Cutting technique

A Sign Shop on One Table: Cutting, Grooving and Folding in One Setup

How a two-person sign shop gets a fascia, a set of letters and a returned edge off one bed without moving the panel.

September 18, 2026

Cutting technique

Fabricating ACM Panels: A Shop Guide From Sheet to Installed Cassette

Cut, groove, fold, rivet, hang. The whole sequence for a composite cassette, and where each step goes wrong.

September 18, 2026

Cutting technique

V-Grooving Composite Panel: How a Flat Sheet Becomes a Folded Return

How a 90 degree groove turns a flat composite sheet into a folded corner with no seam, and the four ways it fails.

September 18, 2026