Bent by flame.
Lit by gas.
Real neon — soda-lime glass bent by hand, pumped, filled with noble gas and set glowing. Not an LED strip pretending.
Dark glass,
then light.
A neon tube is dead glass until high voltage strikes an arc between its electrodes. The current excites the gas, and the whole length lights at once — neon burns red-orange, argon and mercury glow blue. Scroll, and light the tube.
Fire, glass, and a steady hand.
The bend
Straight glass tube heated over a ribbon burner until it softens, then bent to a paper pattern in one breath. Every curve is by eye and by hand.
The seal
Electrodes are fused to each end and a small tubulation added. The tube must be air-tight before it will ever hold a colour.
The bombard
High voltage drives out impurities and the last air; then the tube is dosed with pure neon or argon at low pressure and sealed off.
The burn-in
Lit and aged on the rack for hours until the colour settles even and true. Only then does it go to the wall.
Signs that hum.
Shopfronts, scripts, portraits — bent, gassed and lit by hand.
Glass, gas, and a transformer.
We bend, pump and light real neon by hand — for shopfronts, studios and private commissions. Every tube is soda-lime glass, filled with pure noble gas and burned in until the colour is right. We make few signs a year, and we never fake the glow with LED.
Light it up.
Tell us the words or the shape, the colour, the wall — we will send a bend pattern and a price.