With the giant drum now out of the shop there was at last some room to put the finishing touches on the sign for the Peach sign. It is one tasty looking sign!
Double treat
Just about everything we design and build is something new for us, something we have never done before. At the very least each new job pushes the boundaries of past projects. We don’t always succeed on our first attempt but we do always get it right eventually, and without going over budget for our customers. One of our current signs in production is for an ice cream shop. It features oversized, dimensional ice cream treats on both sides of the name plate. Nothing is out of the ordinary with this request, except the sign needed to be lightweight, easily dismantled and tucked away each evening because of its location. A welded aluminum frame made the frame lighter than our usual welded steel armatures. We formed the woodgrain over this frame to minimize weight. We even used a sculpting epoxy that was twenty percent lighter than normal in our effort to sculpt the lightweight but very durable ice cream treats. We applied the epoxy as thin as possible but when I was finished, the delicious looking treats were a little too heavy to lug up a ladder safely. The solution was to start over and sculpt lower dimensioned, half models which weighed in at about one third of the weight of the fully dimensional ones. Looking from the front of the sign it is hard to tell the difference. (the upper ones are the flatter ones) Our client will get both sets of ice cream treats as a bonus (no extra charge). We have no doubt he’ll put them to good use.
Ice cream delight
We’ve been asked to create a new sign for a world famous landmark - The Peach Ice Cream Shop in Penticton, BC. They concoct the absolutely most wonderful ice cream cones and crazy shakes that defy description. The sign project isn’t overly large by our standards but it is very fun and definitely challenging. We’re creating some oversized ice cream treat replicas that will be mounted on each side of a dimensional sign. Sadly, we are using photos for reference rather than the real thing… but no worry for I’ll check the sign for accuracy as I sample some treats this coming summer!
