Painting a cocktail glass top?

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I had a new piece of glass made for the Robotron converted to Moon Patrol cocktail I have. Trouble is, on the original it looks like the black masking around the monitor was either painted or silkscreened (or a combination of both) to the back side.

Does anyone make a simple black, square underlay with a monitor cut-out, or should I use some sort of paint on it, or carefully cut out a piece of black construction paper.....? Not sure where to go from here as I'm pretty sure regular paint isn't going to stick to glass very well.

What have you guys done?
 
One of my other hobbies is keeping fish. I have painted most of my aquariums backs with no issues. I always have used rustoleum latex and never had a problem.

Here is my 90gal tank with the back painted black.
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I had a new piece of glass made for the Robotron converted to Moon Patrol cocktail I have. Trouble is, on the original it looks like the black masking around the monitor was either painted or silkscreened (or a combination of both) to the back side.

Does anyone make a simple black, square underlay with a monitor cut-out, or should I use some sort of paint on it, or carefully cut out a piece of black construction paper.....? Not sure where to go from here as I'm pretty sure regular paint isn't going to stick to glass very well.

What have you guys done?


I've used Krylon fusion on glass bezels before. Worked perfectly.
 
I rattle canned a Defender cocktail glass on the underside and it worked well. On another one, i had TAP Plastics make a thin black plastic bezel to put under the glass. Both looked good.
 
Works for me. I'll try masking & using a rattle can and see where it goes from there. As long as the glass doesn't shift around under the clamps it should work.

I'll post pix when I get there. Working on a Galaga at the moment.

Thanks guys.
 
No surface prep on the glass other than cleaning it?

No never anything but a good cleaning. If you mess up or don't like the results it's not hard to just take a razor blade to it and remove it.
 
windex it and then wipe clean with the Bismarck tribune paper. Use the the print paper not the ads and it will get it cleaner without streaks.
Now, tape off the monitor area on the glass and use gloss black paint and spray. couple coats should do. Looks great when done.
 
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