Bea Evil wrote:
OH ..... MY ..... well, you will certainly be hearing from ME! That's so cooool! 
(oh yes, there will be skulls...)
hah! Thanks Vampire! I know a pretty good way to affix the stuff.. I am going to do an instructable when I get a chance.. hopefully soon. I have been meaning to do a white NeonString on black acrylic skull design, but I think I am going to do a cross instead.
In Houston there is a store called Regal Plastics, that sells sheets of various kinds of plastic. If you get "acrylic," there is a glue that works very nice for gluing the el wire to it. It is a little white can of "IPS Weld-On 3." It is thinner than water. And they also sell the "Plasticator" which is a bottle with a syringe on it, for applying the super runny glue. They have a regular syringe too, but I don't recommend it, because after one use, the glue eats the rubber stopper and renders it useless, even if you wash it right away. So basically, it's like this:
Choose the color of your acrylic. If you use clear, you can print a skull or whatever from the Internet, print it, and tape it onto the back of the clear acrylic. You can use the printout as your guide for gluing. When done, remove the printout that you taped, and spray paint the back of the plastic black, or white, or whatever. If you find some scrap acrylic that is not clear, then you can print out your shape, cut it out, glue it down, and scratch around it with a pointy object, so that you can use the scratches as your guide while gluing.
You drill a hole, run the EL wire through from behind. Hold about an inch or so of it in place, put a tiny little bit of the glue on. It is so runny, it flows down to where the EL wire and acrylic meet. Hold the wire in place for like 30-60 seconds, and then move on to the next inch or so. I know it sounds tedious, but.. well it IS tedious. It's how I did the jack o lantern on my previous post, and the snowflake, lucky clover, and "Games" sign on my website.
That is just one possible method of course. I also thought about doing a giant skull on a black sheet, like 10 feet tall or something. It could be sewn on, and I could just roll the whole thing up when Halloween is over, etc. But, like the Instructables and half a million other things, I don't seem to find the time!
There is also a step by step, illustrated guide on the website for people who want to solder it up themselves.
Whew this is a long post. This is what happens when I get going on stuff that lights up.
Vampire, if you do a skull, I can has pictures??
-Eryq
