[tchapman1000]

I manufacture custom automation for homes and offices and have an LCD touch screen that I make an acrylic bezel for. I currently buy 1/8 P95 acrylic in white or black and CNC the bezel from the rear which requires some pocketing for the LCD glass to sit in as well as a pocket for the rear box to drop in and glue to. See the image with the two white plastic parts. One of these is the plain P95 and the other is painted white with a spray can as a test. The spray painted version looks like some spraypainted it! Both lack a nice look compared to the other LCD and touch panels that I am compared to in homes. I included a few bezels I found online as reference of a white gloss look. I would assume those were injection molded, but I cannot tell if there are straight out of the mold like that. I have ABS parts injection molded for the rear box and rear lid, but they look nothing like these images of the nice bezels. This leads to the question of finishing the plastic. Spray paint in a can does not seem like a solution. I would love to find a plastic product that would CNC nicely and allow me to sand and buff the edges without a finish, but I don't think acrylic is the solution. IF I could find a coating or painting process that might be idea, but I only make a few of these at a time maybe 10-20 once in a while so sending out for finish seems like a lot of time added when I prefer to run parts and build and ship on the fly.

The question boils down to, how can I get this type of expensive look with minimal effort? Highly polished injection of color resin? Paint? Ceramic? I included a photo of the Matte P95 version of my faceplate with a mylar overlay I use on another product. I hesitate to consider an overlay as it will still appear as an overlay on the edtes and it is very expensive to have these made. http://www.cnczone.com/forums/attach...d=372282&stc=1http://www.cnczone.com/forums/attach...d=372284&stc=1http://www.cnczone.com/forums/attach...d=372286&stc=1http://www.cnczone.com/forums/attach...d=372288&stc=1http://www.cnczone.com/forums/attach...d=372290&stc=1 Any advice on how to take my bezel to the next level would be appreciated.

Thanks