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Construction encompassed 150 total man-hours and took nearly three weeks to complete. Originally Xpressive settled on a six-week deadline to complete the sign, however permitting problems took three weeks out of this schedule. “But we did whatever we had to do to get it done,” says Mattingly. One challenge involved engineering the sign to figure out all wind load variations. “It sits down on the inside of a hill,” describes Mattingly. It was also a little difficult to organize two or three people working on separate sides of the sign to achieve the same exact look as the other. “One side might’ve had deeper grooves than the next,” says Mattingly, “but we were able to correct this.” But the biggest challenge was convincing the customer that Xpressive’s hand-drawn rendering could be turned into a reality. “Nobody around here had seen anything like that, so they had no comparison,” remarks Mattingly, noting the owner was almost daring them to see if they really could do this.
of what his shop likes to do—one-off, three-dimensional artistic-driven signage. “This project was a labor of love,” he says. “We love trying to figure out how to do them. “And it’s even more fun to figure out the challenge of what we can do next.”
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both for the restaurant owner and the sign maker. “My wife and I were recently dining out, and two people came up and told me how much they enjoyed the sign,” he says. “And our waitress told us that she had her picture taken with it.” For Mattingly, this is a prime example
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Xpressive started with a four-by-four concrete pad and rebar-enforced it. “We used j-hooks as our bottom mounting bracket and an eight-inch-square tube post with a half-inch plate at the bottom for molding,” explains Mattingly. The actual sign itself has a two-inchsquare tube frame all the way throughout the inside of it and then protruding off the top of the sides so it could connect to the post. “We cut holes in the post and ran the sign all the way through the post to the other side,” explains Mattingly. “We had double welds on each side and put a plate on it.” When attached to the pole, the eleven-foot-tall sign actually stands sixteenand-a-half feet tall. Its height is necessary because it sits back off the state route a bit around a bend.
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