Wright Family Farm Sign

We were very excited about this sign. Our friends at the Wright Family Farm in Warwick, NY needed to replace an old sign on the main road in front of the farm. This farm has been around for over 100 years so we felt very privileged to be involved.

So we stepped in to help with the task by creating a new design that would incorporate everything they had to offer. Nanette jumped on the design and came up with a wonderful sign design that everyone was extremely happy with.  Now we have to make it….

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We had to come up with a way to get the background detail in while keeping the sign dimensional. It was very important to make it really stand out for people driving by. We decided to UV print the details of the back to dibond then mount dimensional letters to the face.

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Peter takes the 2D artwork and converts to 3D in Enroute Pro. Then we are ready to carve the rest of the sign in two parts. we then glue them together with the hangers installed.

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Off to the paint room where Holin will paint the sign with a  latex a enamel.

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A little bit of assembly and we’re ready to deliver.

Best of Luck with your new sign!

– Steve

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2 Branches down. 3 to go.

This week, we will have finished the 3rd branch of the Dover Phila Credit Union Sign project. We were contracted to update all of the signage at their 5 branches. Saturday we will finish our 3rd branch and wrap the final two up in the next two weeks.

It has been a huge and challenging project, but also very satisfying. We finally had a chance to make more acrylic push through letters on this one. I think they turned out great!

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In the coming weeks, I’ll be posting a collage of all of the units we replaced.

-Jim

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Bottle cap

I was asked just how I might create a bottle cap in EnRoute. While I suppose there are many ways to go about it here’s my method.

First, depending on how accurate you wish to be you would need to measure a bottle cap to get the proportions. I didn’t have a bottle cap handy and so I just guessed for this demonstration piece. I opened the star tool and defined my vector shape as having twenty corners. Now as I look at the menu I see a bulge function which would have saved me some of the next steps… but no matter. If I were using that I suspect it would have taken a negative number to get what I wanted. I did it by hand a couple of steps down.

I then drew a circle and entered it in my faceted shape.

I modified the faceted vector using the point editing tool

I then used the round shape to create a hero height relief.

I then Chamfered to centreline using a shape I had drawn. This created the tapered edge disk with rounded top edges.

 I then used my bevel tool (with an angle of 80 degrees) with limit to height to build the crimped edges of the bottle cap. This was done as a separate relief.

As a last step in modifying the relief I used the dome tool to add a slight roundness to the top of the cap.

I them merged the two reliefs together using the merge highest function. I merged the round shape to the crimped edge shape.

Although my demonstration piece wasn’t quite to scale it shows how I would tackle a piece like this.

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Feeling crabby!

Peter had first dibs on the sculpting of the crab submarine but he was called away to do other things. With the deadline quickly approaching that meant the fun job fell to me. I wasted no time in getting busy! I was feeling crabby!

Peter had done a little work and set the direction of the project. So I mixed up a little sculpting epoxy and got to work. I’ve learned to build a stable shell and structure initially. Once that sets I’ll begin the detail, tomorrow. Temporary stands kept everything in line until it sets. Imagine this thing at full size! It will be a little over seven feet tall and about twelve feet long! The kids are going to love climbing inside!

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Sign Shop Sign

Our good friend Robin from Foley Sign Shop in Orangeburg, NY was in the market for an oversized dimensional sign at her great new location. We were happy to work with her on it and had a little fun with her great logo.

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The bed on our Multicam 3000 is 4’x8′ – the sign will be 5’x8′ so we are going to have to piece it together. We are cutting the Palette out of 2″ 15# Precision Board HDU and the letters out of 1.5″ 30# Precision Board HDU.

To lighten the sign we hog out some material.

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Once We’ve assembled the palette we cut the letters and other elements. The Foley text is cut from PVC which we’ll pin mount floating off the surface of the palette.

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We test all the parts and we have a perfect fit! Time for paint.

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I guess this is the view from the sign face….

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One more coat of color, some details and gloss coats to go!

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John got it installed in no time.

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Good luck with your new sign Robin!

– Steve

 

 

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