Metamark 7 Series is a premium grade polymeric calendered sign making vinyl featuring a soft handle 70 micron face film, high grade permanent solvent based adhesive and a performance-tuned lay-flat liner. 7 Series offers excellent cutting and weeding performance and is easy to work with.
Whitby based SD Signs has used the Metamark M7 swatch to great effect and given a new lease of life to a projecting sign from Botham’s bakery. Far from being business as usual, the projecting sign needed to be refurbished with modern materials while retaining the character of an era long past.
Comprising an oval-like panel secured at its edges within a framework fabricated in embellished wrought metalwork, the sign is rooted in the period beyond its making and sensitive to modern interference. Renovation of the tired looking sign would have been difficult to the point of being completely impractical in-situ and so SD Signs removed it and took it to a more comfortable working environment.
One of the great things about old signs made from wrought metal is that weathering just serves to impart what we regard as character today. Working on such signs is a question of balance. Material that is badly corroded needs to be attended to but not to the point where the sign starts to look as though it was made yesterday.
SD Signs’ restrained recovery of the metalwork has given the whole sign a protective coating of a modern, durable enamel that does not impart much more than protection. The sign still looks like the work of art it was before SD Signs got to grips with it.
The sign panel needed replacing and SD Signs delivered a solution that casts the sign in the right character. The panel is securely wrapped and covered in a durable layer of Metamark M7. It is a spot-on shade of midnight blue drawn from the latest product swatch. Seen in the context lent to it by the metalwork, the effect is 100% convincing. The contrasting design elements are cut and applied using Metamark M7 in gold. The ornamentation in the design reflect the wrought work and the whole ensemble now looks forward to years without any further work being needed.
Sytech Supplies are the official distributor of Metamark products in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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