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Award: De Ver Elite
Hey look I even got my paint brush out for this job 😉 it’s not often I do that – not quite up to your standards though Jill 😕
This was my last job of the year and I just finished it tonight – phew ! Now I can start to write my Christmas cards !
Nigel
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Bet you feel right proud of yourself!
Nice work Nigel
Such amazing skill with that big brush to acheive such fine lettering :lol1:
You can give yourself an award for that
John
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Interesting! Your left handed and you wear your watch on the left!
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…it’s a natural talent :lol1:
I used to be ambidextrous when I was younger – could be something to do with it !!
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Nice one Nigel, did you buy in the blanks then cnc the txt?
What a great business we are in, from huge neons to small plaques, such a variety of products produced in very interesting ways.
Cheers
Dave
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Don’t get into a pub brawl with an ambidextrous bloke
He’s got a good left and right
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Just buy me a pint and I’ll not be starting and pub brawls (drink1)
Dave, the blanks (colour chosen by customer) are Corian and I had them machined out by a specialist manufacturer. I laser engraved the text into them myself and paint filled for contrast. The Oval logo is 3mm polished stainless with the logo etched and filled.
As you say – it’s the variety of jobs in this business that keeps me interested and enthused from day to day !! I love it even after 12 years 😉
Nigel
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Nice work Nigel 😀 Looks the business!
Cheers, Dewi
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Nigel, your work is always so nice and professional….
I wish my stuff was as nice!
Isn’t it fun to get out the brushes?
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Great stuff Nigel, they look great!! We recently had a client who has a corian fascia exact colour as you have just used ….. we fitted built up polished stainless letters to it .. looks great!
Carrie 😀
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Thanks everyone – it was a pain in the neck to get it to this stage in the time they gave me (2weeks start to finish) and it will be nice to send it out the door on Monday morning 😀
Never used Corian before this but it seems like a pretty cool material – sounds like it would be pretty expensive for a fascia though ?? but i bet it looks the business ! What thickness sheets did you use Carrie ? and how did you fix it ?Nigel
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Hey Corian
What’s your game now
Can anybody playAnyone remember the Hollies?
:drums: :funky:
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:point: :rofl: :lol1:
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quote :Anyone remember the Hollies?NO thank you
nigel just love it – i like doing small stuff but my customers think small with the cheque books too
chris
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nigel, brilliant end to a years work… really nice plaques. thanks for showing mate.
i hate back filling large areas on brass… well not so much the back filling, but the actualy cleaning process.. we dont push engraving, but we do it from time to time.
would love any engraving experts to do a short demo on back filling or the like.. for me more than anything :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:i think the lazer engraver must be a great tool, very accurate/clean cut small text?
ive used corian for flat cut letters, i cut them on my router with a radious bit and the straight thru with cutting bit. creates a rich letter effect with dimention and its only flat cut.i dont have opictures of the sign but i still have a samle of the letter, ill take a picture and load here.
corian routes brilliant… great stuff to work with but as nigel says can be pricey too..
i think there is around 30 marble sort effects in the range… its obviosly much lighter and not as expensive as marble so for cost it would be a brill alternative for the customer that insists on the marble look.that sign sounds like it would look great with the corian back carrie…
like nigel says, was it thick? ide guess you could get thinner for the backing…
i saw that a company did huge corian ovals hanging from the ceiling in a restaurant with brass lettering on the face. looked brilliant. cant remember much more about it as it was in an old sign mag. 😕 -
Just been on DuPont’s website and amazingly it doesn’t tell you what the product is made of, just what it is capable of! 😮 What is Corian made of? I know its expensive for a large sheet as I priced it for some counter top when I was refitting the shop, but as Nigel has shown, it has some cool uses.
Cheers, Dewi
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i could be wrong dewi but i think we bought it from cherwells, it was years ago now… 😕
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I’ve never heard of it before
Is it a resin based material?
Don’t think they get cori’ from a quarry, do they Corrie?
….Sorry!
That came from the back of a lorry (translation for the US:’trucker’…….. but I’m not finding a ryhme for that!)
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Nigel, Rob, We designed the sign with corian in mind but it was fitted by the shopfitters, so all we had to do was fit the stainless letters. It was 10mm thick as far as I can recall and fitted with an angle at the base and gripfill ….. I think, possibly hidden fixing bolts aswell?
Pic here, although it doesnt show up the full effect:
The Hollies …… hmmmmm didnt they sing a song about some girls name? 😉 Can’t think of it though …… its at the tip of my tongue 😛
Edit: The only thing is the corian looks great, the letters look great but the top trim and base trim still needs doing 😮 ….. its on a slant as you can see … it bugs me everytime I walk past … It is being done in the New Year … I dont have a clue why it wasnt all done before we got there I think we should have been the finishing touch …. but some customers do things their own way? 😀
Sorry Nigel not meaning to hog your post here 😕 😀
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i would love to see your pics folks..but i view every photo in half 😮
so i’m afraid i cannot see your wonderful work 😥 😉Nik (maybe rob will help?) 😀
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Looks Terrific
Real Class
But what do you mean about the top and bottom trim cos it looks fine to me without
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John 😀 the corain had not been cut level on the bottom .. it is uneven and so that is why it needs a finishing trim and the top if you look carefully slants down to the right, you cannot see it very well in the pictures but it really does slope a lot compared to the rest of the building 😕 😀
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