Some recent work

[SignProPlus-Alex]

All done in house. Tire is 98"x20". Made out of ACM, XPS foam, polyurea coated with cartridge gun.

 

[Kottwitz-Graphics]

Nice detail on that tire. How was that done?

 

[DirtyD]

That is cool... Any progress photos?

 

[SignProPlus-Alex]

It is pretty low tech. Inside frame is two half's made out ACM with plywood for rigidity and industrial expanded foam as a filler. On top of than 2" xps foam (pink insulation), tread is routed from 1" foam to copy tires my costumer sells. Round profile was done with belt sander. Hard cote is one coat of epoxy resin brushed by hand and two coats of polyurea sprayed. Two half's was joined around posts and tread was wrap around to cover seams.

 

[Billct2]

Nice

 

[Gino]

 

[David Wright]

Are you saying you hate this work? Resenting work is not a good way to live.

 

[SignManiac]

Great outside the box thinking

 

[Marlene]

really nicely done. if you hadn't said you made the tire, I would have thought you lettered a real one.

 

[SignProPlus-Chip]

This was one of those projects that was great to see come together in the end. Don't get me wrong, it all looked good along the way, but that moment where the tire was mounted on the pylons and we started adding the tread....it just REALLY made the whole thing look legit.

The company has a tire rack just a few feet from the sign, and those tire have the tread pattern we copied for the replica. Seeing both at the same time was kind of neat, especially after having worked off of nothing more than photos.

Kudos to Alex for figuring out the fabrication end of it. Now I have to design harder stuff for him to build

 

[Saw Trax]

Pretty sweet - love the tire tread!

 

[Z SIGNS]

Nice work !

More fun than making stickers