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This is the end result of my recent topic of the same title on the grumble recently.
I tried a foamcore sink mat first, but it had too much give, so I made a box from battens which I adjusted to the correct depth with a strip of foamcore.
Before I mitred the batten I peeled the surface off a strip of the suedette matboard and wrapped it around it. But I had made the box JUST too big, so I lined it with strips of board, the crystal squeezed in - just.
The lined box doesn't look too pretty in the bottom photo, but all that mattered was that the inside of the box was perfect.
Even though the fillet aperture is just a bit smaller then the box, you still see all the crystal as it is set back about 3mm from the glass.
Customer's choice of mat colour/width, I may have gone for dark blue.
Thanks to everyone who posted ideas on the grumble.
I tried a foamcore sink mat first, but it had too much give, so I made a box from battens which I adjusted to the correct depth with a strip of foamcore.
Before I mitred the batten I peeled the surface off a strip of the suedette matboard and wrapped it around it. But I had made the box JUST too big, so I lined it with strips of board, the crystal squeezed in - just.
The lined box doesn't look too pretty in the bottom photo, but all that mattered was that the inside of the box was perfect.
Even though the fillet aperture is just a bit smaller then the box, you still see all the crystal as it is set back about 3mm from the glass.
Customer's choice of mat colour/width, I may have gone for dark blue.
Thanks to everyone who posted ideas on the grumble.

