The 25th of november we had our first Solid Surface course at Baars & Bloemhoff distributer of LG-HIMACS® for the Netherlands. For those of you who don’t know what Solid Surface materials are please take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_surface. Solid Surface will be one of our main materials giving us the freedom to create all kinds of free-form jointless products, interiors and objects for our clients. The main producers of Solid Surface are high tech companies like Dupont® and LG®. The material is mainly used for kitchen and bathroom design although we will make custom productions for these markets our main focus is on specialities like freeform elements. Our workshop and machines will be specially suited for taking on these kinds of jobs. Besides the machines the workforce also needs to be specialized. For this purpose we had this first exploration with LG-HIMACS®.
In the morning our instructor Sjaco fed us with all the ins and outs and do’s and don’ts of the material. In the afternoon we had to practice with the material. The main item was to glue pieces jointless together. Ernest turned out to be the best assembler of the pack who after sanding the piece had a perfectly jointless element. This element was polished until it wash perfectly shinning. One of the nice things about Solid Surface is that you can finish it in all kinds of levels from matt or satin to really shiny. If a stain is left on the material you can just sand it lightly and the stain will disappear. LG® gives a 15 year warranty on finished products.
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