Keith Outten
07-29-2004, 11:23 AM
Although it took forever to get Terry's sign finished it really turned out nice. Several people have seen it and all of them gave me the "Wow, that sign is awesome" response so I'm pretty sure at this point that TH will be happy.
Terry's sign is two pieces of half inch Corian, a dark gray backer and a white top piece. This was my first time using the Corian adhesive kit, I was a bit unsure concerning the application time and it probably took much longer to setup my template and mix the adhesive than it should have. I took extra care since I didn't know how much working time I had, good thing as it was stuck almost immediately.
It took about 3 hours to prep and polish the gray backing piece, I used a ROS for the flat surface and buffing wheels for the edges. The white piece was left unpolished as it provides more contrast. The engraved area took about two hours in the machine and since I don't have a ShopBot CNC router as yet I used a band saw to cut the pieces and spindle sander to clean-up the edges. I haven't weighed Terry's sign yet but it is very heavy, in the future I will be sure to cut and remove the center of the backer which should reduce the weight substantially.
Jackie will be shipping Terry's sign hopefully tomorrow. Terry I'm sorry it took so long to complete your project...I'm afraid that the Freedom Pens Project has just about taken over my workshop these days. Now on to the Old Rebel's sign :)
Terry's sign is two pieces of half inch Corian, a dark gray backer and a white top piece. This was my first time using the Corian adhesive kit, I was a bit unsure concerning the application time and it probably took much longer to setup my template and mix the adhesive than it should have. I took extra care since I didn't know how much working time I had, good thing as it was stuck almost immediately.
It took about 3 hours to prep and polish the gray backing piece, I used a ROS for the flat surface and buffing wheels for the edges. The white piece was left unpolished as it provides more contrast. The engraved area took about two hours in the machine and since I don't have a ShopBot CNC router as yet I used a band saw to cut the pieces and spindle sander to clean-up the edges. I haven't weighed Terry's sign yet but it is very heavy, in the future I will be sure to cut and remove the center of the backer which should reduce the weight substantially.
Jackie will be shipping Terry's sign hopefully tomorrow. Terry I'm sorry it took so long to complete your project...I'm afraid that the Freedom Pens Project has just about taken over my workshop these days. Now on to the Old Rebel's sign :)