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Looking forward to a great year!
As the New Year rolls in we like to look back at what we’ve done and also to the future, hoping we can do things even better. This blog is the same. I look forward to hearing comments and suggestions from our readers.
Where to put all these pens?
The nice thing about having a 3D printer is that as you think of things to make your life a little easier you can just print them! I’ve had it with pens, pencils and my stylus rolling all round my desk – so I just printed myself a handy little pen holder. What do you need printed? – Steve
Lots of sculpting to finish off routed signs
The MultiCam has been idle for a few days as we did all the other work required to catch up to what has been routed. The golf sign (with the ship’s wheel got it’s hand sculpted wheel. Angie got the nod for that task and did a great job! We also started applying the sculpted concrete to the tree and will finish that tomorrow.
Awesome new signage for Park Street Pizza!
Park Street Pizza is a GO! Rocky has done some amazing work on his building, so it’s time to finish it all off with some cool new signage. Over the next 4-5 weeks, you’ll see various new signs popping up. We’ll be making a one of a kind entry sign, a new logo sign for the end of the building, and we’ll be following that up with a gorgeous new road sign. For this project we’ll be utilizing tons of cool products. Modern Masters paints , Precision Board , real cedar posts and planking, and tons of carving on our Multicam 3000 series Router.
Mass production
It’s not often we do multiples of any sign but the golf and park require a whole bunch of these signs – twenty eight in all. Like the rest of the signs in the park they will be dimensional. The fourteen entrance and exit signs were cleaned up with a die grinder and then the edges received their edge grains using the same tool.
Imaginarium sign done
Once the gears and the background of the sign received multiple coats of paint it was a simple matter of drilling the center of the gears and then gluing them in place using some short dowels to center them. Then I popped the lid on using a little epoxy to hold everything securely in place. Once the glue had dried I used the die grinder to even out the edges and add a teeny bit of texture to the top as well.
Way finding signs
To provide a seamless experience for the guests of the park most of the signs will be dimensional. This includes some normally mundane entrance and exit signs for the rides and attractions. The ‘sandblasted wood’ signs will have raised, prismatic letters in a cartoon font that matches the park logo. As always it starts with the vectors. I used the outlines of the sign to create a flat relief
Two more signs done
The ride signs have taken a while to finish as they were worked on between other projects. Today the Pieces of Eight and Crow’s Nest signs got their finishing touches at last. Two more pieces are not ready to load into the containers and send on their way to Trinidad. There containers full of pieces were sent in the last week with enough pieces now ready to fill there more in January.
First paint
It’s not very often we paint our signs in pieces and then assemble afterwards. Most often, especially for outdoor projects I like to route in as few pieces as possible and then securely glue and fasten together before the painting process began. In this case the piece will be displayed indoors. Compared to most pieces we build this one is fragile