For a piece that small, I would head to my local plastics dealer. My guy sells their scraps by the pound, and a 1/2"x 5" square would be probably less than $1. Not worth the time or cost of adhesive to glue (weld) to fabricate my own piece.
Ah great we can add that to our preferred list:
Weld-On No. 3
Chanel No. 5
Jack Daniels No. 7
Marshall Stack No. 11
So @gafftapegreenia how many of these 5" blocks you gonna make?
And also what are you using it for?Making plastic gels for a led fixture or something?
5" seems undersized. The kid must be small for 5" to look right.
Either way if it had to be more I was gonna suggest a cool dying method to do if you had to make them en masses.
Personally a little texture between the pieces would give it some life clear candy always has some bubbles or something odd.
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Post pictures. I always enjoy a good prop.
@Van Why do you caution against flaming?Cut the pieces a bit over-sized. line up one side. apply a generous amount of cement, fold the pieces together, Hold tight for bonding. Over sized pieces will allow you to cut the inevitable bubbles from the perimeter. Once routed, sanded and scraped I would not attempt to flame the edge. Use a small heat gun like what you'd use for heat-shrink tubing.
I've had...issues, flaming cemented joints, with certain cements. I learned, the hard way, to stay away from the open flame and stick with a heat gun.
You are correct, heat polishing a seam is always the last step. and NEVER clean a flamed edge with Alcohol...I thought it was only bad try to adhere a piece that had already been flame-polished? It will crackle the entire piece. My training suggested that flame-polish was a last-step only. Is there more to it than that?
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