I made this night light today. I had seen this picture on the internet and used it for some back lit acrylic. I had a little trouble with the base of the night light because the acrylic wasn’t thick enough to fit snuggly into the base. I used a strip of wood veneer and a strip of electrical tape on the opposite side of the acrylic. The base came from China, it was one of the menu holders that @smcgathyfay told us about last year.
I did some lights with the exact same base. I used black craft felt that had adhesive on the back. I only had to put it on one side of the Medium Acrylic and it fit really well. I got the felt at Hobby Lobby for 99 cents for a letter sized sheet.
It’s just lovely!..especially lit up like that. I have some of those bases, too…and have had the same trouble with fitting the acrylic into it. Somewhere, someone cut their panel in 1/4" acrylic and engraved the bottom part dow to fit. Maybe Jules? Can’t remember. Great job!
A strip of Gorilla tape works to snug up 1/8" acrylic on the base.
Someone else has done that here too but I did 50 of them last year and it was the time I said “this would be a perfect use for the GF trace feature”. I put a piece of cardstock in the slot and traced the profile of the base with a sharpie. Then, because I didn’t have a GF, I took a picture of it, imported it into Corel, traced the bitmap and then created the etch before exporting as a DXF (for the Redsail). Would have been so much easier with the GF (especially if the GF let you save stuff).
