Never Stop Learning!

This past week was a great week here at Synergy. I travelled to East Texas, PA to visit Smooth-On with my friends Derek & Sarah. We spent two days learning casting and mold making techniques with their products. Some of these new skills will undoubtedly end up in our signs.

It is amazing to see how to accomplish the same thing from many different angles. You remember the told saying “There is more than one way to skin a cat”. While I don’t advocate killing your pet cat, I do plan on learning every way to “skin” one.

Here are some awesome samples we were shown at the seminar.

class pic

Another thing I was able to accomplish while at Smooth-On was to demo their wide range of epoxy clays. They have thick, thin, light-weight, and fire proof iterations of the product. We have been looking for a replacement for our current clay for a long time, and this stuff looks very promising.

While I don’t think you will see me on Face-Off anytime soon, the visit to Smooth-On was well worth the trip! I can’t wait to share what we create with all of you!

-Jim

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Head back to Las Vegas

Every year right around this time, the International Sign Show rolls around. This year it is in Las Vegas and I’m on my way there as we speak. Usually, I’m looking for new equipment and demonstrations, but this year is a little different. We’ll be hanging out in the Coastal Enterprises booth answering questions about our signs that have been getting a lot of attention. We also have meetings scheduled with quite a few of our vendors including Laird Plastics, Multicam, and Onsrud.

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Head back to Las Vegas

The New Multicam CNC Router is installed!

Towards the end of 2014, it had become abundantly clear to us that we had outgrown our Multicam 1000 series router. While it was a great machine that worked well for us for the last 6 years, we were asking a little too much of it with the demands of our 3D carvings. Now, don’t get me wrong, it worked flawlessly on the Teal project, Kc’s, and the FSRC sign, but we were looking for a little more speed and the ability to run 40hr CNC programs if we needed. After talking to Robert and Denis at Multicam Great Lakes, we decided to order a new machine. The machine arrived in late December and we spent the last 3 weeks running electrical, air, and dust collection lines

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The Victorian Suite. Installed

The owners of the Victorian Suite sent us final install pics over the weekend. We would like to share them with you. This project was an example of what we can do on a tight budget. The client elected to install the project himself so that could save on install costs

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The Victorian Suite. Installed

Factory Street Pub and Grill. Part 1

Here it is. Factory Street Pub and Grill. This will be the first post in a series on how we fabricate signs here at Synergy. We’ll be walking you through the shop designs, welding, carving, lighting, painting, and install on this project. We took this design in front of a historical district review panel yesterday and everyone was floored

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Factory Street Pub and Grill. Part 1