Lawyer sign Delivered

I finished up all the painting touches on the Lawyer sign today and we delivered it at 5:30 pm. The customer was very pleased! We aren't installing this sign, the contractor who called us is. Nice! My favorite situation!

It would've been nice to get a picture of it sitting upright, but I wanted it to sit on the welded frame. The dark black/grey brickwork is very subtle, but looks so much better than a woodgrain, or just plain and no texture. The scales look great sitting on they're 1" standoffs.
While I was delivering the sign, I was able to pick up our crystal diamonds that will be "bling-ing" out the Chlamydia necklace. I'm gonna draw up the router file tonight. I probably won't get to machining it until the weekend, as there is a ton of work to do in the new place were moving to.
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JO

The Scales of Justice

We got the new design space at the new shop all framed and clad. Tomorrow, my very good friend Joe from the sign shop Christoff Creations, is coming in with me to work on getting the space textured so we can keep moving forward. In the mean time, I worked all day on getting the Lawyer sign close to completion. There was a little bit of painting and gold leaf left to do.
I had cut the parts for the scales of justice on the weekend, so they would be ready for today.

 The scale were cut as 2D out of a piece of 3/8" rigid PVC. Plenty strong enough for the task at hand. I drew up the bowl shape using Aspire. I also left 2 tabs on one side that I would use to run along the fence of the table saw. I would then clean off the tabs when they were split. It was way faster to machine the 2 half bowls as one, and split it down the middle on the saw, than to machine up 2 separate ones. The bowls I cut from Ren shape. Ren shape is a urethane pattern making material that cuts very easily, but is very hard. This particular piece would be the equivalent to #70 sign foam (if it existed!)

I used brass fasteners with lots of Locktite to mount the scales and bowls to the sign backer. The fasteners go right though to recesses in the back of the sign. I will fill the back tomorrow at some point.
 I also received a note, and some pictures, from Christian at Brilliant Creative, showing me how the crazy office furniture we worked on a while ago turned out.

I really dig his choice of going natural maple! I think it looks stellar.
On a last note, it looks like we are going ahead with the Chlamydia necklace for an upcoming shoot.
Yeah, you read it right. What happens in Vegas...............................

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JO

all them bones....................

We got the final go-ahead on today's job late yesterday. We got a call to make 4 wishbones for a shoot on Thursday, but they needed them by 5 pm today. Pretty tight deadline for sure! The saving grace was that we had made wishbones about 4 years ago, and still had the silicone mold for them. The original piece was made from a sculpted piece of 1/4" sintra and epoxy putty.

In order to make the rubber mold as easy as possible, the original was made curved in one direction only, while laying flat on it's back. If you de-mold the part a hair early, you can bend and twist it to a new shape, and it will harden in that new position

They only asked for 4, but we gave them an extra just in case.

Jody did all the flash trimming and painting, while I painted the lettering on the lawyer sign. They read quite a bit darker in the photos then they were in real life.

I also put a hairline stress crack in each of them to insure they would all break the same way every time. I'm sure this will be a quick and dirty shot, but it's good to know that our stuff won't be giving them any issues.

The Lawyer sign is moving along nicely, very monochromatic, but that's the what they wanted.  I'm back at the new shop working on the framing and wall cladding tomorrow, as the move date is screaming towards us.
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JO