tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19793605296369651372024-03-12T18:33:27.973-07:00Speaking from ExperienceDan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comBlogger1261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-39237371880019851892017-12-31T20:02:00.001-08:002017-12-31T20:02:30.100-08:00Signing offBack in March of 2010 I posted the very first entry to this blog. At that point I had been using Precision Board and a CNC router about four years and was still very much at the beginning of a learning adventure that continues to this day. I know that learning adventure will never end.<br />
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Here's that first post.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">In this journal it is my hope that I will be able to share with you the many ways we use Precision Board high density urethane and other products from Coastal Enterprises in our projects. We don't always follow the directions or use things in a similar fashion as most other people. We have however, through proven experience used these products with great success to build the wildest things imaginable. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">I'll be posting a couple times each week, showing projects we have done in the past and also giving peeks into what's going on in our studio on a regular basis. Hopefully the posts will inspire everyone to push their own boundaries as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Way back then information on CNC routers and how to use them was hard to come by. Precision Board was still relatively new to the industry as well and few were using the heavier densities I already loved. I had so many questions which needed answering and I knew many others did too. I approached Coastal Enterprises to sponsor this </span></span>endeavour and thankfully, they happily did.<br />
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Over the last eight years I have posted almost 1,300 entries to this blog (and sister blogs sponsored by EnRoute Software and MultiCam.) Those many hundreds of project step by steps, videos and drawings have been viewed more than 653,000 times. That's AMAZING and a whole lot more than I ever imagined possible. It is gratifying to have achieved that kind of following.<br />
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As we turn the corner into 2018 we've decided to discontinue this project in this form. The 'speaking from experience' blog will stay live, with all of the valuable information archived and still accessible. It is my hope that readers will still use the archived material as they need to in the future.<br />
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<b>The good news</b> is that I will continue posting our projects as a guest writer on Coastal Enterprises' official blog each month. <a href="http://precisionboard.com/precision-board-plus-official-blog/">http://precisionboard.com/precision-board-plus-official-blog/</a><br />
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I want to say a BIG thank you to Coastal Enterprises for supporting this adventure for the last eight years! And thanks to all of our faithful readers as well! I look forward to sharing a whole lot more cool projects through 2018 and beyond!<br />
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And you can always check out our latest projects on our journal at <a href="http://www.imaginationcorporation.com/journal/">http://www.imaginationcorporation.com/journal/</a></div>
Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-7730963588823807042017-12-31T19:00:00.002-08:002017-12-31T19:00:37.065-08:00Robot table sculpt done<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
On the last day of 2017 I spent a little more time in the shop finishing up the sculpt of the Coastal Enterprises' robot table. This included the robot's head, arms and hands. The fingers were sculpted in such a fashion as to hide the structure of the table top. </div>
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With the integral welded steel frame inside the top and through the hands and arms this thing is plenty strong!</div>
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As I was rummaging through the electrical parts drawer yesterday I came across a spare switch which I decided to include on the back of the robot. I used a couple of chain links to build a guard on each side.<br />
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With the sculpt now finished we'll move on to paint later this week. We will go with retro colours and plenty of wear, aging and grime to bring it to life. If you happen to be going to the ISA show in Orlando drop by the Coastal Enterprises' booth to take a look.<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-59950542344662318022017-12-30T21:54:00.002-08:002017-12-30T21:54:31.321-08:00Topped out<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I routed the table top in four pieces. The main part of the top was built as a lower and upper section. I routed a cross slot in the top to accept a welded 1" X 1" square tubing frame. I applied some PB Bond fast set glue to the two halves and then served them together. Two more pieces for the front and back of the table top were then fastened to the top. These two pieces had the words 'Precision Board' routed into them. </div>
