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Bauer Signs Rebrands Milwaukee Italian Restaurant Sign

Celebrating “the boot”

Published

8 years ago

June 21, 2016

Steve Aust Signs of the Times June 2016 Issue

Bauer Sign (New Berlin, WI), which wholesales neon signage to shops nationwide, fabricated this sign for Carini’s La Conca d’Oro, a Milwaukee pizzeria. The restaurant had previously been the site of Antonio’s Pizza. The client wanted the sign restored to its original, luminescent glory, changing “Antonio’s” to “Napoletana.” Bauer replaced all broken tubes, and CNC-routed new faces from .125-gauge aluminum, including metal bends done by hand and welded with .125 aluminum.
The resulting luminous tubing comprises 24 linear ft. of 12mm FMS BL6500 high-output white for the “Napoletana” header; 26 linear ft. of 12mm EGL AccuWall coated noviol-gold for “Pizza”, and a 75-linear-ft. border that combines 12mm FMS high-output white and 12mm EGL coated ruby-red and emerald-green tubing. Three Ventex 9,000V/30mA transformers power the border tubing, and separate Ventex 9,000V/60mA transformers drive the textual tubing.

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