Here's a quick and dirty fake movie marquee to be used at a high school graduation party. Some one else will paint and letter with the three movies showing at the party.
I started with two sheets of 1/2" plywood. Good stuff. ACX. I drew out the desired plan, drawn from a quick image search on Google. I liked the deco one. I then cut out the major shapes of the top and ripped the 3/4" and 2" strips on the table saw from one sheet of plywood. Those pieces were then mounted with glue and finishing nails onto the other sheet of plywood with 1/4" gaps separating all the pieces. After that I just trimmed the top edge of the underlying plywood to match the mounted pieces. Easy-peasy. About 4 hours work.