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-25752815773782008142017-12-29T23:36:00.001-08:002017-12-29T23:36:13.842-08:00Details - just for funI managed a couple of hours in the shop this afternoon. In that time I finished the bottom of the back of the robot. As an extra little feature I added a window hatch which some small details in side using short lengths of wire, a spare air pressure gauge and some bits of hose. The small viewing window fogged up as the fresh paint inside dried but it should clear up overnight. The detail will be a reward for the few who take the time to look at the back of the robot table. I'll also be adding an on/off switch above it as well - just for fun.<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-83882469650797006602017-12-28T22:10:00.002-08:002017-12-29T11:06:08.718-08:00Building the bodyI've stated many times that we use 30 lb Precision Board exclusively in our shop. This is true when it pertains to CNC routing... but when we are hand sculpting high density urethane that will be coated with sculpting epoxy we sometimes use four pound foam. It is so soft I can practically carve it with my hands.<br />
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The rough armature for the robot body was a great place to use this less dense foam. It needed to be fit around the welded steel armature and then roughed into shape. I used there layers of 3" four pound foam. Since I was going to coat it in sculpting epoxy I wasn't concerned with gaps or rough edges. I used PB Bond fat set which cures in only one hour. I glued it up before I went to lunch and when I returned I was able to remove the clamps and get busy sculpting over the new form.<br />
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I used crumpled tinfoil to fill the gaps and holes and then pressed on a layer of sculpting epoxy. Once this had set I did another layer that was detailed. In a few hours I did the legs and the bulk of the front of the robot body. Rather than my usual rivets I opted to sculpt flat head screws for more of a retro feel. Tomorrow the bulk of the sculpt should be done. Stay tuned...</div>
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-14908782207218853872017-12-28T22:09:00.002-08:002017-12-28T22:09:40.301-08:00A fun little tableAs per usual the shop is quiet between Christmas and the New Year. The crew is taking some deserved time off to be with their families. With Christmas falling on a Monday it meant we had a couple of days to do our final shopping and ready the house for two days of company. Then it was time to kick back and enjoy family and lots of good eating. By the time Wednesday rolled around I needed to burn off some energy and get active.<br />
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Last night I designed the display piece for our friends at Coastal Enterprises' booth at the International Sign Association EXPO in Orlando in March. I just knew that as soon as we got going again after the New Year we'll be busy until our big projects are finished in May. I enjoy getting my hands dirty in the shop and without crew and other interruptions I can get a lot done in a hurry.<br />
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As always space in a trade show booth is in short supply. I decided a small 24" x 24" table to display samples of their products would be just the ticket. Coastal Enterprises makes Precision Board, glues and primers which we use in our shop exclusively.<br />
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The project is made of there pieces... a base pedestal with their logo routed into each side, the strongman robot, and the tabletop.<br />
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I designed the routing files in Enroute. The sides had the Coastal enterprises logo routed into them. I'll be hand texturing the faces and top and adding rivets. For the feet of the robot I drew the vectors of the few on top of the base top to get the scale right and to make sure it didn't overlap our company ID.</div>
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The sides of the base were screwed to a plywood box which I had previously built.. It was fastened to a 1/4" stem plate which I cut on the MultiCam CNC plasma cutter, The few were done as two pieces which stacked on top of each other to give me the 1.5" depth I wanted. These were fastened to the base top. I then hand sculpted the detail over these forms using Sculpting Epoxy.</div>
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Since we were going out to see the Star Wars movie this is as far as I got today. Tomorrow I'll do a little more on the project. Stay tuned...</div>
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I had a pretty good idea of what the machine would look like when iI did the first sketches but the vision was somewhat fuzzy. I started with the base plate, designing each piece, cutting it and then welding it together or fastening it in place. There's quite the mix of materials including steel plate, Precision Board, various sized pipes, fittings, bearings, shafts, sprockets and pulleys along with lots of sculpting epoxy too. There's a few antique bits and pieces as well. It's quite the collection.<br />
