Neon, bent by hand

Bent by hand.

Real glass and real gas, bent to your drawing in a workshop under the arches. Not an LED strip in a plastic channel.

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Argon or neon.

Neon burns orange and red, and nothing else. Argon with a drop of mercury gives the blues and the greens, and coloured glass does the rest.

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Twenty years, lit every night.

A tube bent properly and pumped properly will outlive the building it is screwed to. We have relit signs older than we are.

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Your drawing, not our font.

Send a sketch, a logo or a photograph of a sign you liked. We trace it at full size on the bench and bend to the paper.

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It goes up with a transformer.

Fitted, earthed and certified, with a spare tube in a box in case somebody reverses into it.

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The work

Glass, gas, and a flame that does not have a gauge.

Every corner in a sign is a separate heat. A long word is a long afternoon and there is no way of hurrying it.

The bench
01The benchA ribbon burner at eleven hundred degrees, and hands that have done it a few thousand times.
Bent to a drawing
02Bent to a drawingOne length of tube, heated, bent, and blown back out to round at every corner.
The flame
03The flameToo cold and the tube kinks. Too hot and it thins. You learn it by ruining glass.
BENT BY HAND, ARGON AND NEON, REAL GLASS, LIT EVERY NIGHT

What a sign costs.

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Send a sketch or a photograph, the size it needs to be and where it is going. We reply with a colour, a price and a lead time.