House of Signs Creates A Bel Signo for Greco’s Pastaria

There may have been a time when Italian food in Colorado was dull, but, as many areas in this scenic state have evolved into tourist havens, demand for sophisticated restaurants has accompanied the droves of visiting hikers, skiiers, snowboarders and the like. Frisco embodies one of Colorado’s prime, tourism-boom examples: although the town’s population numbered less than 3,000 on the 2010 Census, it’s in close proximity to four world-class ski resorts. Thus, tourists aplenty. Jonny Greco, the owner of Frisco’s Greco’s Pastaria, hired House of Signs, also of Frisco, to build a memorable, 4 x 7-ft., 20-in.-thick, two-sided storefront sign.

Roger Cox, House of Signs’ proprietor, designed the sign using Gerber Scientific Products’ Omega® 5.0 software. Periandros Damoulis worked his magic in Vectric’s Aspire 3-D model-fabrication program. Fabricators Cox, Damoulis, Steve Huyler and Mark Bocksch built the sign’s primary elements using Duna’s Corafoam® HDU with MDO backer panels, which was milled on the shop’s Gerber Sabre 408 CNC router, along with many meticulous hours of hand-building and assembling the various interfaces.

House of Signs fashioned the welded-steel frame on a Miller Electric Mfg. Co. MIG-welding system, and built and shaped complementary elements with a Powermatic table saw and Dremel® tools. To amplify the rustic tone that the sign’s lattice pattern and wine casks provide, the shop used metallic paints and clearcoat glazes that were applied in the shop’s paint room. The four-man team also installed the sign using a scissor-lift to hoist the sign into place, and anchored the bracket using lag bolts, TimberLOK® heavy-duty wood screws and Makita drills and impact drivers.