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As always it will be the paint that ties it all together visually. I did a little some time ago on a few of the pieces that needed to be painted before assembly. Yesterday, Janessa started painting the base coats on the rest. The colour quickly changed the piece in a dramatic fashion. It's far too bright, monochromatic and new looking for the story I'm telling at this point. Over the next week I'll age things down dramatically. Stay tuned for the fun...<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-26111410774804451952017-12-17T22:33:00.002-08:002017-12-17T22:33:29.530-08:00Sign Challenge 2018 progressI jumped into the building of my 2018 Sign Invitational piece as soon as I returned from Las Vegas nine months ago. The theme for the 2018 invitational is 'MARVELOUS MACHINE' I posted pictures of my progress perviously on the blog <a href="http://multicamdan.blogspot.ca/search/label/Marvelous%20Machine" target="_blank">here</a>. The last post was July 1. Since then we've been slammed with lots of creative projects in the shop as well as numerous business trips to Trinidad, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Atlantic City and more. That meant the piece has been mostly collecting dust since then. But with the holidays and New Year quickly approaching it was time to get back to work once more.<br />
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In the last few days I've been out in the shop after hours helping Phoebe with a school project she's working on. While I was mixing sculpting epoxy for her I also found time to work on my Sign Invitational piece once more. The piece is coming along pretty well, with the bottom two thirds almost done, with the exception of paint. I also mounted the 'human interface device' (HID) today. I used parts off an old antique typewriter I had laying around.<br />
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This coming week and over the holidays I hope to put in a little more time and hopefully will finish the sculpting. It's going to be fun!<br />
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For anyone who wishes to enter this year's fun contest drop me a line as it is time to seriously get going. <a href="mailto:dan@imaginationcorporation.com">dan@imaginationcorporation.com</a><br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-36218641568342775842017-12-13T21:45:00.001-08:002017-12-13T21:45:45.259-08:00A honey of a signWe'll be building two copies of the HoneyPot sign. One will go on the operator's booth while the second (With a sculpted bee) will be positioned at the start of the queue.<br />
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The routing file was created with three layers, rather than the two the concept art suggested. This is so the sign will better match the many others already in the park.<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-62314811653317730502017-12-13T21:39:00.001-08:002017-12-13T21:39:34.128-08:00It's the little thingsOur MultiCam CNC plasma cutter has dramatically changed the way we fabricate our themed pieces. In the process it has ramped up the quality and durability of our work. The handy machine has also increased out productivity in a large measure.<br />
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Often it's the small hidden things that have made the most difference. A current project is a good example.<br />
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We are currently fabricating an operator's booth for a theme park ride. It is similar to many we have done previously with a few small differences. The design of the booth matches the ride. It has there legs/posts to ensure the installation is quick and easy. Three legged objects never wobble - even if the concrete pad happens to be a little uneven of off level.<br />
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Each leg needed a base plate for a couple of reasons. First the steel plate serves as a method to fasten the structure to the concrete deck. By having it extend to the outside of the sculpted concrete it protects the brittle material from chipping or cracking during the moving in the shop, transport and setting up stages. Having a CNC plasma cutter in-house means we can do custom plates in a hurry and still stay within budget and our timeline. Steel plate is relatively inexpensive. I designed the cutting file in EnRoute in a few minutes.<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-87667778597420051112017-12-10T18:47:00.002-08:002017-12-10T18:47:25.936-08:00Some project take a long while!A like more than three and a half years ago I designed the primary sign for Skallywag Bay adventure Park. I designed he routing files a short time later but it would be another year before we started to build two copies of the sign. That process was chronicled <a href="http://multicamdan.blogspot.ca/2015/06/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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We routed he hulls of the ships from multiple layers of 2" thick 30 lb Precision Board.</div>
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These were glued together and hen we sculpted the details onto the two copies of the ship.</div>
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Two and a half years ago the two signs, along with hundreds of other features were carefully packed into eighteen shipping containers and then shipped through the Panama Canal to Trinidad.</div>
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Yesterday, one of these signs was the last piece to be carefully lifted into it's final home.</div>
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-48534502926235243052017-11-29T21:00:00.002-08:002017-11-29T21:00:20.955-08:00More signs at Skallywag BayThere were a whole lot of signs which we did for Skallywag Bay in Trinidad and I'e been itching to get them installed for quite some time. During my last visit to the site we got almost all of the larger pieces placed around the site. We did it using a 60' zoom boom which is a very handy machine. I have my forklift licence for our little machine at the shop but the larger machine was a whole new experience! The key is to go slow and easy. Every move is amplified when the boom is fully extended and to reach these pieces we did just that most of the time.<br />
