interior signage: simon carter

[Joe McNamara]

Hi Rich,

Can you stop putting up pictures of such nice work – you’re putting the rest of us to shame !!! 😮

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

Really excellent work though mate – nice to see stuff like this.

Cheers
Joe

[Nicola McIntosh]

nice job done rich 😀

nik

[Hugh Potter]

looks very good Rich,

thanks fro showing the build up pics, i always find that the more interesting part than the finished sign to be honest, though the sign does look very smart of course !

[Lynn Normington]

lovely work Rich, was that matt vinyl ? love the little scooter was that you idea?

Lynn

[LeeMorris]

Nice work rich

What did you use to stick the letters on ?

Did you make them or buy them in?

Lee

[Marcella Ross]

I like that. :thumbsup:

[Richard Urquhart]

thanks all

the vinyl is matt and the dog is part of their logo we do a lot of stuff with this company, we have been working on more and more signs i just thought putting a print on to 5mm foam would give the sign some depth.

the letters are not made by me or the company i normally use for my flat cut letters because the word London is so small it cant be cut out in the normal way and has to be laser cut which not many companies like doing as the black fumes this stuff produces

I normally use hot glue for the letters or as shown trim tape or as i call it glue on a roll made by 3m, we have used this for years and is really used more within the automotive trade

rich

[Peter Mindham]

Richard,

Really nice clean work. :appl:

Peter

[Robert Lambie]

Richard, i know you are relatively new to the trade mate but i really hope more new comers follow your foot steps. yes, a simple enough sign but the procedure and end result is very good indeed. the fact you gave it more thought than a bit of gloss vinyl on a board, to the point you used flat cutter letters and logo to give it more depth, plus the matt vinyl face is in itself giving that bit more to the customer than the the norm. well done!

only gripe, if any i have… is that the board is foamex, if interior work then not a problem. exterior work you will have issues with swelling of the board. i would suggest alternative substrates like leboard and the like which is a lower costing aluminum composite board as an alternative to dibond and the like costing only about £40 for an 8×4 from europoint.

[Andy Gorman]

Yet another top job Rich. Good ‘un.

[James Martin]

tks for that rich.

Whats going on in the fifth picture, lookslike you have cut a template the shape of the letters, or cut letters out of something.?

Jimmy

[LeeMorris]

Picking up on what Rob said about leboard , i see its skin is thinner than the aluminum panels, is that the only difference for the price or is one used for different signs to the other .

Lee

while on the subject i see a new shop sign in our village for a well known local company and the sign is made from correx its about 12ft long and looks warped already .wonder if the business asked for the cheapest thing out or the sign company used it to make more profit. either way it looks a mess to me.

Lee

[Richard Urquhart]

thanks guys
check the title i would only use this type of thing inside as many of you know i love dibond !!

the 5th photo shows flat cut letters with a paper template which i used the plotter to draw then i cut the letter shapes out so i could get them in the correct place. I would sometimes use vinyl for the template but in this case i did not want to as vinyl to vinyl can cause little bubbles in the flood coat when you remove the template

[Robert Lambie]

nobody told me about the word interior on the title 😳 sorry rich :lol1:

i use very similar method for aligning flat cut text with vinyl rich. i know what you mean regarding the lifting of the flood coat on foamex too..
i have actually done a demo on flat cuts and using this process, still to load it though. 🙄

thanks for taking the time to show us your work rich.. 😀

[Jason Xuereb]

Very nice work. Clever how you hid the overlap of the background vinyl aswell.

[Richard Urquhart]

hi all fitted this sign on Friday 3 hours getting to and from 20mins to fit with double sided tape

not the best photo

rich

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[Jason Xuereb]

Looks top notch.

[Stepen Wood]

that looks great, good job

Cheers Stephen

[Shane Drew]

another good job rich. well done