Blogs
Subarctic Signage: Lunsford Signs Makes It Happen
What do you do if you're a sign maker located in the Rocky Mountains, a region that the Koppen Climate Classification system lists as having a subarctic climate, and you want to make signs that last? Heck, the signs you make aren't going to have to just stand up to a...
Texture and Gadgets
We’ve been busy but have still found some time to work a little every day on our Mechanical Fish project. While Brian is working the mechanics of the tank I’ve been adding fun little elements to the design and creating some cool textures and “mechanical” parts. Here is the control panel – We’ll be adding switched and a panic button soon. But it gives you an idea. Working lamp?
Waiting for rain but not idle
Our fall weather has been exceptionally warm and dry compared to normal. This means we are able to concentrate on outside work as much as possible. It also means the MultiCam has been quieter than normal for much of the month. But the typical rainy fall weather is now starting to happen and so we will be in the shop a lot more in the coming weeks and months.
AAA Sign Co. in Boise: From 1944 To Present
Originally opened in 1944, AAA Sign Co. in Boise, ID, has weathered the winds of time and etched its place into sign-making history. Owner Paul Ashley got his start in the sign industry during World War II painting signs and sandblasting submarines for the Navy. At...
Cal Poly Students Optimize Solar Cooking With Precision Board
A group of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Engineering and Physics students recently took part in an amazing project designed to help residents of some of the world's poorest locations cook food with solar energy. Using the Scheffler Reflector concept (a large solar...
Smooth move
Anytime we move a large piece it is always an exciting day. The day we move something this large it’s over the top! My client was handling the move so it was less stressful than usual. The load towed smooth, and at reasonable speeds it was stable and easy. The good news was we only had ten miles to go. The tight turn up the steeper hill to the lake went without incident. When we arrived at the ale it took a few minutes to hook up the zoom boom.
Building and moving a small mountain
Sometimes creating a sign involves many disciplines with the routing part only a portion. One of our current projects is just such a piece. We’ve been working on it for more than a week and the routed portion is still a week distant. It will be the primary sign for the Cultus Lake Adventure Park. The sign will be jammed into a dirt bank.
Pieces in progress
Other pieces I’ve documented in the last while are quickly getting polished off and moved out into the parking lot until they are transported up to the work site. Here’s a few shots. In the shop other pieces are ready for paint or in various stages of base colors. Stay tuned for more… -dan
Prefabrication
Although we’ve been crazy busy for the last three weeks and have accomplished much there hasn’t been time for reporting the progress here. It’s time to catch up on things a little. There will be a lot of pieces to design and route for this project, but along with that is a lot of other work which will be tied in. We are literally building a small mountain (large in my eyes) on which some of the routed work will attach. As onsite work begins we have largely been working in the shop, prefabricating as much as we can