff....i wouldn't mind farming some work out to you. I have been working on tiki motel wall lites lately which will combine the use of back-lit signage as well as flex-neon tubing. This was the reason i posted a blurb here not long ago searching for pics of the aku-aku-sign in las vegas.....i plan on making a few different signs for the DVA Gallery's annual tiki art show this year.....some will be wall mounted, others free standing, but scaled anywhere from 3 ft -5ft tall....since you don't want to do the electric and i do, i sure could use your help in laser cutting some templates/and components for me. it would save me time on alot of the detail stuff that i could be spending on the actual construction of the lamps.....i have wanted to get these going for some time now.....i got the idea from one of coppola's films, one from the heart. Pay close attention to the opening credits where they re-created vintage miniatures of old vegas casino signs and put the names of the actors on the marquees........I'd like to achieve the same look but with old tiki bar signs. *also, the soundtrack is great....it's all done by tom waits and crystal gayle...i know, sounds like a weird combo, but it works...incidentally, tom waits met his wife on the set of this film.....also, they built a replica of the entire fremont street strip in a sound studio.....look closely at the top of the signs in that scene and you will see they get cut short just shy of the ceiling.....I also read about it somewhere as well,