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At home, cutting Plexiglas is very rarely required. Usually such work is carried out by specialists in workshops. However, this skill can be useful in everyday life. After all, sometimes there is a desire to make a vase, an aquarium or a small decorative table with your own hands. So, the subject of our review is plexiglass. How to cut such material?

Material Features

Not everyone knows what plexiglass is. How to cut it at home and what features does it have? First of all, plexiglass has the performance characteristics of durable plastic, and also looks like ordinary glass. This material is transparent. However, unlike glass, it does not break.

Thanks to these properties, plexiglass has become popular. How to cut it at home? In this case, not everything is so simple. The material itself is quite durable. plexiglass received wide application. Indeed, in some cases, using ordinary glass is dangerous and problematic. You can process the material by almost all available methods. However, there are some nuances that should be considered when working with plexiglass.

Laser cutting of plexiglass

How are plexiglass products made in production? As a rule, a laser is used to cut this material. This is the most convenient method. However, it is simply impossible to apply it at home. Thanks to a thin laser, an accurate incision can be made. In this way, even small details of future products are usually cut out. However, this cutting method has certain limitations: the laser beam creates a high stress on the material. In the future, it is simply impossible to glue individual parts together.

Plexiglas products can only be cut in industrial conditions. If necessary, contact the appropriate organization for assistance. The main thing is to make all the drawings in advance. It is also worth choosing an experienced master.

Plexiglas: how to cut?

In some cases, the use of a saw is allowed. It can be tape or disk. The last type of saw is designed for a straight cut. In this case, the seam is neat and clear. As for it, it is suitable for the manufacture of blanks. It is unlikely that it will be possible to cut clear edges with such a tool. To make the surface smoother, it is recommended to use a cutter.

It should be noted that this method of cutting plexiglass can be used not only in production, but also at home.

Special equipment

Plexiglas products are cut with a high-speed tool. This allows you to get a smooth and high-quality seam. The speed of such equipment can be up to 4 thousand revolutions per minute. After that, the plexiglass undergoes additional mechanical processing.

However, do not forget that this material has a small thermal conductivity. As a result of cutting at high speed, the edges can quickly heat up. Some instruments have a Plexiglas mode.

Rescue hacksaw for metal

If you need to cut plexiglass at home, you can use This is the most affordable tool. However, this method has a serious drawback: the cut remains rough and rough. To eliminate such a defect, additional processing is required. To smooth the cut, sandpaper or a file is usually used.

Cutting plexiglass with a cutter

Ways to cut plexiglass at home can be completely different. Someone uses a hacksaw for metal, and someone uses a cutter. In fact, this tool is a saw with only one tooth. To cut plexiglass, you need a metal ruler of a certain length. This tool must be placed on the sheet of material in the place where you want to split it. After that, you need to hold the cutter along the ruler.

When the cut reaches ½ of the sheet thickness, you can stop and then gently break the material. If defects appear, they can be smoothed out. To do this, it is necessary to process the edge of the plexiglass with sandpaper. If desired, the cutter can be made independently from an emery cloth. Some experienced craftsmen use pieces of glass to cut Plexiglas. With this method, reliable protection for the hands is required.

Applying simple tools

If cutting plexiglass with a laser is for you expensive pleasure, then you can cut the material with improvised materials. Very often, nichrome thread is used for such work. Before cutting, it must be heated. This will require a transformer whose power is 24 watts.

As a result of simple manipulations, you can carefully cut the plexiglass. Heated just melts the material. This allows not only to cut plexiglass, but also to cut curly details.

Also some masters use this option is suitable for cutting plexiglass at home. A screwdriver is usually pressed against the material with its butt. In this case, the tool must be held by the very edge of the handle. After that, the screwdriver blade is heated with a soldering iron, the power of which is 25 watts.

Plexiglas should start to melt. The tip of the screwdriver simply draws a line where the cut should be. After that, plexiglass breaks easily. To get a straight line, you can use a metal ruler or a hacksaw blade without teeth.

In addition to the methods described above, you can cut plexiglass with a cutter or circular saw. The thickness of the blade in this case should be no more than 1 mm. It is worth considering that smoke may appear during the cutting process. In this case, the edges of the material often foam due to the increase in temperature as a result of friction. This can be avoided. It is necessary to cool the working surface of the tool.

Plexiglas crafts are becoming more and more popular. This beautiful and malleable material is suitable for making figurines, photo frames and other interesting and beautiful things. In this article, we will tell you how to make a price tag holder and a phone stand out of plexiglass.

Advantages and disadvantages

Plexiglas has become a popular craft material due to the following qualities:

  • ease;
  • durability;
  • resistance to ultraviolet radiation;
  • impact resistance;
  • pliability to many types of processing and decoration.

The disadvantages of this material include flammability and poor scratch resistance.

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Classification

There are several types of plexiglass.