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The sign posts will have heavy rope work installed at a later point by someone who knows how to braid the rope and tie the proper knots.</div>
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The soil will be put into the planters around the base of the signs and the greenery will soften the look and make the signs blend better into the picture.</div>
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-24478059881907352852017-11-29T19:36:00.002-08:002017-11-29T19:36:13.404-08:00One Track Mine Co - Part two<br />
I routed three copies of the little One Track Mining Co. vehicle chassis. I'll make three different models as per the original sketches. The pieces were routed from some scraps of 1.5" 30 lb Precision Board. Since I uses a tapered 1/8" bit the track shoes routed just as I imagined, slightly thinner at the edges. I had routed the pieces with a 80% overlap which provided a smooth surface. I left a thin onion skin layer against the spoil board so the small pieces stayed put on the vacuum spoil board on the router.<br />
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Here's the same there pieces pulled apart. I simply blew the dust off the pieces with an air hose before I glued them up using a five minute epoxy and five clamps.<br />
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Before I started the sculpt I did up a new rendering of the wheelbarrow vehicle based on the little scale model as the engine housing/hood wasn't in my first renders. I'll do my sculpt with this new drawing as a reference. The hardest part of this build is that it will have to wait two weeks before I do it as I head out of town bright and early tomorrow morning. :) Stay tuned...</div>
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The three little One Track Mine Co. machines are so much fun I decided to build them first as some sample models. As I designed the routing reliefs I made some modifications to make them better. I'm sure more modifications will follow as we build the pieces full size as well.</div>
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I built the vector files completely in EnRoute. The track files are a lot like the tank files we built a little while ago but these sport a little more detail. The biggest change from the concept sketch was the addition of a motor hood. I built it in three sections (two sides and a front)</div>
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I started with the track backing plate. This was created as a relief 0.2" thick. The center was then dropped by half that to effectively create the chain links between the treads.</div>
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The cleat sprockets were next and were created as separate reliefs 0.3" tall. I then selected the track pieces and combined them with the track shape. I could do this because they protruded outside of the track shape. The sprocket pieces were MERGED HIGHEST with the track back.</div>
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And the wheel lugs were then added by modifying the base relief and using the ADD TO and dome tool.</div>
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Last up for the track reliefs were the cleats. These were created as separate reliefs that were one inch tall. Since they were outside but overlapped the base relief I selected the cleats and the base relief and then used the combine tool to make them one relief.<br />
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The floor and hood of the little tractor was created as a separate flat relief. that was 1.2" tall. The hood vent slots were then dropped into this relief using the subtract tool. This new piece and the track relief were then selected and combined into one relief.</div>
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The grill of the tractor was next. I first created a zero height relief.</div>
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The grill and started holes were then created using the subtract tool.</div>
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I then created a zero height relief and used the merged highest command to effectively clip the bottom off the grill. I then used the slice tool to take off the zero height portion of the relief.</div>
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The last step was to create a dirt base for the tractor This was done as a simple flat relief which was 1.5" tall. This new separate relief and the tractor relief were selected and combined to form one relief.</div>
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The track relief was duplicated and flipped so I could glue it to the back of the original to create the tractor. The grill will be glued to the end of the motor housing. The piece was now ready to be tool pathed and sent off tp the MultiCam. It will be routed from a piece of 1.5: 30 lb Precision Board. Stay tuned for the next steps...<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-273336785417119692017-11-19T19:04:00.002-08:002017-11-19T19:04:51.429-08:00Piece by pieceSIt is pure magic as we install the scores of features at Skallywag Bay in Trinidad. It's been four years since we started building the fourteen shipping containers full of features. We packed the last of them into the containers more than two years ago. Now at last it is time to install everything. Today was the day to assemble two of the attraction signs. Being too tall to fit out of the shop door we built and shipped them in sections. Today was the first time we've seen them put together. They are every bit as we imagined they would be and will look even better when he gardens are planted!<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-55171766795811804332017-11-18T14:27:00.001-08:002017-11-18T14:27:16.057-08:00One track mine concepts...Last month I did a step by step of building a little display tank. It was a fun little project! Now i looks like we may just get to build a series of tracked features which use some of those ideas.<br />
