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Old and new blended seamlessly
I love to blend old fashioned, hand crafted ways with the modern tools. Digital tablets, virtual sculpting with a modern computer program, file building with EnRoute, and the CNC router of course are blended with hand sculpting, carving and painting to create our art pieces. In the last two days I used a wide variety of tools.
Shout it out!
We needed one more sign for a key area in the Fox and Hounds Pub. The sign wouldn’t be large, measuring about 30 inches tall at most but it needed to shout out.
Human Powered Vehicle Challenge
George Leone, Student Project Facilitator at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA, recently sent us pictures of a project that students from the Human Powered Vehicle Club designed for the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge. The human powered vehicles have been known to...
Wavy banner
The ballon will be ‘towing’ a wavy banner that has our name on it. This is advertising after all. I decided it would wave both vertically and horizontally for maximum effect
Up, up and away!
I assembled the nose cones with screws and PB Bond 240 – a one part glue from Coastal Enterprises.
Lean Manufacturing – Maximize Value, Minimize Waste
The Lean Enterprise Institute defines lean manufacturing as a process designed to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Or, to create more value for customers with fewer resources. A lean company understands customer value, and focuses its key processes to...
Nose cone
For the nose cones of the ballon I decided to use the 3 axis part of the router. It was a quicker way of doing things in this case. I first measured up the balloon to determine the angle and size of the nose cone, then began building the file in EnRoute.
Quilted balloon on 4 axis router
On Friday it was time to put our first real project on the four axis MultiCam and give it a whirl. IT would be the hot air balloon
Featured Customers: Sign
Have Your Company Featured in Sign Making News 2012 at Coastal Enterprises has started out with a bang - right where 2011 left off! We sincerely thank you for your support, feedback, and business. We know we’re successful because you are, so we’d like to give back...