signage: clanceys catering

[Robert Lambie]

those are nice mate, how did you cut the ovals and is the dibond flood coated or sheets own colour?

[Peter Normington]

Green ovals were cut in vinyl, applied to the alucolour, left the app tape on, then Hand jigsawed around, A quick sand arround the edge to finish.

[John Simpson]

nice one Peter, customer should be proud when they are fitted.

L J

[Robert Lambie]

a tip when doing this mate…
leave a 2mm outline of vinyl on the oval.
do as you did, leave tape on and jigsaw. when done, remove tape then peel the thin 2mm outline away. you will be left with a crisp oval. but a little space were the line was jigsawed.
i always find jigsawing tight to vinyl causes chips to get under the vinyl edge, hence why i make the small outline.
obviously if you have something like white dibond with green oval its going to be noticed.

[Marekdlux]

Nice one Peter.
I would have used my dremmel to cut them out though. 😉 😎
Is that a new food/water bowl I see behind them for the dogs?
-Marek

[Peter Normington]

Good tip Rob, does that mean you end up with a white space around the oval though? there is a bit of white showing in places, but I was going to finish of by either sanding or filing to finish. May even try a spokeshave.
Dont know how it would work on composite, but cant really see a problem.

Funnily enough, I did the small ones first, when i got round to the big one, the cut was almost perfect, So as they say Practice does make perfect.

Peter

[Robert Lambie]

yeah your right peter…
here’s an old demo of similar… although the outline is purposely exaggerated.

http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=17565

[Peter Normington]

Marek, the dogs table was also made from di-alu-compo whatsit, versatile stuff. not new though did it last year.

peter

[John Simpson]

Marek, Have you met peters dogs?…………i have ……….I’m 6’2" tall the dogs are about 7’2" tall ……..and worse still …..there’s TWO of them :yikes:

[Lynn Normington]

they let you eat your dinner in peace L J 😛

Lynn

[John Simpson]

and very nice it was too Lynn 😀 ………….one eye on my dinner…………and one eye on the giants layed next to me 😳

L J

[Lynn Normington]

L J the dogs enjoyed your company as much as we did 😀

Lynn

[Marekdlux]

quote John Simpson:

Marek, Have you met peters dogs?…………i have ……….I’m 6’2″ tall the dogs are about 7’2″ tall ……..and worse still …..there’s TWO of them :yikes:

😀 I’ve seen pictures of them. Massive beasts eh? Gently giants though it seems. Awesome dogs.
-Marek