3/1/12 - Handmade by Gary placed 3rd in Signs of the Times Magazine's Annual Sign Competition under the Commercial Sign Category. Winners included designers from China, Australia, Canada and the United States. A good friend of ours, Dan Sawatzky of Yarrow, BC, Canada won 2nd place in the Sign Systems Category. Congratulations Dan! Photos of the winning entries can be seen in the March edition of the Magazine.
Merry Christmas!
New Millermactic 211 Mig Welder and Hypertherme 30 Plasma Cutter
This year I gave the business a present, a new Millermactic 211 Mig Welder and Hypertherme 30 Plasma Cutter. We purchased the steel welding and cutting equipment to allow us to build bigger, stronger signs. Most of the time the steel will be used to build Interior frameworks to our signs allowing them to be bigger, thicker, heavier and stronger. It would also be fun to make some decorative signs and hangers as well.
Tipsy Wins Top Honors from Sign & Digital Graphics Magazine
Tipsy Moose Tavern received an honorable mention in S&DG’s Annual Portfolio Design Contest. First place went to a good friend of ours, Roger Cox from House of Signs in Frisco Co. Congratulations Roger. A photo of Tipsy will be featured in the December edition of the magazine.
Forming the Tree
The next stage in forming the tree is to bend rings of different diameters and weld them onto the square tube skeleton.
Community Garden Concrete Tree Post
Today we will be working on the Concrete tree post for the Community Garden Project. We created a rough paper pattern for the tree, cut and welded up a steel frame structure.