It is not often that opportunity knocks twice. Hurricane Sandy forced the postponement of the previously scheduled Sign Magic Workshop in Hackensack, New Jersey.
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Ready to go!
This afternoon I received word the truck would arrive first thing tomorrow morning. It was time to move the sign out onto the parking lot in readiness.
The sun shines!
Today our LED lighting arrived from Heico Lighting. The LED lights they manufacture are unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. They use a contactless technology, meaning there are no wires to hook up or solder.
Down to the short strokes (of paint)
The Sunshine Homes sign has been dominating our shop space for quite some time. We’ve walked and worked around it since fabrication began. Rebecca painted the rock work with blends of grey and back and then we added two colors of speckles to make it look like granite
Da plane! Da plane!
One of our current projects is a sign for a finish carpenter. The design requires an oversized woodworker’s plane perched on top of the sign.
Splash of color!
Since the last post about the Sunshine Homes sign we’ve made great progress. The last of the welding was finished and the diamond mesh was all tied to the frame
Fifty ways to build a relief – Part nine
Routing these two fish panels didn’t take very long.
Fifty ways to build a relief – Part Eight
I’ve been asked to include tool paths in this series of posts. I will be including feeds and speeds but it is important to remember that all machines are not created equal
Fifty ways to build a relief – Part Seven
Before we get to tool pathing I want to show how I prepare many of my piece for routing. The standard way is to tool path and route the piece and then do an offset cut to free them from the substrate. This works well but in doing so a burr, the size of the radius of the smallest tool is left around the top edge.