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Bus Blind

Retro light-up gigantic sign!

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/bus-blind • Posted by Tom

This is an old Edinburgh bus blind - a huge roll of all the destinations for the front of the bus. I made a frame from some wood, painted it black, and strung some LED fairy lights on the back. The blind rolls on some standard rollerblind mounts. You can pick up old bus blinds pretty cheap on eBay - it's great to find some with destinations you recognise. They're very very long - if you didn't want it to roll, you could make loads of these by cutting the roll.

You will need

Project Budget
Reasonably Priced

Time

6 h 00

Difficulty

So-so
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Description

This is an old Edinburgh bus blind - a huge roll of all the destinations for the front of the bus. I made a frame from some wood, painted it black, and strung some LED fairy lights on the back. The blind rolls on some standard rollerblind mounts. You can pick up old bus blinds pretty cheap on eBay - it's great to find some with destinations you recognise. They're very very long - if you didn't want it to roll, you could make loads of these by cutting the roll.

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