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Tomorrow I'm gonna be installing a small 3' x' 3' 1/2" MDO menu sign on a flat wall. Inside. The sign also has a few cutouts and shapes glued on to it. I would like the sign to be off the wall about maybe 1/4" to 1/2" off the wall. I don't want any hardware showing. Thus the term "Floating Sign". Any sugesstions?
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If you mounted a clear plate to the wall that is smaller than the sign, then you could use double faced foam tape and not have any mounting hardware visible.
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The commonest spacer is 2x4s, which have your sign 1½" off the wall. If you're going into a frame wall where you have to find studs, the 2x4s give some freedom in where to mount the sign. And they're thick enough to take Tapcon screws plus the mounting screws, if you're on concrete or brick. You didn't say what kind of wall.
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, but I am assuming that you are using woodscrews to secure it to the wall? 
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