Blogs
Occasion Station
There is a second station for the train that travels around NEB’s Garden. It is called the Occasion Station. It is a fanciful and ornate creation that speaks of the formal English garden in which it rests.
Designs for NEB’s
Design work continues on the NEB’s Fun World project. It will involve many different projects including miniature golf, a train, a micro brewery and much more. Over the next weeks I’ll be doing lots of drawings. As soon as the Viking ships for Dubai are done we’ll kick into making all of the ideas come to life.
Fetch Sign Install
The old sign is down. It took about an hour and a half to get our steel bracket system installed and everything went together nicely. Best of luck Adam with your new sign – See you at Fetch! – Steve
Suffolk University – 3D Design with Precision Board
Suffolk University Students Design with Precision Board HDU Precision Board is a truly user-friendly medium for art and design. It allows even the most entry-level artists, architects, and designers to create a tangible object from just an idea and some rudimentary...
Fetch Sign – Woof 6 (the final Woof)
It’s our last day with the Fetch Sign – we are finishing up the details and doing the final assembly. All the parts are painted so Peter now has to complete the pins and glue all of the elements in place – I’ll do a little welding and we should be done. We really want to make the collar ring look as real as possible so we shaped a 4′ length of steel rod inserted into the hole in the dog tag and welded a plate on it so we could easily secure it to the structure. We ran a bolt through the top of the sign to hold it in place.
Dubai Viking ship progress
Since my last post showing the Viking ship frame we have made significant progress. The engineer required us to use heavy steel members with plenty of welding. The ship has to withstand lots of moving as we put it together, it travels to the galvanizer and also the long journey to Dubai in the middle east. To facilitate it’s removal from our (rather small) shop at to fit into the galvanizing vats it will break into six sections on each level.
Fetch Sign – Woof 5
All the parts are completed and they’re off to our paint shop. We use a PPG Waterborne Automotive Paint System which gets great results and is much less harmful to the environment. Holin, our master painter, has prepped the metal parts in our bead blaster, he then cleans them with a metal prep and they are ready for primer and paint. The foam parts are lightly sanded and we brush on a thick HDU primer.
SAMPE Long Beach 2016: Free Passes!
Get your FREE PASSES to SAMPE Long Beach 2016! Visit us at Booth O41 In less than two weeks, the Coastal Enterprises team will be setting up shop at SAMPE Long Beach 2016, to rub elbows with some of the country’s top-notch companies and individuals in the advanced...
Columbia University FSAE Team Car
Again another really fun project with our friends at the Columbia University FSAE team. What an impressive group of students! Check out their site here . We worked with the team engineers to create the molds for the cars body out of Precision Board HDU. The team then molded the carbon fiber panels. Once completed they sent us the panels for final finishing where our guys wrapped all of the parts in a black brushed metal vinyl. All of the logo and number decals were then created and installed. It really turned out great -Congratulations to the 2016 team and best of luck! Oh and thanks for the tie! – Steve