finishing a shadowbox with trapped plexiglass

I suppose it is too late now but I would build the frame in two parts: an inner and an outer. Then you can do the finishing work before inserting the glass or Plexiglas and it can be made so the glass can be replaced if it ever becomes damaged.

Have you pulled the ‘skin’ off the Plexiglas yet?

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Looks like a job for 3M Blue Tape Man!

no I havent skinned it yet, so that is one of my options I suppose…And yes lew, I had thought about taping along the edges, I was just hoping maybe some old timer had some pearls of wisdom :)

When I was first designing it I was actually going to have the from beading be seperate from the entire case, by cutting it off the front of the sideboards then rabbet it then attach it to the front, but I got lazy…

-- If you can't build it, code it. If you can't code it, build it. But always ALWAYS take a picture.

I honestly would recommend using real glass instead of plexi. You can scrape any finish off of it with a razor blade scraper and it won’t scratch like Plexi will over time.

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yea i thought about that too interpim…but i was concerned about breakage because of trapping it in the frame…If I was still doing the detached front, I would have done that…

-- If you can't build it, code it. If you can't code it, build it. But always ALWAYS take a picture.

I agree with the glass idea just make sure it’s tempered glass. More costly but worth it.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon