Blogs
Assembly in Trinidad
It’s been a busy week as I headed south from the EnRoute Summit in Salt Lake City rather than heading home. In Trinidad the work on Skallywag Bay Adventure Park is continuing, with the permanent placement of the features now beginning on a large scale. It is ratifying to be doing that job after almost four years since the project began in earnest. I was in Trinidad for four days this time and great progress was made.
Jumping the Shark: Hand-Carved Precision Board HDU
Are you wondering if Precision Board HDU can be hand-carved? Absolutely! We talked to Jim McKay who recently created a dimensional sign out of Precision Board PBLT-18 using only hand-carving tools and a dremel. Read on to see how he created the detail and depth on...
Creating a fishing boat relief
I built this little fishing boart quite some time ago but decided to revisit it when I was recently teaching a workshop. It’s a complex but not too difficult a build which is fascinating. The first time I built these reliefs I was pretty new to EnRoute and the MultiCam. That gave me an appreciation for the feelings I knew my students would have.
Enroute Summit 2017.
A couple of years back, I attended my first EnRoute workshop in Denver Colorado. I had and amazing time with some old friends and made some new friends along the way. When EnRoute announced it was holding a competition leading up to the 2017 Summit in Salt Lake City, I climbed all over it. Up for grabs were cash prizes, advertising opportunities, and free trips to the summit. I’m happy to say that we placed 1st in the Novelty category with our gear set.
Priming High Density Urethane – Did You Know?
Did you know Coastal Enterprises manufactures a water-based primer that is high in solids, which is perfect for HDU, but can also be used on wood*, metal and concrete? *Priming wood? Reduce FSC-88 with water by 25% to increase absorption and improve adhesion. FSC-88...
Buster gets a coat of paint
Im my last post about the Could Buster sign I had finished the sculpt and he was waiting for paint. As with many f our signs we started with a cot of Coastal Enterprises FSC-88 WB primer. It’s a heavy bodied water base primer that is sandal. Only our intention is not to smooth things out but instead add even more texture. This paint is the perfect ticket for that task
Assembly of the Hazelnut Inn main sign – part one
The center portion of the sign would be a giant oval but we didn’t need the whole thing as the bottom would be tucked into a themed base and the top would be in the canopy of the tree. By cutting these off we would save a lot of Precision Board, an important consideration as this portion of the sign would be a whopping fourteen inches thick. The centre oval would be a concave dome and routed from 4″ thick precision Board. Because we were cutting the top and bottom off the oval we could get both pieces out of the same sheet. We would build the reliefs in four pieces. First we created a four inch flat relief, the thickness of our board.
Hazelnut Inn main sign – part three
The center portion of the sign would be a giant oval but we didn’t need the whole thing as the bottom would be tucked into a themed base and the top would be in the canopy of the tree. By cutting these off we would save a lot of Precision Board, an important consideration as this portion of the sign would be a whopping fourteen inches thick. The centre oval would be a concave dome and routed from 4″ thick precision Board. Because we were cutting the top and bottom off the oval we could get both pieces out of the same sheet. We would build the reliefs in four pieces. First we created a four inch flat relief, the thickness of our board.
Hazelnut Inn main sign – part two
With the design for the Hazelnut Inn finally in hand we set to work in EnRoute. I had done the design using Adobe Photoshop using my iPad as an interface. I based the lettering on an actual font but modified it a fair amount. Now that needed to be done using vectors.