The MultiCam sign got it's base colours today and is starting to look pretty good already. Tomorrow the glazes will begin which will really make things pop in a hurry. It won't be long until this piece is ready to head out the door.
Plasma magic!
I can clearly remember the time I first fired up an acetylene torch and cut some plate steel to make a custom part. The resulting part worked but it was crude and required lots of grinding to make it passible. Years later I thought it magic as I fired up our hand held plasma cutter and did the same procedure. It was much, much faster and the part came out much better but it was a little shaky and still needed plenty of grinding to get the results I wanted. These days things are a whole lot easier. We have a computerized MultiCam CNC plasma cutter. I drew out the piece and scanned it into the computer. In seconds the file was vectorized. I exported it to the cutting program and pushed the start button on the CNC plasma cutter. It was only a few minutes until the complex part was cut and off the machine. A few seconds with the sanding disk will make it ready to incorporate into the sign. This is pure magic!
I've been working on the railroad
To bring the new modular home onto our property we literally had to build a twenty foot wide road the length of the property. With the home now on it's foundation that means we can dismantle the road. What are we doing with all of that gravel? Well, it is time to build the final roadbed for the 15" gauge train which will soon circle our property. The train has been in progress for better than twelve years. We finally got the engine running last year but we couldn't drive it very far. The track was waiting for the buildings to be complete before it could be installed. In the last few days I've moved enough gravel to complete almost 400 feet of new railway bed grade. The long straight track up the side of the property now curves towards the modular home for about eighty feet. The curve will make the train ride much more interesting and also will give Peter and Hailey a little more backyard space on their property. It won't be long until track laying begins in earnest!
