Ron Bontz
06-29-2011, 10:43 PM
A few of us at the fire house decided to make some thing as a memorial to those 343 FF lost Sept. 11 for the tenth anniversary. A couple of the guys bought a 12" long 40 lb. piece of one of the I beams and I have been given the task of building a worthy pedestal to display it.
My thoughts are to make two stainless steel columns with a diamond plate base and an acrylic top/cover over it with a small bronze plate with the date on it. All illuminated with two led lights mounted in the base pointing up. The overall design is still burning the saw dust in my head at the moment. But I am working on it.
My question is.....How difficult would it be to laser engrave all the names into the stainless steel and how expensive is something like this? We considered taping the columns off and blasting/etching windows and floors on the outside to mimic the towers. Is this feasible with laser engraving?
If all else fails my back up plan is to simply build a 4 sided raised panel, cathedral style, rotating pedestal out of white ash and have that engraved with all the names. This includes the port authority, P.D., etc. Doable? Thanks in advance for any input into this. I have about 2 months to get it finished. Not a lot of time for me.:)
My thoughts are to make two stainless steel columns with a diamond plate base and an acrylic top/cover over it with a small bronze plate with the date on it. All illuminated with two led lights mounted in the base pointing up. The overall design is still burning the saw dust in my head at the moment. But I am working on it.
My question is.....How difficult would it be to laser engrave all the names into the stainless steel and how expensive is something like this? We considered taping the columns off and blasting/etching windows and floors on the outside to mimic the towers. Is this feasible with laser engraving?
If all else fails my back up plan is to simply build a 4 sided raised panel, cathedral style, rotating pedestal out of white ash and have that engraved with all the names. This includes the port authority, P.D., etc. Doable? Thanks in advance for any input into this. I have about 2 months to get it finished. Not a lot of time for me.:)