Quoted from GCS2000:I would love to get her something Jaws related like maybe a shark eating a pin or something or the eating the word arcade but the shark needs to look decent of course.
Hi GCS2000 ,
My name is Ryan Claytor. I'm a university professor, comics artist, as well as a pinball and neon enthusiast. As someone mentioned (thanks a bunch, ckcsm ) I design neon signs in collaboration with a neon fabricator, Josh Goodacre, who has over 30 years of experience bending neon. If you'd like to take a look at a few of our collaborative designs, you can see several of them here:
http://www.tinyurl.com/clayacre
Josh, the neon fabricator, can do anything (restorations, repops, repairs, etc) but the thing he and I love doing most are custom signs, like they one you're describing. We've got quite a few of them under our belt and even more that are being worked on RIGHT NOW. All that to say, we'd love to work with you.
You also asked...
Quoted from GCS2000:Anyone know what it costs to have a sign made?
...and meSz was right, that there are...
Quoted from meSz:...Several variables to this...
...namely:
- amount of glass
- size
- amount of animation (every step or frame of animation requires another transformer, and that can mount-up quickly with complex animation)
The number of colors in a neon sign doesn't affect cost...at least not our cost. The exception to that are specialty colors, which are a little more expensive, but not enough to make a big dent in the budget, like the things mentioned above.
In closing, if you (or anyone else) are interested, I'm happy to chat more specifics about your project privately. GCS2000 I just sent you a Pinside message to get things started.
Hope this finds you well,
Ryan ClaytorClaytorArcade.gif
claytorArcade_2000px.jpg