Blogs
Cultus Lake Adventure Park
Work has begun in earnest on the Cultus Lake Adventure Park project. One of the areas is a kids play area called Wilderness Trails. One of five projects started was this sign. To create the name I first drew it quickly in my sketchbook. Because the park is aimed at young kids I used upper and lower case letters and made it as readable as possible. I then hand vectorized the drawing in a few minutes. I then imported the vectors into EnRoute and began building the sign file
HEARTS! Everywhere.
We are wrapping up the routing on the house project for the season as we move on to begin the major customer project that will take us into NEXT summer. The crew is split right now with half finishing up the work on the house and the other half busy on the new. My job is to juggle and organize everyone, plus the final planning for the big project plus the preliminary planning for the next after that. I’m also trying to squeeze in as much physical work as I can as well. Half the shop is stacked with almost completed trim in the final stages of paint.
3D Sign-Making DVD: Watch 18 Signs Come To Life
Dayna Reed, owner of Sign Art Signs in Hood River, OR, has been making signs for over 30 years and recently released a signmaking DVD in collaboration with SignCraft Magazine, "More Super Cool 3D Signs." Dayna is a huge fan of Precision Board HDU and after telling us...
Custom Fish Tank Project – Complete
It took a while but we are done. Please take a look and pass it along if you can. We’d love to get some good exposure on this. thanks! Here is a link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQ-XdlZOo8&feature=share&list=UUY3edmyg6-50AXSGj9P_oUw
Completing the Structure – Mechanical Fish Project
All the welding is done. The leveling feet are on and the steel structure is now complete and painted. All I have to do is cut the acrylic tray for the top tank and we are done with stage 1! For the base of the top tank we used 2″ acrylic – overkill maybe – really cool custom acrylic fish tank tray – definitely! I designed the cut in Enroute Pro then sent it down to the Multicam to do all the work. We screwed some MDF to the table to keep this block in place. 1/2 an hour later – a perfect cut came off the table! Perfect fit! A quick leveling and we are looking good. Onto the next stage!
Flow Waterjet & 40lb. Precision Board
Check out this video of Precision Board PBLT-40 cut on a Flow Waterjet with UltraPierce Technology! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9766eX_eiMk Waterjet is a Flow Mach 4 4020C machine equipped with Dynamic Waterjet XD and UltraPierce Vacuum Assist technology, cutting...
Retro Eveline
I’ve always loved the retro, streamlined, modern scripts on old cars and fridges which inspired my choice of lettering for Eveline’s name plaque. I decided it needed to be in a simple oval with a textured background. The vectors were created in EnRoute.
Philip – number one
Philip’s name tag was back to basics, a relatively simple 3D build. I started with the vectors – all built in EnRoute and used the offset drawing tool to create the plaque edge and letter borders. The plaque shape is a combination of a rectangle and circle shapes.
New Sign & Tooling Blogs Added To Our Website
In the interest of furthering knowledge in the sign and tooling industries, Coastal Enterprises is proud to announce the addition of 2 new blogs to our website. Please welcome the writings of: KDF Custom Graphics School Street Design Company Based ½ hour outside of...