Trade show exhibit for Sanmar.

[Team One Display Services]

Here are a few pics of an exhibit we just shipped to Chicago. The majority of the structure is constructed from 3/4" birch plywood cut on the ShopBot. We also cut all the slat walls on the 'bot as well.

Here you can see the initial assembly at our shop.
http://www.teamoneexhibits.com/picts/sanmar-009.jpg

This is a view from the front showing the channel cut text for the Sanmar logo.
http://www.teamoneexhibits.com/picts/sanmar-010.jpg

Another view of the logo. The text is cut from foam faced with a blue laminate mounted to a .125" clear acrylic backer so that the letters "float" in the space. The returns were sprayed blue.
http://www.teamoneexhibits.com/picts/sanmar-011.jpg

And here is a view of the exhibit on the trade show floor just before the show opened.
http://www.teamoneexhibits.com/picts/sanmar-013.jpg

[myxpykalix]

very cool...how much time nd effort went into creting this?

[Team One Display Services]

Thanks! Once the design was approved fabrication took about 4 weeks.

We went through approximately 30 - 35 sheets of birch. All of the components of the exhibit are modular so it can be assembled and disassembled over and over again to be used at multiple trade shows.

[john_l]

Very nice Larry. Nice design and fabrication. All of the 3/4 2/s birch I have been getting recently has been cupped, I don't know whats going on.

[Team One Display Services]

Thanks! I'm not sure who we ordered the last couple pallets of birch from - but we've switched suppliers a few times in an effort to find a consistent (and flat) product.

[bleeth]

In an effort to be "competitive" many suppliers have switched from US or Canadian cabinet ply to chinese stuff. Cupping is a mild word for it. I expect, like most of what they do, after a few years the quality will improve as it did with South American ply, but until then I fear we are all going to have to live with this garbage. My latest project required FSC cert and LEED acceptability and therefore we are using US produced product. It is darned expensive but every sheet lays flat on the mill and cuts like a dream. It's poplar core. Only the Lord knows what is in the import! One of my reps told me they now carry 2 grades of import and I tried a couple sheets of the less expensive. AWFUL. Now they tell me the chinese are about to ship the FSC product. I shudder.

[mcgoo]

with 40 years in the cabinet business I have never seen ply as bad as this-I always ask for non-Chinese plywood