A customer has requested 2 Fleur de lis keys to made from Extira for placement above his garage door openings. The pieces will be center of the overhead door and a brick soldier course will butt each side of the key. The key size will be 10” in height...
Articles from February 2011
LOUISIANA PLAQUES
The award that got us into customizable acrylic awards is the Louisiana Plaque. We started making these for a few corporations about 5 years ago and we produce between 50-100 a year. While the Louisiana Plaque is the biggest award we make it’s not restricted to the usual 11...
CHILD’S ROCKING CHAIR
I decided to make my little granddaughter a rocking chair. She is a mess…at the ripe old age of 1…she is climbing and into everything. I thought if I made her a rocking chair, she might actually sit still for a minute!! The first picture is the cad file....
TREE MEMORIAL TILE
For today’s project we were working on a tile that’s going to be used as a gift to a church. The tile will be placed in front of a tree donated as a gift. The tile used is a 12 inch by 12 inch black marble tile. Once we...
ALLIGATOR TEXTURED GUITAR
Project produced with EnRoute Pro and CNC router by MultiCam. This is a project we did a while back; I think you will find it interesting. One of our customers has an alligator products business. This customer is also a musician with friends in the music industry. We were...
DE-NAILED PINE CORBELS
We made corbels today…these will provide support for the mantle in our earlier project. The dimensions for the 2 corbels are… 10 ¾” tall, 5 ½” wide with a depth of 8 ½”. The body of the corbels consist of 4 pieces…the 2 center pieces are 2” thick &...
WEDDING WINE GLASSES
Today we were working a pair of glasses that are going to be a gift for a special someones’ wedding. After we measure the circumference of the wine glass we can get started in producing a design. The only program we used for these glasses was Corel Draw which...
DE-NAILED MANTLE
A customer requested we mill a de-nailed pine beam for use as a rustic fireplace mantle. The beam measurements were…length 108”, width 12” and a thickness of 6 ½”. The finished mantel would be…length 66”, width 11” and a thickness of 5 ¼”. We spent several hours removing...
GATE PROJECT FINAL
We finished our gate project today. After removing the clamps, we ran the pieces through our sander. This removed the glue residue and evened up any height differences at the joints. The next step involved cutting the arc for the outside radius doors. Since all the gates were pairs,...
VALENTINES GIFT
Susan & I have been married a long time…30+ years to be exact. What do you give a wonderful lady that has put up with you for so long? Well I thought I would try something special. I decided to take our wedding picture & laser etch the image...