Rustic Sign – The Catskill Mountain Storehouse

 

We just had the pleasure of working with Tim Luby at the Catskill Mountain Storehouse  for their new retail location.

They wanted a simple sign that had a rustic “trail” feel. So we set out to get it done.

We cut it out of 18lb Precision Board HDU on our MultiCam 3000 CNC. We’ve cut two panels that we’ll glue together. We’ve applied a wood texture and left the letters of the sign raised.

745Once done cutting we glued the panels together then primed the sign with precision boards FSC-88 Primer. We then mixed up some latex paint and painted the brown wood color with several glazes of a darker brown.  The letters got their yellow paint.

Here we printed the clients logo to 3mm dibond on our Oce’ Arizona flatbed printer – then glued in place.

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Fizzy Lifting Soda Pop Candy Shop Sign – Part 4

All done and ready to install.  What a fun sign to make – We hope this draws in people from far and wide to stop into this great shop. photo 1 John is on the street! After shoring up the existing sign bracket and doing some spot painting on the new steel he’s ready to hang the sign.139 142 146 All done!
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Good Luck Adam and the gang – We wish you the best with the new store!

Oh and can you stock Reggie Bars?

 

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Fizzy Lifting Soda Pop Candy Shop Sign – Part 3

We are getting close. Brian’s been welding, building and painting away. Now that he has all the letters done he’s moved on to the sign faces. these will be a bright red and will really stand out at this little corner shop.

He started by welding the inside frame of the sign.  This will make it incredibly strong.

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IMG_4104Now back to the sign faces. Using our Matthews Paint system Brian matches the clients red and preps the paint guns. IMG_4107Several coats of color are put down to get a real nice, and strong, finish.

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Ready to clear coat and assemble!

 

 

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Fizzy Lifting Soda Pop Candy Shop Sign – Part 2

We’re ready for paint.

Its time for Brian to work his magic. He’ll start with the letters then set them aside once complete to work on the sign panels.photo 1Once the letters are primed he lays down the PMS matched color. He’s using a Matthews Paint System.

photo 3 Using an airbrush technique, Brian lowers the pressure on the gun to stipple paint the letters to match the logo design.photo 6Here is the final logo before we attach it to the sign face.photo 7

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Mjölnir – Thor’s Hammer

A friend recently had a milestone birthday.  I considered some gag gifts but in the end decided to go with something a little more my speed.  I decided to make Thor’s Hammer, Thor being one of his favorite super heroes.

I had a very small window of time to do it so I had to do most of it on the fly.

I found a 3D Model of the Hammer itself online.   This got me going. I knew I’d have to build a case for it but I had to have the hammer in my hand to do it. I cut each side of the hammer out of 4″ 15lb Precision Board HDU. then glued and screwed them together.387

389407408Once the hammer was completed  I designed the box to put it in out of MDF. Once I had my dimensions I programmed the back panel and face of the box in Enroute Pro with a texture.  This will be important later when I paint it.

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410 411I cut two small cleats to hang the hammer on.     412

413All assembled and ready for paint. 418

Because I cut the face and back panel with a texture we’ll have a lot of the work done for us when we start painting. First all the parts are primed, two coats, with Precision Board FSC-88 Primer.

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We used Modern Masters Metallic Paints. We love these paints! We start with a solid coat of the paint then come back with a glaze of darker color for the aged look.

438 440 442 446As an added little detail I inserted magnets into the cleats and draped a metal chain across to hold the hammer in place.450451

I cut some foam blocks and covered them with a red velvet material using double sided tape to keep it in place.455For the engraved panel on the front of the case I engraved brushed aluminum then painted it black. A little sanding afterwards gave me a nice look. 459And here it is!460

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