Back in November of last year we installed the lighthouse sign at the edge of the bumper boat pool. Here’s the POST that covered that part of the project. The weather was turning cold and we had to put off the concrete work around the base until the weather warmed up in spring. We had plenty to do on the (larger) project until then.
The next routing file I am creating is for the Cookies kitchen. It will be attached to the menu board inside. For those who take a good look at Cookie outside they will see he sports a egg beater instead of a hook on his missing hand. The joke is he has a whole selection of other implements handy for when he needs them.
Between working long hours onsite in our current project during the working days and spending evenings and weekends planning the next large project the MultiCam has been idle of late. That of course will change soon as we begin work on the house once again, do all of the remaining smaller signs for our current project and then begin work on the next project right after. I did the last of the concept art for the Trinidad project last night. Now the construction and engineering drawings are underway. Thankfully they are being done by others although I have a lot of input along the way.
I spent the last two days in meetings with engineers and planners working on the final plans for Skallywag Bay Adventure Park. The project is proceeding and will move from the concept stage through the detailed planning. Today’s talk was of the infrastructure and buildings which we will then apply our magic to – when they are done.
As we come into the home stretch on the urgent large project I am also full blast into the final designs for the next project due to start as soon as this one is done. The next will be a fun one with all kinds of full blast dimensional signs of course. Here’s a sneak peek at a few of the designs coming off the design table… As much fun as the current project is I do believe the next will be a teeny bit better yet – as it should be.
The Pelton water whee isn’t a project we routed, nor was it made of Precision board but I thought the readers of this bog might like to see how such a project goes together. The same engineering and figuring that go into this piece apply to many of our other (sometimes) complex projects. We had all of the pieces for the Pelton water wheel ready to go but no instructions how to put them together.
EnRoute is a powerful routing program without a doubt. I can create some pretty cool routing files using it but it is also handy for so much more. When I need to create a plan view of something to scale it is the CAD program I turn to.
Once the routing was done I glued and clamped all of the layers together using PB Bond 240 glue from Coastal Enterprises. It tends to squeeze out a little on the edges of the seams but that was no problem. I like to use an air powered die grinder to take off the glue and add a little random texture while I’m at it.
The pedal power sign is a good size and since I routed it with a 1/8″ ball nose bit with an 80% overlap the two sides took about eight hours each to do. The pieces were cut from 1.5″ thick 30 lb Precision Board. They turned out great! Tomorrow I’ll cut the three half inch thick inner layers and then we’ll be ready to start the final assembly. Stay tuned for more… -dan