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Robot Designed To Leap Over Asteroids
NASA has unveiled a giant new robot known as Athlete, or All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Terrestrial Explorer. Thirteen feet tall, weighing 5,000 lbs. and boasting a payload of over 32,000 lbs, it is designed to tackle any obstacle it may encounter on the moon or an...
Darts anyone? Part two
The second part of the project was the frame that would go around the dart board. Yesterday’s project fit perfectly in the center to take full advantage of the material.
Game of darts part one, anyone?
We are still working on details at the Fox & Hounds Pub. The to-do list is slowly being whittled down to size. Today I designed and routed a whole load of small signs, NO SMOKING, MECHANICAL ROOM and such
The Ice Cream Laboratory
Mark Blackford, owner of Signcraft in Santa Maria, CA sent us some excellent in-process pictures of a sign they made for Doc Burnstein's Ice Cream Lab in Orcutt, CA. The sign was hand-carved from Precision Board Plus PBLT-15, except for the border which was cut on...
Day of rest
Today, I finished the sculpting on the Shady Rest sign. It was fun to add all the small details such as his wiggly toes, his big belly and the had pulled down low over his eyes
Time to fly!
Today, being Saturday was sort of a day off. Janis was busy with horse stuff and so I had the time to do what I wanted in the shop
Working in the dark
Yesterday, in the early afternoon, when I went up the road to get some small supplies from the local hardware store we noticed some smoke coming from a neighboring building.
A 30″ x 240′ Replica of The Hong Kong Skyline
Wolfpack Sign Group in Vista, CA is working on a very exciting project for a cultural center located in Hong Kong. Once complete, it will be 30" tall x 240' in length. Joseph Parrish, Director of Operations, explained that the customer wanted to reproduce the city...
Built to last
Then it was time to take the routered pieces of Precision Board off the MultiCam and make them into a sign. I used the center pieces of the sign as a jig to hold things nice and steady I cut short lengths of 1″ x 1″ steel tubing to length, approximating the angles by eye. The beauty of welding is that small gaps are easily remedied with a MIG welder.