Light Box Suggestions

[Taboo]

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I'm looking for a good quality box that's fairly cheap and reliable. Can you recommend some brands/types?

[lalovergel]

if you want something really cheap (70-100) then look for LightTracer. it's not glass and wood, it's just plastic, but it makes it durable, and it's fairly good. I own one, that's why i dare recommend it, though i don't know how serious you are into it yet. anyway, check it.

[Rabid]

Agree, with lalovergel, that is primarily what my school used in college days although I had my own personal wich cost a pretty penny...

[VulgarDragon]

Why not build one yourself?

[subversive-imaginati]

Seconding the shew's suggestion, mine is homemade. Can't say I notice any difference between it and the store brought ones.

[alesoun]

Mine's also home-made; wood with a perspex top. Does tend to get hot, though... but I hardly ever use it, so I can live with that.

[VulgarDragon]

My lightbox is simply a old light fixture that is enclosed in a metal box. I brought it cheap from a yard sale. I spliced extension cords into the light sockets and put a glass cutting board on top. It is very crude and ghetto, but it works.

Some people simply use glass table, and stick a lamp at the bottom. I am planning on building a bigger and better one later, by making a wooden box and putting fluorescent lamps inside. It's easy and not expensive.

[Taboo]

Build one, huh? That sounds like a good project idea!

Thanks for all the imput, it's really helpful.

[kev ferrara]

Mine...

1. Tupperware box 16x23
2. Clear plastic to fit over it. (I think I used a piece of plexiglass or similar)
3. flourescent fixture to stick inside. (check local salvation army)

Mount fixture in box, send cord out through a drilled hole, attach clear plastic on top - I drilled screw holes in four corners of plexiglass top and tupperware bottom, attached via screws. Countersink screws so the surface of plexiglass remains smooth.

If "on" switch is located on fixture (where you can't get to it because it is encased inside the box) you just leave fixture on and find a plug cord that has a click on-off switch to plug the fixture cord into after it gets out of the box.

If you want you can drill a hole in back so you can hang it on a nail over your drawing board because its so ightweight.

kev

[Realmdrifter]

Mine's also home-made; wood with a perspex top. Does tend to get hot, though... but I hardly ever use it, so I can live with that.

U should get the one side of the perspex frosted(sandblasted) - helps diffuse the light and spreads it more evenly, put it up higher from the lighting - depending on what type you use.