Special Thanks to all of our new Partners and Sponsors.

We signed on with another Partner today. Modern Masters has been gracious enough to supply us all of the paints for our upcoming gear projects. We will be building 2 gears for Multicam and 1 gear for Coastal Enterprises . All three gears will be getting painted with Modern Masters Metallics and reactive paints. Modern Masters will also be featuring us in their ad materials throughout the coming year, so keep an eye out for us! We would like to send out a formal thanks to Robert and Denis @ Multicam, Greg @ Modern Masters, and Kellie @ Coastal Enterprises for acknowledging our work and helping us raise the bar in the sign industry

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Special Thanks to all of our new Partners and Sponsors.

KC’s Car Care – Redux – ( and some big news )

From time to time, we may miss the mark a little. In this case, we had an idea that the car and bike should be the same scale. Once the bike was applied, the customer didn’t like the size of it.

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KC’s Car Care – Redux – ( and some big news )

Sculpting A Flatbed With Dan Sawatzky

Signcraft Magazine recently published an excellent article featuring a special truck Dan Sawatzky made for us to display at ISA 2013. Made from PBLT-30, the truck was a big hit, and was what we used to display the free Precision Board Plus HDU samples for attendees to evaluate.

Take a look at the Signcraft feature/breakdown here.

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Dan Sawatzky's Imagination Corporation

Perhaps one of the most innovative forces in the signage industry today, Dan Sawatzky and his Imagination Corporation are a household name among many sign makers. Dan has been a friend of Coastal for many years and is a huge fan of Precision Board Plus, especially the higher densities such as PBLT-30 and PBLT-40.

Kellie Miller, our Customer Relations Manager has been friends with Dan since the late 90’s after meeting at Rick Glawson’s Letterhead meet. Dan was interested in incorporating HDU into some of his creations, and proceeded to test out different brands, with Precision Board Plus emerging as the winner.

Since then, Dan has used Precision Board Plus HDU exclusively and has won many awards for his work. One of the coolest things about Dan is also his willingness to help and teach others. This is evident in the sign and sculpting workshops he holds at his shop in Chilliwack, BC Canada. In addition to Precision Board Plus HDU, Dan also uses FSC-88WB Primer/Filler, PB Bond-240, and Abracadabra Sculpt.

Besides signs, he is also heavily involved in interior and exterior architectural theming and readily incorporates Precision Board Plus into his themed environments. Dan routes most of his projects on his MultiCam 3000 Series 4-axis CNC router using  software.

His blog is updated frequently and has extremely detailed tips on how he makes the magic happen with his signs, sculptures and themed environments. We host it on our website in addition to this one, so if you have a second, be sure to check it out!

****Update: Dan Sawatzky’s next Sign Magic workshop will be held this November 6 – 8 in Hackensack, NJ. Full information available here.

Here is some of the award winning work done made by Dan:

2012 International Competition – Signs of the Times

Fox and Hounds Pub – Second Place in the Sign Systems category

 

2011 International Competition – Signs of the Times

First Place – Commercial Sign Systems – MultiCam Western Canada

 Second Place – Commercial Monument Signs – Dhillon Farms

 Third Place – Commercial Building Signs – Shmyer’s Harbor Sign

2010 Sign Media – Canadian National Competition

Best in Show & Winner – Unique Signs – Sextant

Dual Nature HDU Sculpture is in the ArtPrize Competition!

If you are anywhere near the Grand Rapids, MI area between now and October 2nd be sure to stop by the local ArtPrize Competition and vote for the “Dual Nature” Precision Board Plus PBLT-15 sculpture by our friends Cecilia Lueza and Rick Munne!

ArtPrize is the worlds largest art competition. Anyone over the age of 18 can be involved, and hundreds of thousands of dollars are given away in prizes, with the first place winner receiving $200,000! Categories consist of two-dimensional, 3-dimensional, use of urban space, time/performance and sustainability. See the history of this competition here.

Be sure to check back on our blog to see how Dual Nature did! You can subscribe to our bi-weekly blog via Facebook or Twitter.

Check out the full story of this sculpture’s history on our original blog: PBLT-15 Sculpture – Dual Nature.

You can also see Cecilia’s homepage here.