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A client has asked us to come up with some ideas for a mining theme adventure golf. Our first concept was pretty conventional, being a narrow gauge mining railroad car. We just built one a few weeks ago so the concept came pretty quick. But as I finished the concept we knew we could get a whole lot more creative. After some discussion we came up with a ring machine, protruding from the ground. Golfers would golf into the broken chute from an upper level. The ball would go down chute and then around he corkscrew of the boring machine before dropping onto the golfing green.<br />
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The last machine in this series was the drilling machine.</div>
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The ideas are so much fun I may just decide to do up some study models. If so I'll post step by steps here. At the very least here will be plenty of CNC plasma cut files to make. Stay tuned...</div>
Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-47809808431531196312017-11-17T18:51:00.002-08:002017-11-17T18:51:59.606-08:00Packing up the display.The booth showed extremely well over the last our days as about 25,000 people came by. Our display did exactly what it was designed to do and that was attract attention of all those who walked by. We handed out a lot of business cards, scanned many badges. We met so many great people in our industry!<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-31678017729350639982017-11-15T18:58:00.002-08:002017-11-15T18:58:52.644-08:00Another honourLast year we were honoured with a first place IAAPA Brass Ring award for best booth in our category. We were so pleased we decided to have a large sticker made to put on the front carpet of our display. We also proudly displayed the beautiful glass trophy in our booth. When we ordered the decal for last year's win we decided to order a second one - just in case. Our hope was that this year's booth might just be good enough to be honoured once more in the next category up, for the 200-299 square feet booths. Competition there would be even tougher.<br />
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We received word that we had indeed been honoured once again. The head judge was very amused by our self-congratulating decal we had printed in anticipation and was gracious enough to help us stick the new decal (which had been in hiding) on the carpet beside last year's announcement.<br />
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Dan Sawatzkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391077031533922921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979360529636965137.post-43699481850701491862017-11-14T18:50:00.001-08:002017-11-14T18:50:17.341-08:00Trade show setupIt's been a very busy month of almost non-stop travel for me, with most of the trips to Trinidad as we wrap up the Skallywag Bay Adventure Park. It's looking very cool these days. I'll be posting some photos of that project next week on my return. This week we are attending the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions EXPO in Orlando, Florida. The trade show is massive with over 1000 vendors and 40,000 attendees from around the world. This is our second year as a vendor.<br />
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I arrived in Orlando, straight from Trinidad. Since I was the first onsite (the rest of our new was coming from home the same evening) it fell to me to do the booth setup. I waited a few minutes for a connection centre forklift to position our booth in the enter of our space. Then it was a simple matter of undoing four bolts, swinging open the two sides, rolling out the carpets and plugging in the power. As quick as that we were ready for the show.<br />
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As I set up our booth I watched hundreds of other vendors unpacking and setting up their displays. Some had been labouring for days and were no where near done. I was grateful for the wonderful CNC tools we enjoy that help us do our work so efficiently. Everything fits together so nicely which makes things go much smoother in the field.<br />
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The first is Elsie's name plaque. We started by painting it an off white colour. We did three coats of colour and allowed them to dry thoroughly in-between. An industrial fan really speeds up the drying.</div>
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A light tan was the first glaze. We make our own glazes using a 50/50 mix of clear base (paint with no pigment added at the paint store) with the colour of our choice. The glaze was brushed on liberally nd then wiped off with a soft terry towel rag. The first glaze is only lightly wiped off. The glaze stays in the lower areas.</div>
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The third glaze is a dark brown and this is wiped off quite a bit. Once this has dried we go back with a brush and add the glaze on the border around the letters. This dark colour makes them pop. Once the last glaze was dry we painted the letters metallic gold.</div>
