You can do a lot with acrylic and few tools. If you’re just starting out we’d suggest taking a look at [Michael Colombo’s] guide to heating, bending, and gluing to create custom acrylic enclosures.

Chances are good that you’ve already lost some blood to thermoforming, the plastics manufacturing process that turns a flat sheet of material into an unopenable clamshell package, tray inside a box, ...

Alright, so you have ordered your acrylic. You've got a couple neon pieces, a couple opaque blacks, maybe some clear...now what? Now, it's time to take those lovely square or rectangular sheets and ...