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[mklafehn]

Tom,

Nice job on the letters.

What bit did you use for these? Been wanting to try some metallic faced letters, but have ? about how to glue the substrates together and if they glue will gum up the bit after just a couple of letters.

[Big-Tex]

1" Gator foam wit aluminum lay up, purchased at Allied plastics.
This one is brushed so you can nest with rotation set to 180 deg only or 360.

[Big-Tex]

More letters I did this weekend.





This one I did while back with some inspiration of shopboters.

[joewino]

Thomas - the "S" is upside down.

[ken_rychlik]

That made me spit out my coffee Raymond.

[Big-Tex]

Raymond I realize that.

[joewino]

Thomas...so, why didn't you turn it around

[joe]

That's OK Thomas. Sometimes when Raymond misses his afternoon nap he gets grumpy. I don't know how many times I've neglected using the spell checker and catches a typo. That's an opne invite for him to accosts me. Sometimes he looses the direction of the topic.


By the way, when are you going to visit our shop with some of your samples?


Joe Crumley
www.normansignco.com

[joewino]

I've got my eye on you too, Crumley. So...watch it.

[scootie]

For anyone using the OpenOffice Suite from Sun Systems (its a free download, just Google "Open Office" for it) I have developed a spreadsheet estimating form. It's free to anyone that wants to use it, it should import into MS Excel? Try it, I don't use Excel as OpenOffice does everything I occasionally need for spreadsheets. Anyway, I created this one for estimating the cost for cutting letters in PVC.

It's easy to use and adapt to your own price ranges.
The light yellow cells are for plugging in your materials and known labor prices. You can change these on the fly as prices change.
The light orange cells are for sizes or number of labor steps or number of linear inches to cut. If you use CorelDraw there is a macro plugin that allows you to measure the linear path length of a bunch of letters. Look on Macro Monster, it's also a free download.
At the bottom column of light green cells, there is a light orange cell for putting in your mark-up %.
It totals as you go and gives an accurate way to estimate. It depends on your ability to put in the correct parameters for materials and your labor cost, the download is set with my costs and shop rates of apr. $65 per hour. The spreadsheet file is posted on my website, the forum does not support the file extension of .ODS for spreadsheets.
www.elliott-design.net/PVC-letters.htm