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It's a new toy for you. Find out what makes it tick by practicing over and over. Gets some bits and some cheap substrates like home depot pink insulation foam and go to town. Stay at work after hours and do all the research you can the info is out there

cover the windows with acm It will look better than vinyl or paint and you will in and out quick

This may sound dumb to most of you We do about 1 set of channel letters a month around here and we keep the estimating simple. Up to a 23" inch letter it's $500 a letter $1000 for the permit and $1000 for the install. We do it this way because a 12" letter is no different than a...

try bevel see what u get

Looks like a fun build and you gotta love them signs made from off cuts from the last one

Thanks Maniac A consider that a "high compliment" coming from a sign maker of your caliber Thanks Jim Same thing I said to Maniac.Both of you guys do awesome work and are an inspiration Thanks Craig We made the brackets in house out of alum and sent them out to get powdercoated Doves were...

Nice upsell. 2 beans for the pair is also nice. I just looked at some invoices from the early 90's $200 was the norm for a pair We don't do many mags anymore. Most of that old bread and butter stuff has gone to you know who. In a way I am glad because it has forced me to hone my skills and...

All 18lb sign foam whittled on the shopbot and painted with ronan aquacote

I love stories with happy endings

1. I find flexi to have less features(please elaborate on the features of flexi) 2 I find corel and ai to be no where near the cost of flexi 3 there are no support issues with corel (anybody ever need corel or ai support ?) 4 there are no issues with the above(anybody ever had issues with...

Interesting thread I am always looking for the best ways to get things done in our shop. mrugen will you please elaborate as to why going to the flexi cloud is better then using something like corel or ai. I am always looking to improve.What's the advantage with the cloud? I see by searching...

You could also use one these to drill holesbut why when you can use this

first thought would be lose the the fade it's not doing anything

Yeah we all got the CNC and all the other latest goodies but sometimes it makes more sense to me to do the old way. We had these dove icons to do and they could have been modeled on the computer and thrown on the the robot. I started modeling them in Rhino and after an hour of not liking what...

Old school way You could make an efficient jig to hand route them. It doesn't take long and is easy build Cut a mdf blank of the shape. Hog some slots in your pattern to make a vac plenum. Attach this to a simple base that be clamped to bench Drill a hole in the middle of it the size of a...

awn tube flex face material stapled in

time is money That's the benefit

It's not a neon tube it's a argon mercury tube I am a tube bender. I would never repair a mercury tube. I would make a new one. Re bombing and pumping a mercury tube releases mercury vapor into the shop and is not good for your health or your pumping equipment. Plus you wind up with an ugly...