Blogs
Cold Jet Dry Ice Cleaning of Precision Board Tools
Are you considering dry ice cleaning of a Precision Board HDU tool, but not sure if it can handle the pressure? We had Cold Jet, a pioneer in dry ice blasting and global expert on dry ice technology, dry ice blast a PBLT-70 tool coated with FSC-88 WB Primer. The...
Trotec Laser Engraving of Precision Board HDU PBLT-15
Are you wondering if Precision Board HDU can be cut with a laser-engraver? Absolutely! Our friends at Trotec Laser cut a variety of shapes out of a piece of PBLT-15 Precision Board, including our logo and a highly-detailed relief and sent us setting...
More signs at Skallywag Bay
There were a whole lot of signs which we did for Skallywag Bay in Trinidad and I’e been itching to get them installed for quite some time. During my last visit to the site we got almost all of the larger pieces placed around the site. We did it using a 60′ zoom boom which is a very handy machine. I have my forklift licence for our little machine at the shop but the larger machine was a whole new experience! The key is to go slow and easy. Every move is amplified when the boom is fully extended and to reach these pieces we did just that most of the time
One Track Mine Co – Part two
I routed three copies of the little One Track Mining Co. vehicle chassis. I’ll make three different models as per the original sketches.
Quint Creative’s Precision Board Garden Tribe Sign
When Brian Quinter of Quint Creative Signs in Ohio was contacted by the Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce to design a logo and sign for the local intermediate school, he originally quoted them a flat sign with vinyl lettering and graphics. The idea was to keep it as...
One Track Mine Co. – part one
The three little One Track Mine Co. machines are so much fun I decided to build them first as some sample models. As I designed the routing reliefs I made some modifications to make them better.
Sign Builder Illustrated: Mixed Media HDU Signage
If you're curious about using Precision Board high-density urethane for signage, the November issue of Sign Builder Illustrated has a great article featuring Kevin Pirok of Pirok Design in Illinois. HDU’s very low expansion and contraction rate has allowed Pirok to...
Piece by pieceS
It is pure magic as we install the scores of features at Skallywag Bay in Trinidad. It’s been four years since we started building the fourteen shipping containers full of features. We packed the last of them into the containers more than two years ago. Now at last it is time to install everything. Today was the day to assemble two of the attraction signs.
One track mine concepts…
Last month I did a step by step of building a little display tank. It was a fun little project! Now i looks like we may just get to build a series of tracked features which use some of those ideas. A client has asked us to come up with some ideas for a mining theme adventure golf. Our first concept was pretty conventional, being a narrow gauge mining railroad car