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This might be one of those that's hard to describe and even harder to get advice on but I'll give it a shot. A Navy chief friend of mine is getting ready to retire and asked me to make her shadow box. I said "no problem" then she complicated things by saying she wanted it to be the shape of our rating insignia. The rating is - air traffic controller - and the insignia is a winged microphone if that makes any sense to anyone that hasn't been around the Navy. I just about said I couldn't do it then thought what the heck. My thinking is to make it out of 3 one inch laminations of contrasting wood as the main body of the box with a smaller lamination as the front where I could cut out rectangular windows in the area inside the wings to serve as "windows" for her awards and other devices. The center part could remain solid to mount the brass plate with her info on it. I was writing this post to ask a bunch of questions but find that they were kind of answered as I was thinking what to write (or I think they were). 
The base could be square so it wouldn't need any help standing up. So I guess the question now is do you guys and gals think that it would look alright or should I punt and just make a more conventional shadow box?
The base could be square so it wouldn't need any help standing up. So I guess the question now is do you guys and gals think that it would look alright or should I punt and just make a more conventional shadow box?
Basic shadow boxes are a dime a dozen. Even the nice ones. How you're going to one make from an ATC rating badge is gonna be a real challenge but I'm looking foreward to seeing it. Mine looks pretty simple till you think about how it had to be made. Wouldn't part with it for anything. Pat
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