This is my first year actually building my display.
I really like the arches with 3 rows of pixels, but couldn't convince myself to pay what the coro plastic vendors ask for and still have to do a bunch of the work myself.
So I built my own...
I was able to get 5 x 6'x3' arches from a $26 sheet of 1/4" plywood from lowe's.
For whatever reason I spent a bunch of time trying to remember geometry and calculating pi.... Instead of googling it, but made it more fun, I guess...
Made a template for a quarter of a circle, but slightly offset the cut to not land on the pixels.
Rough cut them all on jig-saw, then finished 4-6 at a time on the band saw.
Marked the holes from template with a sharp tool.
Drilled them all and lightly sanded.
Painted it with some 5 year old oil based paint that was too thick to spray.
Zip tied to 1/2" pvc
Put a metal string on the bottom to release the stress from the zip ties and wood.
Added pixels.
Only took half of Saturday and half of Sunday to prep all 5 of them (minus adding the pixels).
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I really like the arches with 3 rows of pixels, but couldn't convince myself to pay what the coro plastic vendors ask for and still have to do a bunch of the work myself.
So I built my own...
I was able to get 5 x 6'x3' arches from a $26 sheet of 1/4" plywood from lowe's.
For whatever reason I spent a bunch of time trying to remember geometry and calculating pi.... Instead of googling it, but made it more fun, I guess...
Made a template for a quarter of a circle, but slightly offset the cut to not land on the pixels.
Rough cut them all on jig-saw, then finished 4-6 at a time on the band saw.
Marked the holes from template with a sharp tool.
Drilled them all and lightly sanded.
Painted it with some 5 year old oil based paint that was too thick to spray.
Zip tied to 1/2" pvc
Put a metal string on the bottom to release the stress from the zip ties and wood.
Added pixels.
Only took half of Saturday and half of Sunday to prep all 5 of them (minus adding the pixels).
Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk
