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Mjölnir – Thor’s Hammer
A friend recently had a milestone birthday. I considered some gag gifts but in the end decided to go with something a little more my speed. I decided to make Thor’s Hammer, Thor being one of his favorite super heroes. I had a very small window of time to do it so I had to do most of it on the fly. I found a 3D Model of the Hammer itself online. This got me going. I knew I’d have to build a case for it but I had to have the hammer in my hand to do it.
Fizzy Lifting Soda Pop Candy Shop Sign – Part 1
Some jobs are fun from the beginning to end. My family and I were recently at a great new candy store that opened up in our town – Fizzy Lifting Soda Pop Candy Shop. The store is as great as the name and if you’re ever in Warwick, NY you have to stop in – they have every candy you can imagine and more. We had a nice conversation with the owner and wished him luck then he mentioned he was in need of a sign – so we sprung into action. They have such a great logo, a bottle cap and a fun font.
Installing trim
The routed pieces were mitered and then fastened in place. We then used sculpting epoxy to fill the holes and seams before painting. The pieces will get three coats of base color and then three layers of glaze. The hearts will be then painted pink to match the corner block trim on the rest of the house like in the background of the photo. Today the last of the trim was painted for around the circular windows and doors
Final details
We’ve created more than 200 routing files for the trim on the house and routed thousands of pieces over the last two years. In the last three weeks we’ve been working hard to finish the outside and this includes creating even more routing files and then routing a bunch more pieces. Thankfully there aren’t many areas left to do. The trim around the front and patio doors was routed yesterday and assembled today. This afternoon I created the routing files for the decorative bands around the patio posts
The face of our business
Marketing our business is an important key to success. Marketing can take many forms and the more creative marketing is the more memorable it will be. In our case we have a home based business. Our shop is three hundred and fifty feet off of the road while our house is next to the road
The importance of samples
I often get asked how we became successful in our business. The answer to that question isn’t short but if I had to answer concisely I would say the biggest reason would be the samples we display. While some of our samples are smaller copies of three-dimensional work we have done for customers, the bulk of the things you see on display are custom made – just for that purpose. I have difficulty describing what we do but showing a sample of our wonderful 3D creations work like a charm.
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Back on the bike
After more than two months out of the studio and away from the router I was back at my desk and programing some files and turned on the MultiCam once more. I quickly found out I was a little rusty with both the program and the machine. EnRoute is a wonderful program that isn’t too difficult but like many things technical it requires that one does things in a certain order, paying attention the whole way through. As usual there were lots of things going on out in the studio and out in the yard as well. I found that with my being out of practice it till a few tries to get things right