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JUst wanted to try and upload a pic of a sign we just finished recently. Still not an easy task! [IMG]http://www.letterhead.com/album/BullBoard/malone02.jpg [/IMG]
[ December 04, 2004, 09:07 AM: Message edited by: Monte Jumper ]
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Looks great Monty. Give us the lowdown on how you did it.
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Those bevelled letters look great and the layers work well too!
-dan
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That Gorilla Glue is good stuff...except for the expansion mess. I guess there's a downside to everything. But it's a lot better than the two part glue that Sign-Fome sells. If you get ANY residue at all on the sign, no paint will stick to it.
The sign looks great. Are those bevelled letters several layers of foam laminated together?
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The sign is all aluminum and sign foam...the oval (background) is .080 painted with automotive 25% flattened paint. the Malone letters are cut from .080 alum. with 1" signfoam carved with a diegrider mounted sanding drum and hand chiseled details...screw mounted with gorilla glue then mounted via two aluminum 1" angles (hidden behind the letters to give them a diminsional relief. all the letters are painted with Centari (no flattner in the letters)
The "On Asp" is foam on aluminum also but flush cut to the edge of the letter and stud mounted to the oval to put them in relief ahead of Malones. They were also glued with gorilla glue then trimmed with a flush cut router bit mounted in the die grinder. (were I to do this again I would glue the aluminum to the foam first and then just ccut them out without ant clean up after).
I pretty well controlled the gorilla glue by running a 1" path of glue (troweled out with a serated putty knife) down the middle of the letter...once they were screwed to the aluminum with gorilla glue filled holes they set up with a minmum amount of "weepage)" easily cleaned up with and sharp wood chisel.
The whole thing came together nicely I thought and I monitor it once a week looking for any failuers in the glue attachment ...(none so far)
All in all I am extrememly happy with my first experience with both the foam and glue.
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