A few more details

Today was another day at the Fox and Hounds. We tidied up a few more details. The contractor had painted the cooler door edges and surrounding trim from bright white to dark brown. It looked pretty good!
We hung the hostess sign in the entry. I had done a few modifications from the original design. 
We also pulled down a bunch of the direction and rule signs through the pub and brightened up the raised lettering, making them more readable in the dim light of the pub. 
I double checked some measurements for one last routing project for the inside of the pub. I’ll be creating an overlay panel for the back door that will be similar to the one I did for the cooler door.
Stay tuned…
-dan

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The color starts

With the carving and sculpting now done it is time to kick off the painting process. First the usual coat of FSC 88-WB primer from Coastal Enterprises. This smoothes things out a little and also is used to apply a subtle texture to the lettering by using a small brush on those areas. We set up a shop fan for a few hours to suck out the moisture. Then it was time to apply the first coat of acrylic paint. The post got an even coat of light brown acrylic house paint. It will be allowed to dry overnight and then it will get a second coat.
The sign was the second area to get some color. I started with a medium metallic grey for a base color. the sign background will darken up to almost black before we are done, but some cool highlights will shine through to give the sign sone sparkle. The 23K gold and bits of color will give this sign a lot of class. The same dark grey with black glazes will adorn the ‘sandblasted’ areas of the sign post but they won’t be applied until after the glazes on the rest of the post are done.
Stay tuned for more progress…
-dan

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Reaching around the world!

It never ceases to amaze me that people from literally around the world take the time to follow our blog regularly. Most who follow the blog are fellow professionals, who desire to learn about how we do things in our shop. I get lots of emails from these folks which often include pictures of projects they have done, inspired by what they have seen on our website. It is kind of cool to know that we have provided some inspiration to people so far away, to people I have never met. The internet is an amazing thing!
Today I recieved an email from Konstantin, who owns Domino Art in Dnipropetrovs’ka oblast’  which is a province in the Ukraine. His email was short with the words  ‘Due to your ideas…’  The email also contained some wonderful pictures of some very imaginative work. His email suggesting we helped inspire the work was gratifying. 
Thanks for taking the time to contact me Konstantine! And keep up the wonderful work!  Their website is at www.domino-art.com.ua
-dan

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Sign Magic Workshop almost here!

The last couple days have been frantic with many meetings and lots of organizing. I haven’t had much time to create routing files. The beauty of having a MultiCam is I can easily keep it busy while I do other things. It can work all by itself(as long as I fed it the right instructions)
The next Sign Magic Workshop is just over two weeks away. So the CNC is kept busy cranking out textured letter panels for our guests to practice their painting and glazing techniques. Custom name tags for each guest will be the next task. I’ll be doing step by steps on a few of those files in the next days. 
Stay tuned…
-dan

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Router Bit Search Guide – Improve your RPM and Feed Rates

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