I didn’t really expect the discussion for my last post to revolve entirely around a casual, offhand comment about my doing some work on a dry erase board, but with my lazy and irregular recent schedule of site updates I am happy that there is discussion at all. Still, as a creature of impulse I obviously jumped into the mindset of how totally awesome dry erase boards are and made an afternoon run over to Lowes. For some strange reason a nice, big board is universally expensive (My dad found perhaps the most overpriced one of them all). I don’t really get it…
Twenty minutes at a hardware store and I left with:
3 foot x 5 foot sheet of acrylic plastic – $35
4 sets of velcro wall fastners – $5
In addition to the $40 in raw materials it also took me about five minutes to put this together on my own. And while it’s obviously not the most stylish, high-tech dry erase board in the world… for $1500 less than my dad’s board I think I got a pretty good deal. I will probably eventually cover up the corners (so you can’t see the velcro fastners) with little pictures or something, but in the mean time I am pretty pumped to enjoy fifteen square feet of see-through dry-erase goodness.
I tried this before. Let me assure you that if you erase (if you even can) this “board” the dust from erasure will be attracted by static electricity to your wall – said electricity generated by your vigorous erasing of Lukas’ bad ideas – and then you will find a virtual halo of black dry erase ink “soot” on the otherwise pristine walls I just paid to paint…
glad i could provide you with something to do
and i like that your dad is making fun of lukas lol
hmm… it erases just fine (dry erase markers anyway) so far, and I will try to use the little spray bottle of acryclic cleaner when doing a lot of erasing. You think it would help if I put a border around the edge to separate it from the wall a bit?
nice… it’s not glass, but it’s clear nonetheless. a little more separation between the wall and the actual board would make an even cooler effect (and semi-solve your inevitable static electricity dry-erase-marker-flecks problem)
Highly impressed. This is way cool!