Posted by DigitalPuppy on 8, 2000 at 12:18 PM:
In Reply to: Formica? Where to get, what is it exactly? posted by AD on 8, 2000 at 2:59 AM:
If you are lucky to know a local carpenter, you may have a great change of getting some pices of formica for free. Carpenters/home remodelers usualy have loads of this just laying around about to get thrown away.
Formica is what most kitchns use on the counter tops to cover the dull looking wood. It comes in a wide variety of styles. Some look like marble, some look like its wet but not really wet. Others look like granite, or you can just get it in plain colors.
Check with a local carpenter.
Recycle :)
~DigitalPuppy
: : Your suggstion of Plywood and contact paper will work - its been done before. I believe the Roswell machine was done with a mural piece of wall covering.
: : Personally, I use pine because it is cheap. I then cover it with either the CP overlay material from Happs, or black formica. I just completed a Tron CP with formica and it turned out great.
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: : : Well everyone, I'm going to be building a few control panels shortly and I'm wondering what the easiest way to build them is. I'm not worried about using plexiglass as I already have it for my current panel and is the only one I really want it for. The cool part about my panel I'll be building is this: I really only need to build my panels in an L-shape (top and front). The cab is the sides. I was considering using plywood and then just using plain wallpaper with computer graphics on it and then covering with contact paper. Would this work good? Suggestions?