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Dustin's name plaque was done much the same way, one;y with various shades of blue glaze. The lettering was again painted last with two coats of metallic gold.</div>
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Daniel's name plaque was first painted with a metallic gold and then the glass were accomplished in two shades of copper. The lettering was back to the gold.<br />
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Janis loves chickens but there are no roosters allowed. (they tend to crow early in the morning and wake her up!) I believed we needed a rooster somewhere on the property and so I designed a fun fellow to perch on top of a sign Janis had been asking for in our yard to warn visitors to slow down as they passed through the the shop. </div>
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As with all of our projects we would use a variety of mediums and methods to build it.</div>
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The sign portion was done on our MultiCam of course, routed from there layers of 30 lb Precision Board. These layers would be laminated over a welded square tube steel frame. The wood grain was created with a custom bitmap wood grain texture. It's called driftwood and is available on our <a href="http://www.imaginationcorporation.com/textures/" target="_blank">TEXTURE MAGIC - CLASSIC COLLECTION</a>.</div>
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While the machine worked at routing the front and back of the sign I got busy doing the rest of the piece. I roughed out an armature using 1/4" pencil rod. It's welded together for extra rigidity. </div>
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I used some crumpled up tinfoil to fill the centre cavity of the rooster. Tin foil is lot cheaper than sculpting epoxy!</div>
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The next step was to rough out the general proportions of the bird body. This was allowed to cure before moving on.</div>
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The sculpt was a fun one to do but there were a whole lot of feathers in this little guy!</div>
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The roosters feet could then be carved to look like he was tightly gripping the top of the sign.</div>
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The rocks at the bottom of the tree were done using fibreglass reinforced concrete. The heavy weight of the concrete made the sign more stable. The rocks were hand painted with acrylic house paints and then speckled using an automotive undercoat gun and very low air pressure.</div>
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It was placed in planter and a colourful display of flowers was planted around it to finish things off nicely!</div>
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With the lath in place it was time for a little concrete work. I mixed up the sand and Portland cent at a ratio of about four parts sand to one part cement powder. Then I troweled it onto the mesh. This takes some practice. I've been doing it for decades so this part went pretty fast.</div>
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To ensure the next coat of concrete stuck well I scratched up the surface of the first coat. We used a bonding agent as well but a mechanical bond is good insurance.</div>
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This coat of cement was allowed to cure overnight.</div>
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Since the stone was still on order I started in on the painting process. We use acrylic house paint in our shop. I applied there base coats of each colour, allowing it to dry in-between. Putting a large fan on the project speeds up this process a great deal.</div>
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I then applied a dark green glaze (the same colour as the border) to the sign and wiped it off with a rag to make the grain pop. The glaze stays in the deeper areas and wipes off the high areas of the grain. The areas around the letters was left a little darker to make the letters pop off the background.<br />
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Once the glaze was dry I painted the scrollwork a couple of coats of a lighter shade of green. At this point my supplier let me know the faux rock I had ordered wasn't available in a reasonable time. It was time for plan 'B'. I put another thick layer of concrete on the base and carved the rocks into it by hand.<br />
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This sign was for a chiropractor. He has just refurbished his building and wanted a new monument sign out front. The building was a historic farm house and looked pretty good. I based the first design on the photograph he provided. </div>
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My client liked my first design but decided he would rather have the chiropractor's symbol instead of the building picture. I found the vectors for that logo online.</div>
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The second design was approved by my client.</div>
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I designed the sign cutting files in EnRoute. The sign face was cut from 1.5" Precision Board which would be laminated to an additional six layers of 1" thick Precision Board. My client wanted a chunky sign!</div>
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Once the board was cut I fitted the 4" x 4" steel tubing into the cutouts and tacked up the frame.</div>
