MONUMENT SIGN BY JEFF WOOTEN
AT TRAILS EDGE rails Edge is a brand-new apartment community in Maplewood, Minnesota, and their owners wanted a monument sign at the entrance of their property. So they turned to North Star Signs & Engraving to provide this scenery-complementing fauxwood and faux-stone sign. North Star Signs & Engraving, Inc., is a full-service, “one-stop” shop based in St. Augusta, Minnesota. The familyowned company, which has now been in business for sixteen years, works on dimensional lettering, vehicle wraps, banners, and more for the commercial sign 16
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market (and general contractors). They also manufacture ADA-compliant signage in-house. Their shop floor features two new Hermes Gravograph IS8000 computerized engravers, as well as an IS400 and a 30-by-50-inch 80-watt laser cutter. There’s also Roland DGA’s new TrueVIS VG2 fifty-four-inch printer and cold laminator along with a twenty-four-inch Gerber plotter. The ownership group of Trails Edge had worked with the sign company on many other projects over the years, and being satisfied with those results, they
sought them out immediately to bring their monumental vision to life. “They came to us wanting help designing something that would fit within their budget,” says North Stars Signs & Engraving Co-Owner Josh Laudenbach. Laudenbach and his sign company had never worked with this developer before. “He showed us a drawing of two sign ideas that [the Trails Edge owners] wanted,” he says, “so we priced them out as a lit aluminum sign with push-thru letters and real wood accents.” This initial pricing out went through a wholesaler yet ended up being over the signshop.com
Photo: North Star Signs & Engraving.
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