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Mechanical fish is COMPLETE!
As soon as my regular work was done I rewarded myself by packing the heavy mechanical fish sign into my office and placed it in it’s permanent home on the bookshelf next to my desk. A few minutes with a small brush polished off the last of the painted details and I declared the fish officially DONE. It’s been almost three months since I did the first sketches on the plane home from Indiana. I worked on the mechanical fish between other projects, seldom more than an hour or two at most in any sitting and instead of having my helpers assist did everything with my own hands – a rarity. Although I am sure I might do some things a little differently the next time I am very pleased with the piece.
It’s Alive! Bringing A Product To Market, The Cal Poly SLO Way
Most products on the market today start on the drawing board, but what happens to them next? The next step is usually to create a visual prototype in order for interested parties to evaluate what they are buying or investing in. Which brings us to Dr. Sarah Harding's...
Decrease Finishing Time For HDU with 30lb. Precision Board
Sandblasted 30lb! Playing the role of a creative vanguard, Adam Mooney at Vamp Graphics sent us pictures of a sign he made by sandblasting Precision Board Plus PBLT-30. According to Adam, he enjoyed working with Precision Board PBLT-30 because "it carves and blasts...
All done – except for…
With the sculpting now all done it was down to paint and small details. It wouldn’t take long. I spent about an hour putting on the rest of the base coats on the rocks. Then it was down to the final glazes.
Saturday morning fishing time
This morning I spent some relaxing time doing the last of the sculpting on the mechanical fish. I also did some more painting of the base coats. The fish is looking pretty good now.
Lock it up
One of the early signs I did just after getting my router was a giant padlock for the lockers at a mini golf at Mall of America.The sign was to mount to a wall. I decided to weld the bracket right into the interior structure. The padlock shackle was a 2″ pipe bent into a ‘U’. It would be plenty strong to be sure. The sign faces were routed in layers from 30 lb Precision Board. I then glued them up with the steel frame in the middle using
Rage For The Machine: The Mother of all CNC Machines
Phoenix Technology Works houses one of the biggest CNC machines in the industry - a CMS Poseidon Moving Bridge capable of machining parts up to 65 feet long, 20 feet wide and ten feet tall without reindexing. Phoenix's Poseidon is certified for accuracy to within +/-...
The Texture Makes The Difference!
Make a world of difference to your sign with the addition of a little texture. Carol Kaufman, owner of Watseka Sign's, is a fan of both our PB Resin and TSF-45 textures, and uses them frequently on anything from signs to windmill blades to tail vanes. Carol was nice...
LOTS of signs (and other stuff) in our future!
In the last few weeks I have run the MultiCam only a little for I have instead been busy at the design table working up the ideas for a large project that will keep us busy into next summer. It’s a small theme park called Cultus Lake Adventure Park. I’ll be showing lots of progress here of course in the next months but for now I’d love to show some of the sign designs I am working on. Everything will be dimensional of course and our role will be to create all of the signs and the surrounding environments as well. So here’s a sneak peek at some of the sign concept designs for the rides and attractions..