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I then finished the welding and added the base plates. I had asked my client to pour a concrete pad six inches below the finished grade where the sign was going. This would allow us to simply lift the sign into position, drill some holes in the concrete, pound in some anchor bolts and tighten the nuts to do a quick and simple install. The stand would also allow me to work on the sign safely in the shop. Note the vertical bar which fit into the middle layer of the sign. This bar is the structure for lifting the sign. I welded a threaded nut to the top into which I twisted an anchor bolt. This was removed when the sign was placed onsite.</div>
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I then glued and screwed the layers of the sign together. Note how the one part urethane glue tends to bubble out as it cures. This can be wiped up as it squeezes out but we have a little different approach.</div>
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For the next stage we use an air powered die grinder to purposely add texture to the sides and back of the sign. This step also gets rid of that pesky glue. For some reason I timed how long it took me to do the texturing with the die grinder... it was thirteen minutes. I should note that when the good doctor came to approve his sign he walked around the sign admiring it. He ran his hand over the texture on the car and sides of the sign and asked me if I had done that by hand. I nodded. He then said 'It must have taken a LONG TIME!' I smiled and told him he had no idea how long it had taken me. He then happily wrote me the check, feeling good about the value I had put into the project.</div>
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The galvanized lath comes in three weights... we use the medium weight. It is cut to size with the snips and a pair of end cutters is used to twist the rebar tie wire to fasten on the lath. The wire is bent into a hook and then inserted through the lath to hook around the pencil rod. It is then pulled back through the lath and twisted and cut flush with the surface. This job takes practice to get good and fast.</div>
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The concrete tower will be hidden by wrapping a portion of a mountain around it. A mine shaft will go through the centre and guests will be able to golf through this feature.<br />
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Construction of the theme work is now well underway. The tunnel through the structure is being fabricated in two sections. This will be lifted into the centre of the golf and then slid into place (no small feat). Then the six outer sections will be craned into place around the tower and bolted together. As with much of our work we will sculpt the rock and timbers from fibreglass reinforced concrete.<br />
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A mine car will be situated where guests enter the mine. It will add to the theme and also act as a number marker for the hole. Our client was inspecting the progress on the mine shaft early this week and noticed the work I had done on our rail car which was sitting in the shop parking lot. (Samples work!) He asked for his mine car to have the same kind of detail he saw on our rail truck. I did up a quick concept and he gave it the thumbs up!<br />
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I designed the car totally in EnRoute. Everything would be created from steel which meant our MultiCam plasma cutter was going to get quite a workout. The pieces were cut from 1/4" and 1/8" plate steel. I allowed three days to design, cut and fabricate the mine car. I did all of the fabrication by myself, save for when I needed some lifting assistance. I managed to do it all in about twenty hours of work.<br />
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By quitting time today the fabrication was complete. We'll sculpt the rocks in the car and the base using fibreglass reinforced concrete. The car will be allowed to rust to make it look old.<br />
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The wind up key mount was the first accessory relief to be created for the tank. I started with a flat relief 0.2" tall.</div>
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The rivets were the next modification by using the dome tool.</div>
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Next up was the hatch lid. It started as a simple flat relief.<br />
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This flat relief was modified using the dome tool</div>
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The two mountain g arms were created as 1/2" tall flat reliefs.</div>
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These two arms were then combined with the lid of the hatch.</div>
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The hatch itself was the next step/. It was created as a flat relief which was 0.2" tall.</div>
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The raised ring and lid mounting flange vectors were then used to modify the flat relief using the add to command. They were raised 0.8" making the piece a total of 1" tall (the same thickness as our board)</div>
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The last step was to add the rivets using the dome tool.</div>
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That finished the reliefs for the tank. It was a simple matter of tool pathing them and sending the files along to the MultiCam to be cut from 30 lb Precision Board.</div>
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