For a friend, by a friend. Carved on my router, Corian (black) and (dark blue) appliqu=E9s. Silver leaf and paint skillfully applied by my friend, a local sign artist.
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Structural foam sign
May 30, 2009
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Farking cool!
How big is your router bed?
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can be so anal! Can you explain how you did it?
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good! I hope you got a dinner out of it. (Or even got paid for it.)
50" x 100" General/Gorilla with a 3HP Elte spindle. (psssst...bought it to do undermount sink cut-outs in solid surface countertops..*chuckles*)
I took a sketch that the owner did, a rough outline of what he wanted with "the feel of the company logo" He is in all aspects 'an engineer' and wanted a 'mechanical' look. I then created the file in Adobe Illustrator, exported it to Vectric Aspire and created the tool-paths. First I cut the foam
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the Corian. Then my buddy painted it.
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It was a trade. His boys helpe me with two quartz countertop installations. 975# for one, 1375# for the other... so I guess I made a few hundred.
You'd make more money if you had fewer friends. ;)
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should double the price in 2010 when the sign no longer applies....
and again in 2011....2012.... etc.....
jc
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