The two signs are being worked on simultaneously with progress being about equal. Similar but not the same, I’ll let the client choose the one they want and I’ll hand the other in our showroom as a sample to encourage future sales of this kind of sign. The paint started with Coastal Enterprises heavy bodied primer FSC-88 WB
Structure is critical in our work. Structure comes in many forms starting with the substrates we choose. In our shop I like to use 30 or 40 lb Precision board exclusively while most shops stick with the less expensive 15-20lb HDU
Today’s project was a simple one but it shows an EnRoute tool I use a lot these days. The tool is the revolve tool.
Today was one of those days where I jumped all over the place.
I love to blend old fashioned, hand crafted ways with the modern tools. Digital tablets, virtual sculpting with a modern computer program, file building with EnRoute, and the CNC router of course are blended with hand sculpting, carving and painting to create our art pieces. In the last two days I used a wide variety of tools.
We needed one more sign for a key area in the Fox and Hounds Pub. The sign wouldn’t be large, measuring about 30 inches tall at most but it needed to shout out.
The ballon will be ‘towing’ a wavy banner that has our name on it. This is advertising after all. I decided it would wave both vertically and horizontally for maximum effect
I assembled the nose cones with screws and PB Bond 240 – a one part glue from Coastal Enterprises.
For the nose cones of the ballon I decided to use the 3 axis part of the router. It was a quicker way of doing things in this case. I first measured up the balloon to determine the angle and size of the nose cone, then began building the file in EnRoute.