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I have been given the opportunity to do a sign for a popular theme park Follow along as it comes to life.

The Architects for this project did the actual design for this piece and I merely scanned it into Enroute and started tracing over the shapes to build my cut files.
This piece is two sided and has multiple components.
The Shield, the Ribbon, the ribbon ends, the bell, and the holly leaves and vine.

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The first part of the process after the design work is done, is to route out the backs of the two layers of 2" High Density Urethane (HDU) Foam to accept the steel frame that will support the sign and give me a attachment point for the holly vine that will hang below.

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The great part with working with this HDU is that it wiil not burn, so welding things in place for alignment purposes is no problem.

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This shows the attachment point for the Holly vine.

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Then they get flipped and the face gets routed.
If you look closely at the edge of this "rough pass", the sign is dome shaped, the middle of the Sheild were the "t" is is a full 2" thick and the outer edges are 1/2" thick.
When the 2 layers are joined the middle of the sign will be 4" thick and the edges will be 1" thick.

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I've built another file and created the Ribbon with the raised text.
Not Shown are the 4 pieces that were cut out for the ribbon ends.

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Here is a sneek peak at the mocked up sign at this stage.
As you can see here the ribbon is recessed into the shield.

Now some hand work and carving to give it some life.

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