They’re not fancy but I am carving signs for our many conservation properties in town to replace the wooden signs that are rotting. One of the volunteers installing the signs sent me before / after shots.
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How do you like working with Color core and where do you buy it Please.
Thank you
Gregg
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Buyplastic.com has a wide variety of colors and sizes and ships fast in my area.
Here are a few of the ColorCore projects I have done.
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CICworkshop
limited selection, but very nice prices.
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Colorcore is pretty easy to work with. The biggest issue during carving is getting rid of the load of plastic shavings (I reserve the dust collector for wood).
What folks haven’t mentioned is the shipping cost. We buy whole 3/4" sheets from the factory, cut to the size we use (4’ x 6"). Because none of the wholesalers in the NE stock colorcore it has to be shipped up from Florida and that can double the cost because its large and heavy. Working with King Plastics sales guy we located a local marine manufacturing company that had regular shipments of other King products and were able to piggy-back on their shipments to save $$
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Nice work. I’d love to use Colorcore but the delivered price is prohibitive for a hobbyist. I buy sheets of PVC from Home Depot, cut them up to manageable sizes, and spray paint them before carving. That works best when the background is color and the carvings are white, One tip is to use matte spray paint and then hit it with a gloss or satin clear coat when done. That helps prevent the paint from gumming up the bit.
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