Precision Board Spring/Easter Challenge

Spring is here! Easter is approaching (Congratulations East-Coast you made it!) and we’re challenging you to show off your best Spring/Easter themed display designed from Precision Board Plus.

Top 3 winners will be given a FREE Companion Product Sampler Package.

Post your creations to Facebook or Twitter using #easterwithprecisionboard

Winners will be announced Friday, April 10^th2015 at 11:00 AM PST.

How about some life-sized Jelly Beans in your Easter-basket this year!

Artist, sculptor and film director Cosimo Cavallaro created these delicious Jellybeans in. You can read more about his creation here.

Instant old tiki

The MultiCam CNC router is a wonderful tool. It works fast and accurate every time. But every once in a while it is fun to do a project the old fashioned way. The good people at Coastal Enterprises are to have a booth at the International Sign Association show in Las Vegas. I offered to whip them up a little sample for their display.

The sample piece had to demonstrate the qualities of Precision Board. It’s easy to work, holds detail well and when painted can resemble whatever we imagine.

I chose a TIKI as the subject – just for fun. I decided to do the piece by hand to demonstrate it’s ease of use. I drew some quick guidelines on the block of 40lb Precision Board, then fired up my air powered die grinder. It took less than an hour to carve the block into the rough shape.

Another half hour with the grinder filled in the detail. The next stage was a coat of FSC-88 WB primer. I used a small brush and purposely added just a little more texture.

When the primer was dry it was time for three coats of the base color.

Once the base colors were good and dry it was time for some fancy magic. The glazes were started with a warm orange/brown. I slathered it on and then wiped it off judiciously.

Then it was time for a red/brown. This time I wiped it off just a little harder leaving the darker color in the cracks to show off the texture to it’s maximum advantage. The tiki was already looking pretty fine.

I then used some green, red and white paint to add in the color needed to bring it to life. Some missed spots and brush strokes were purposely left in place.

The last step was to add a dark glaze. It instantly added character and age to the piece.

Published with permission from precisionboard.blogspot.com. Source.

Customize it!

A couple of weeks ago we showed off our ability to manufacture large custom bonded blocks.

This week we would like to show you just how versatile those shapes and sizes can be. Using the easy-to-machine PBLT-10 we custom bonded and cut precise dimensions that the customer requested.

With Precision Board Plus anything is possible!

Save time, save money, save a tree. Choose Precision Board Plus. Why? Because… we can produce any shape, size, or thickness needed to get the job done quickly and with ease.

Wouldn’t it be great to receive a tooling block completely ready to machine?

We are here for YOU!

ISA is almost here…

We all know that Dan Sawatzky is a talented man that loves his Multicam CNC, Enroute software and Precision Board Plus PBLT-30.

But this time, he took a different approach to a sculpture he made for our booth which will be displayed at the ISA show April 9th, 10th and 11th.

Dan told us that he dug around in his Precision Board “stash” and found a solid piece of PBLT-40 (what… not PBLT-30?!) “It begged to be a Tiki. So I obliged.” He not only used a different density than what he favors, but he also carved this 5″ x 5″ x 22″ sculpture by hand. Watch it come to life on Dan’s blog .

When visiting ISA 2015 next month, stop by and see us at booth #5971.

Want to see Dan? He’ll be at booth # 712 with Multicam. Stay for a while to watch his presentation as PBLT-30 is happily being routed.

Don’t forget your free ISA passes!

Packing for the ISA take show

I’m really looking forward to attending the International Sign Association show in Las Vegas in less than two weeks. I’ll be at the MultiCam booth # 712 on the showroom floor. I look forward to meeting a lot of people and sharing my passion for creating dimensional signs.

Today in preparation for the show I began packing. My personal suitcase has to wait a little while yet but it is time to get the show pieces down south so we built a giant crate for each piece. It took eighteen sheets of plywood to fabricate the sturdy crates and they weighed in at almost 2000 lbs in total when they were all loaded.

See you soon in Las Vegas!