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LonoWood Provides Elegant Signage for Maine Resort

Sign transported to jobsite via ferry

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For 32 years, partners Mark Lono and Terri Wood, co-owners of Albion, NY-based LonoWood Art Co., have fabricated dimensional signage. Since 2008, LonoWood has produced signs for Buffalo, NY-based Hart Hotels. Hart’s most recent development transformed the former Fort McKinley’s military barracks into the Inn at Diamond Cove off the coast of Portland, ME.
Wood created the graphics from scratch using SA Intl.’s FlexiSign® Pro software. She sent her specifications to Elma, NY’s Paul Reile Wood Products, which cut and carved the signface components before returning them to LonoWood for finishing and assembly. The 15-lb.-HDU – it comprises Sign Arts Products’ Sign*Foam® – oval sign measures 34 x 63 in., and is affixed to 6-ft.-tall posts. Its support bracket measures 90.5 in. tall. The sign’s layers were epoxied into place.
LonoWood fabricator Shawn Mosher carved the gull wings by hand with woodworking equipment, and created the illusion of the bird flying underneath the letters. The shop decorated the panel with Benjamin Moore exterior-latex, low-luster-finish paint; for contrast, LonoWood painted the letters with high-gloss, automotive paint, and gilded the bird with 23k goldleaf.
Buffalo’s Jentsch and Co. custom-bent the bracket, and Bob Ralph, a Rochester, NY welder, finished forming it. The post “sleeves”, which were routed on the front side to create a raised panel, comprise Komacel PVC that’s supported by a 2 x 8 post and PVC pipe that slides into a galvanized-steel pipe. A custom-welded collar bolts to the steel pipe, which was set into the concrete foundation.
“The logistics of shipping components by ferry provided a challenge,” Wood said. “It was interesting to see the cart with the sign strapped to it on a crane, floating in the air as it was offloaded from the ferry!”
 

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