  1. Transparent. Colorless smooth sheets that transmit up to 95% of light. Suitable for etching and engraving. A frame or a carved figure made of such material looks great with an LED garland fixed around the perimeter.
  2. Color. The material has a uniform color, transmits 20-75% of the light, depending on the thickness of the sheet and the saturation of the shade. Such plexiglass can be relatively transparent or frosted, gently diffusing light. It makes spectacular stained-glass windows and lamps. Sheets that let in a minimum of light are especially good for nightlights.
  3. corrugated. On one side of the sheet there is a convex pattern. Such plexiglass can be both transparent and colored. It is rarely used for crafts.
Plexiglas is a popular material for making various figures.

General Instructions

Now let's look at how to make simple but very useful things out of plexiglass: a price tag holder and a phone stand.

Instrument preparation

To work with plexiglass, you will need the following tools:

  • ruler;
  • knife, circular saw or jigsaw;
  • weight;
  • inclined stop;
  • thermal cutter.

The cutter can be made by yourself. For this you will need:

  • nitrochrome wire 0.5–1 mm thick and 30–50 cm long;
  • frame;
  • 12 V power supply.

Thanks to a special knife for plexiglass, you can easily cut the desired parts from this material

The wire is fixed on the frame and connected to a power source. This device is needed to bend plexiglass.

Draw the exact outlines of the blanks in advance: an error of 1 cm can make the item unusable. Both designs have vertically arranged parts, so the base must be secure so that they do not fall.

Making a price tag holder

There are several types of price tag holders. For example, consider the manufacture of a desktop. It has the following shape: an inclined vertical part extends from the base with a tight clamp at the top, thanks to which the price sheet does not fall out. For such a product, you need a transparent sheet with a thickness of 1.5-3 mm.

The work is done like this:


Making a phone stand

For example, consider creating a stand with a base, a vertical part, a bottom stop and side holders. All these parts can be rectangular or made in an artistic form.


Plexiglas phone stand is quite easy to manufacture

For example, you can make a stand in the form of a man with holders in the form of hands.

The stand is made as follows:


By learning how to work with plexiglass, you can even set up your own business, creating either standard inexpensive items in large quantities, or unique products that have artistic value as well.

LEDs, which appeared on sale not so long ago, immediately gained popularity among fans of crafting various crafts. Designers also benefit from them. In this article, we will talk about easy-to-make luminous crafts - pictures from LEDs. They can come in handy in different situations - for entertaining kids at a matinee (can be hung on threads, on Christmas trees, on clothes), to decorate a bicycle, can be used as an icon glowing in a darkened room and as an element.

This little thing can be done by any person, even a child, if he is told what and how to do in stages.

What do you need for this craft.

Multi-colored LEDs; small resistors for 100 - 500 Ohms; wires; heat shrink tubing or electrical tape, batteries, plexiglass.

Stages of work.

We cut the wires to the desired length. If you decide to make a night light, it is better if each wire has a different length. If the luminous figurines hang differently, it will be more interesting and beautiful.

After that, we put on heat shrink and, as it should be done in these cases, we heat the tubes.

We make holes in the cross prepared ahead of time and lay communications and batteries. We connect all the wires in parallel and through the switch we finish with batteries.

When the electrician is finished, we proceed to the actual light part. You need to make the right number of squares of plexiglass. Their number is equal to the number of LEDs.

For the made figures, we will demolish the corner and make a side hole, which is necessary in order to insert the LED into it. We draw the desired drawing on a paper layout, transfer it to a workpiece made of plexiglass, and use a boron machine to draw the outline of the drawing.

When the above steps are completed, you need to clean the plexiglass and sand it.

In order to connect the blanks with LEDs, we use epoxy glue. You only need to put a little glue into the hole.

We immediately insert the LEDs into the holes with the newly added glue. After the epoxy has hardened, the work can be considered completed. It remains only to turn on the illumination and enjoy the result.

All. The craft is ready. You can admire her.

Material such as plexiglass is widespread and used in many areas.
human activity. It is used in roof glazing of modern greenhouses, and the material is also in great demand in industrial and domestic glazing, different kinds protective fencing is also made using this durable material, production is also not complete without durable acrylic.

In stores you can find huge selection Plexiglas products are:

  • bathroom accessories;
  • shower cabins;
  • kitchen aprons;
  • all kinds of shelves;
  • advertising posters;
  • boxes;
  • canopies, visors;
  • dishes;
  • stained glass windows and various other elements.

Products made from this durable transparent material are in demand in offices, in advertising, trade, these are price tag holders, stands for various products, menu holders, business card holders, mobile phone holders, holders for jewelry and cosmetic products are also in great demand.

It is convenient to make products from acrylic and plexiglass, because it is quite simple to process the material, there is no need to use special tools. It is thanks to these characteristics that plexiglass is actively used in the manufacture of various decorative elements, both on a production scale and with their own hands.

