Blogs
The Award-Winning Lunsford Think-A-Ma-Jig Sign
2018 marks Lunsford Sign Works 27th year in business. To celebrate they decided to do a complete rebranding, including a new sign for their business. They set out to create a landmark sign that would really convey their passion for the craft and at the same time be a...
Announcing the February Instagram Contest!
February is Customer Appreciation Month here at Coastal Enterprises and to celebrate, we want to give two Precision Board HDU customers their choice of one of our companion products (primer/filler, adhesives, textures and coatings). Entries will be accepted all month...
Dan Sawatzky’s Robot Table for Coastal Enterprises ISA Booth
Coastal Enterprises, manufacturers of Precision Board HDU, is proud to announce a series of guest blogs written by Dan Sawatzky of Imagination Corporation, which will be posted on the Precision Board Blog at the end of each month. In his debut entry, Dan tells us how...
Creative Scribing’s Precision Board CNC Shop Sign
When Mike Smith with Creative Scribing needed to make a sign for the CNC department at his company, he went with 40 pound Precision Board HDU. He knew it would be easy to finish and could take the abuse of a busy area of the company. Read on to get some tips on how...
Chuck Miller Featured on Composites World Podcast
Chuck Miller, President of Coastal Enterprises, manufacturers of Precision Board HDU, was recently featured on the Composites World podcast. He discussed his background and involvement with the evolving world of composites and tooling from his time as a Manufacturing...
Doug Haffner’s Fantastic Steampunk Creations
Do you want to add some spice to your dimensional sign design, but don't have the time to create new 3d models? Doug Haffner of Haffner's Fantastic Creations has put together a library of steampunk design elements for 3D signs. He uses the design elements to...
Signing off
Back in March of 2010 I posted the very first entry to this blog. At that point I had been using Precision Board and a CNC router about four years and was still very much at the beginning of a learning adventure that continues to this day. I know that learning adventure will never end. Here’s that first post. ________________________________________________________________ In this journal it is my hope that I will be able to share with you the many ways we use Precision Board high density urethane and other products from Coastal Enterprises in our projects
Robot table sculpt done
On the last day of 2017 I spent a little more time in the shop finishing up the sculpt of the Coastal Enterprises’ robot table. This included the robot’s head, arms and hands. The fingers were sculpted in such a fashion as to hide the structure of the table top. With the integral welded steel frame inside the top and through the hands and arms this thing is plenty strong! As I was rummaging through the electrical parts drawer yesterday I came across a spare switch which I decided to include on the back of the robot. I used a couple of chain links to build a guard on each side.
Topped out
Today it was time for some more router work on the MultiCam. The upper arms were first and routed from two pieces of 1″ thick 30 lb Precision Board. I routed a slot into them to fit around the 1″ X 2″structural steel.