WELCOME!


It is hard to believe that it was almost ten years ago I witnessed a CNC router in action for the very first time. I was fascinated with what I saw and simply had to have one! Although I had been in the creative end of the three dimensional sign business for most of my life I didn't really know what I would do with one - but I just knew it could do fantastic stuff.

Through extensive research and LOTS of hands-on practice I quickly found out that my MultiCam router was capable of just about anything imaginable.This journal will chronicle that journey to date and continue each week with two or three entries as I continue to explore just what is possible with this wonderful tool... -dan

Saturday, March 20, 2010

UNLIMITED TEXTURES!



What I loved most about the MultiCam was it's ability to create any texture imaginable. I've long believed our signs need to tell a story - to keep in theme with the project we are doing. Years ago we were all enthralled with the ability to sandblast wood, and create wonderful reliefs of the beautiful grains which were present in the wood. Now by using bitmaps we can recreate these same textures in High Density Urethane. We can in fact create any pattern imaginable, easily and quickly. We can do it without wearing one of those nasty sandblast hoods too!

Over the course of a year I made up bitmap files for more than a hundred textures - all proven on real projects we ran on our MultiCam. We now offer them as a collection to help others create textured work on their machines. Go to our website and look under TEXTURES. They are pure magic!

-dan