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Packing up the display.
The booth showed extremely well over the last our days as about 25,000 people came by. Our display did exactly what it was designed to do and that was attract attention of all those who walked by. We handed out a lot of business cards, scanned many badges. We met so many great people in our industry! At the end of the show there is always a mad scramble to pack up the displays
Trade show setup
It’s been a very busy month of almost non-stop travel for me, with most of the trips to Trinidad as we wrap up the Skallywag Bay Adventure Park. It’s looking very cool these days. I’ll be posting some photos of that project next week on my return. This week we are attending the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions EXPO in Orlando, Florida. The trade show is massive with over 1000 vendors and 40,000 attendees from around the world.
Routing Precision Board HDU with a Techno CNC Systems Machine
Techno CNC Systems has worked with Coastal Enterprises for a long time, so we thought it would be fun to have them fabricate a sign out of Precision Board HDU. Bob Valentine put together a CAM design using both the Techno CNC Systems and Coastal Enterprises logos. ...
Why Dan Sawatzky Exclusively Uses PBLT-30 Precision Board HDU
Dan Sawatzky with Imagination Corporation has been working with Coastal Enterprises for more than ten years and uses our Precision Board PBLT-30 exclusively in their shop. The question Dan gets asked most often is why they only use 30 lb density or higher of Precision...
One two three glaze
With Christmas fast approaching it’s a great time to do up some name plaques for those you love. They make great presents and you can practice your painting and glazing techniques at the same time. I’ll show three name plaques in this post – all different colours to better demonstrate our techniques. The first is Elsie’s name plaque. We started by painting it an off white colour
Attention getting driveway sign
Janis loves chickens but there are no roosters allowed. (they tend to crow early in the morning and wake her up!) I believed we needed a rooster somewhere on the property and so I designed a fun fellow to perch on top of a sign Janis had been asking for in our yard to warn visitors to slow down as they passed through the the shop. As with all of our projects we would use a variety of mediums and methods to build it. The sign portion was done on our MultiCam of course, routed from there layers of 30 lb Precision Board.
Using EnRoute Software’s “Rapid Texture” on Signage
Are you up against the clock and need to deliver a quality sign on time and within budget? Consider using the Rapid Texture process available with EnRoute Software. Jim Dawson with Synergy Sign and Graphics recently applied this process to some 30 lb. Precision...
Monument sign start to finish – part 1
I often get asked to talk about a ‘typical sign’ and how we build them. The answer is most signs we build aren’t typical. But they do follow a pattern.
University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project – Eos II
The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project (UMNSVP) recently completed the 2017 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge using a vehicle they designed and created from start to finish. Coastal Enterprises was honored to donate Precision Board HDU to the team for use...