Perspex Sweet Pastels - 3mm x 600mm x 300mm

Our 3mm Sweet Pastel Acrylic Sheets (600mm × 300mm) bring a burst of playful colour to any project. This is our most vibrant and mouth-watering range yet, a pick-and-mix palette designed to spark ideas the moment you see it. Behind the fun, each sheet delivers the same trusted performance as premium cell-cast acrylic, ready for both laser cutting and hand-finishing

Available in a curated pastel spectrum of colours, inspired by classic confectionery; Raspberry Sherbet (light red), Lemon Bon Bon (light yellow), Candy Floss Blue (light blue), Spearmint Green (light green) Orange Fizz (light orange), Coral Candy (amber), Parma Violet (light purple) and Sour Grapes (pink).

Two finishes, one sheet: Each sheet features a Matt surface on one side and a Gloss surface on the other, giving you instant flexibility in look and feel. They’re fully opaque with low light transmission, and as strong and durable as standard acrylic, ideal for demanding, everyday use.

Originally developed for retail displays, Sweet Pastels now shine across a huge range of creative and technical applications: Arts & crafts, Project enclosures, Signage & point-of-sale, Architectural details, Casings & decorative panels, Design & Technology projects.

The image below illustrates how you can use multiple colours to create a single item. Functional, imaginative, and they look unique, and tasty.

Working with Perspex acrylic sheets:

Perspex is a versatile material that can be cut, drilled, laser cut and thermoformed

Perspex is a thermoplastic which means that when it is heated above 140-180°C it becomes flexible. This allows the material to be formed into the required shape or bent. Once the material cools below 85°C it becomes rigid again.

Perspex sheets are often shaped using a CNC router or laser cutter. The edge of laser cut Perspex has a pleasing polished look. If you look carefully at the edge of a piece of laser cut Perspex you can often see slight vertical lines that are caused by the pulses a laser uses when cutting.

If you want to get a perfectly smooth finish on the edge of a piece of machined Perspex a polishing technique can be used. Typical polishing techniques include diamond polishing and flame polishing.

It also possible to etch the surface of a Perspex sheet using a laser cutter. This can produce some very pleasing visual effects. The Perspex sheets have a protective film on both faces. If you are etching the material then this should be removed from the surface that is to be etched. If you are just laser cutting then this film can be left in place (if you wish) as it does not create any harmful gases when it is laser cut (unlike PVC).

More detailed information and resources on working with Perspex can be found in our resource section.

Contents:

• 1 x Perspex Sweet Pastel sheet, 3mm x 600mm x 300mm.

Available in the following Sweet Pastels palette, (With PERSPEX® Ref code):

• Raspberry Sherbet: SA 4274.
• Lemon Bon Bon: SA 2170.
• Candy Floss Blue: SA 7489.
• Spearmint Green: SA 6382.
• Orange Fizz: SA 3143.
• Coral Candy: SA 4287.
• Parma Violet: SA 7562.
• Sour Grapes: SA 7563.

Dimensions:

• Length: 600mm (nominal).
• Width: 300mm (nominal).
• Thickness: 3mm (nominal).

Tolerances:

The manufacturing tolerance for the thickness of cast Perspex acrylic sheets is the stated thickness +/-10% plus +/- 0.4mm. This means a 3mm Perspex sheet could be between 2.3mm and 3.7mm in thickness.

Resources:

• Physical properties of Perspex.
• MSDS.