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With just about every project we tackle we seem to venture into unknown territory. As such, our projects are designed, bid and well into construction long before we figure out all the details of just how we can possibly finish them.
Our current job follows this pattern to the extreme.
The final sign will be 24 feet wide and 22 feet tall. Its built in sections to allow transport... and to allow it to fit out the shop doors (barely). The pieces are BIG!
The sign is of fiberglass-reinforced-concrete over a welded structural steel frame. The name portion which fits into the empty rectangular space at the bottom is of routed Precision Board. (Its the PAYING job currently on the router now Raymond) We will route raised letters and a rock texture into the board... simple stuff with the right tools.
There will also be a large scale three dimensional airtram (Also routed from Precision Board) which will hang in the center hole where Phoenix is posing. It gets routed later this week. (another PAYING project for the router Raymond)
The head scratching part is how to fit, fasten and transport everything for the finished project... and still look like pro's when we are done... even though we are pretty much winging it all the way through.
Travelling at high speed without a road map is certainly exciting...
-grampa dan
[ February 22, 2006, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Dan Sawatzky ]
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Dan without a map...fancy that... Getting lost is OK - you discover lots along the way - right? Looks really cool Dan, I'm looking forward to the final results, although I think I have it pretty much pictured in my mind.....Are Phoebe and Janis going to be looking out the window?
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Just ask Duncan... even when we are going in the wrong direction we ALWAYS make good time... and have a TON OF FUN along the way!
-grampa dan
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What? You didn't buy the winch and towing attachments for the Multi-Cam? LOL
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You're slipping Sawatzky....couldn't find a MC logo anywhere in the photo.
And I believe you...I'm sure that we will eventually see a paying job come off that router. You've been telling us there is one in progress now for about a month.
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So is there something between the steel and the concrete, or is that whole thing solid? I can't imagine it is- or it would be unbearable to transport. Are you attaching a wire mesh to the steel, then troweling or spraying it on?
I told you I had at least a million questions. I'm only on number ten, I think.
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So Dan, I have to ask. Have you ever run into the problem of not being able to deliver your products because of size restrictions at your client's location? Fun and cool, as usual
Havin' fun,
Checkers
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The Step by Step is in SignCraft issue 97 Nov/Dec 1997
Checkers While we've certainly had our share of tight squeezes I try and measure things up on iste prior to our fabricating. We have a big project currently in design that is in the center of a mall on the third floor and 3ooo miles from our shop... and the project is HUGE! Lots of head scratching is currently happening on that one believe me. I made a trip to the site a couple of months ago with another planned before we start fabrication here in our shop... just to make one final measure.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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