DIY acrylic products

If you wish, you can independently, without special equipment, make a product from plexiglass at home. Making such an item will require you to have this very acrylic, you may also need a cutter or a jigsaw for cutting, prepare a special glue based on acrylic chips for gluing. If you are not going to work with a new plexiglass element, then you may need to perform a polishing, grinding step in order to remove existing damage, scratches from the surface of the material.

Plexiglass phone stand

Such a product as a phone stand can be made at home. You can come up with a custom design, for example, by adding a round or other geometric element. Below we will consider what is required for the manufacture of such a stand, and we will directly describe the manufacturing process.

You will need:

  • wire, it should be nichrome, 0.5-1 mm thick, length within 30-50 cm;
  • 12V power supply;
  • a flat board, a furniture shield is suitable;
  • plexiglass.

The peculiarity of the chosen material is that products made of plexiglass and also acrylic can be made with a smooth bend. In order to make a homemade cutter, it is necessary to fix the prepared wire along the even end of the board. On the one hand, you can hook it on a self-tapping screw, on the other hand, it is worth providing a “tensioner”, this is necessary in order to exclude the possibility of sagging of the wire when it is heated. As a "tensioner" you can use the spring available in the "household".

When the thread is fixed, we connect it to a power source, it is better if it is with the ability to adjust the power. At this stage, you already have a product for bending plexiglass.

Now you need to prepare the desired size of the workpiece. Treat its ends with sandpaper, this will be the first stage. In order to get a really neat edge, use GOI paste and a soft piece of fabric at the final stage of processing. After processing the ends, your workpiece should have neat edges, without notches and hooks.

Next, you need to carefully bend the future stand. It is necessary to place the part on the edge of the bending board, the fold line should be located directly above the stretched wire. Turn on the heating element and wait about five minutes. When the workpiece warms up, proceed to bending.

Important!!! You need to bend the workpiece in the opposite direction from the heater.

Performing each new fold, give the workpiece time to cool, so to speak, fix the action. As a result of such simple manipulations, you can independently make your own acrylic phone holder with your own design.

Plexiglas has recently found wide application in various industries. Partitions in offices, advertising products, aquariums and other decor items are made from it. This material is easy to work with at home. You can buy it in any trade department building materials.

Good lighting in the house plays an important role in any design decision. original decoration your apartment can become a lamp made of plexiglass with your own hands. A little imagination, perseverance - and your room will sparkle with new colors.

How to make an original lamp yourself?

If you have decided on the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bmanufacturing, then it's time to get to work. The product requires a vessel made of organic glass. You will need tools: a circular saw, scissors, a pencil. Stock up on carbon paper, stencil, paint. You also need a cartridge and a wire with a switch.


Expert opinion

Ivan Zaitsev

Lighting specialist, consultant in the department building materials a large chain of stores

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You can buy a stencil or you can make your own. There are a lot of different options on the network, you should choose the one you like and print it. You need to copy the stencil onto vinyl paper using carbon paper. Cut out the stencil according to the applied pattern, remove the protective film and stick it on the plexiglass. Bonding requires care, the surface must be clean and dry.

The next stage in the work is painting the plexiglass. It is better to apply paint from a sprayer: layer by layer. The number of layers is determined visually, depending on the quality of the application. It is better to choose paint to match the home interior.

The paint should dry well, a day is enough. Remove the stencil carefully, without scratching the painted surface. It is possible to use plexiglass as a material for the lamp, which can be both transparent and various colors. Then at home painting is not required.

It remains to connect the cartridge and the wire with the switch, check how the lamp works.

A table lamp or floor lamp, in addition to decorating with a stencil, can also be decorated with photographs. Beautiful landscapes, city streets will create a unique look of the product. And children's photos, family vacations and celebrations will remind you of happy moments. This plexiglass lamp will not leave anyone indifferent. What a pleasure to receive it as a gift! Photos of friends, parents, grandchildren with grandparents - whatever your imagination wants!

Little crafting tricks

  • Favorite photos need to be printed on a printer using special paper. The paper should not be very thick, as it should allow enough light to pass through.
  • Cut out the resulting images and fix them on a transparent film.
  • Attach a cut sheet of organic glass to the frame of the lamp, fix a film with a photo on it, then put more plexiglass on top.
  • Fasten all elements with screws, cut off the protruding edges of the film.

In addition to floor and table lamps, you can make your own hands and a ceiling chandelier. In addition, it is only necessary to provide special fasteners. For decoration, a decorative thread is suitable, preferably linen. Choose the appropriate color to match the lamp or interior. It will look original in weaving.



Plexiglas for the manufacture of lamps can be purchased at building materials stores. It is convenient to process it at home. The material can be easily sawn with a circular saw. Better to drink on average speed so as not to melt from overheating. You can drill it with ordinary drills. It is recommended to put plywood under the glass when drilling to prevent cracking.

With absence necessary tool at home can be cut in the store into the desired parts in shape and size.

Do-it-yourself light source is ready. It remains to admire the results of the work. The original product of decor will not leave anyone indifferent.