[Jewelry making - Article 00032] - Re: [Orchid] [Looking 4] plastic sheets

[Linda Moughemer]

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    Pat, you could use acrylic sheet for this application.  Acrylic
    comes in transparent, translucent and opaque, in the colors you need
    and in a variety of thickness options.  Not everyone who has acrylic
    sheet has all the colors in stock and the 16th inch, last time I
    checked quite some time ago , didn't come in very many colors. If
    you can, however,  find the thickness and colors you need, you can
    epoxy your image to the acrylic. Keep the hole for the post as small
    as possible without cracking the plastic. It works best if you
    abrade the surface(only in the area to be glued) with silicon
    carbide paper. 

    I always got my plastics in NYC on Canal Street but you might find
    what you need at your local window glass store or a sign shop.  Sign
    shops frequently have several different kinds of plastic sheet in
    addition to acrylic or they'll know a local supplier. Since it
    sounds as if you may need a relatively thin plastic backing, if you
    can't find acrylic in the thickness and colors you need, you might
    try to use one of the brands of shrinkable plastic sheets.  That way
    you could color the plastic yourself and shrink it to thicken it. (I
    don't know if you could just shrink it with the metal parts already
    in place.)  There is some information about this material at
    www.luckysquirrel.com.  Or, you might consider one of the epoxy
    coloring systems like Durenamel (TM) or Colores(TM) over acrylic or
    metal plates. 

    You might try here for acrylic sheet.
    http://www.ecomplastics.com/ecomplastics/acplas.html. This company
    has some interesting colors but the thinnest is 1/8 ".
    http://saturn.users1.50megs.com/colors.htm The Rio catalogue has
    information about the shrink plastic and the epoxy coloring systems. 
    Linda Moughemer

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