1/8" Clear Extruded Acrylic Sheet - 48" x 96"

Why Choose 1/8" Clear Acrylic at Full Sheet Size?

The 1/8" thickness represents the sweet spot for acrylic sheet applications—thick enough to provide structural integrity for professional installations while remaining easy to cut, drill, and fabricate with standard tools. This popular thickness delivers excellent rigidity for picture frames up to 36 inches, provides substantial material presence for awards and plaques, and offers the perfect balance between cost and performance for protective barriers and display applications. At approximately 24 pounds per full sheet, it's manageable for installation while providing professional-grade material thickness.

With 92% light transmission, acrylic offers noticeably superior optical clarity compared to polycarbonate, making it the preferred material when appearance matters most. The full 48" x 96" size enables large-scale fabrication projects with minimal seams—perfect for custom framing operations, display fabrication shops, and architectural installations where crystal-clear transparency is the priority. While not suitable for high-impact environments like polycarbonate, acrylic excels in indoor applications where aesthetics, clarity, and scratch resistance are more important than extreme impact protection.

This Thickness Excels When You Need:

• Exceptional optical clarity - 92% light transmission delivers crystal-clear transparency superior to polycarbonate, perfect for applications where visual quality is paramount
• Superior scratch resistance - Harder surface than polycarbonate resists scratching better in display and framing applications, maintaining appearance over time
• Glass-like aesthetics at lower cost - Provides the premium appearance of glass with lighter weight, easier fabrication, and better shatter resistance for indoor applications
• Excellent workability - Easy to cut, drill, engrave, and polish with standard tools, making it ideal for custom fabrication and DIY projects
• Proven versatility - The most commonly specified acrylic thickness across framing, display, protective barrier, and decorative applications

Trusted Manufacturing Quality

Our clear extruded acrylic sheets are manufactured by Optix®, a premium brand from Plaskolite—one of North America's leading acrylic producers. Optix® acrylic meets ASTM D4802 standards for extruded acrylic sheet, ensuring consistent quality, optical clarity, and performance. Extruded acrylic offers excellent dimensional stability and superior optical properties compared to cell-cast alternatives for most applications, making it the professional choice for high-quality results.

When to Choose 1/8" Acrylic Over Other Materials

Select 1/8" acrylic when optical clarity and aesthetics are your priorities in indoor, moderate-use applications. This is the material to choose for picture framing requiring crystal-clear transparency, awards and plaques needing a premium glass-like appearance, protective barriers in office environments without impact concerns, table top protection in homes and offices, and display applications where scratch resistance and clarity matter most. The 1/8" thickness provides excellent rigidity for these applications while remaining cost-effective and easy to work with.

For high-impact environments, outdoor installations subject to abuse, or applications requiring extreme durability, choose polycarbonate instead—it offers 250 times the impact strength of glass compared to acrylic's 17 times. However, for indoor aesthetic applications, retail displays, office partitions, and decorative uses, acrylic's superior clarity and scratch resistance make it the better choice. The 1/8" thickness handles most professional framing and display requirements while keeping costs reasonable.