The Very Last White River and Northern Railroad

[Point353]

(Neon for a roadside dog shack is a bit overkill, IMO.)

[DKS]

I should have known...

OK, now find one in the backwoods of New Hampshire around 1955, smarty-pants... 

[DKS]

Coming along. LED and smoke unit installed, the platform added, and the main structure painted.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Shouldn't that be "Ed's Dirty Dogs"?  Where's Darcy?

DFF

Watch your wallet.

[wazzou]

Shouldn't that be "Ed's Dirty Dogs"?  Where's Darcy?

DFF

Up your a$$ and to the left?   

Okay, so nobody watches Impractical Jokers apparently.

[packers#1]

You were down at Eds Dirty Dog eating wieners with your pals the other day....

Did ya’s everrrrr notice...that DKS has some many minutes

[DKS]

Today, things reached the 90% mark with Ed's, although the main sign represented much of the work. I printed the main sign—as well as all of the other signs—on self-adhesive paper, and applied it to some micro-ply. After cutting it out with a knife, I ground away the irregular areas around the dog's head with a Dremel cutoff disc, then hit all of the edges of the sign with a black Sharpie to eliminate all of the white paper edges.





Having worked as a sign painter, I knew this one required more than the usual amount of bracing (above), which I assembled on a roof made of batten sheet styrene (below). The roof must remain removable so that the smoke generator can be refilled.





The canopy over the order window was next. Somewhere along the way I got it in my head to decorate it with a string of Christmas lights, for which I used five colors of pre-wired 0201 SMD LEDs (below).



The 40 LED wires were run through a slot sliced in the wall over the ordering window with a Dremel cutoff disc (below).



The final touch was a set of shelf brackets under the shelf below the ordering window (below). These were cut from etched brass filigree.





This brought Ed's to the 90% completion mark; the rest of the work will involve wiring for the Christmas lights and smoke unit. Oh, and the EAT sign will be mounted on poles and erected streetside (the OPEN sign won't be used—it was just too much).

[davefoxx]

Somewhere along the way I got it in my head to decorate it with a string of Christmas lights . . . .

Haha!!! I see what you did there!

DFF

[DKS]

Haha!!! I see what you did there!

That's good, 'cause I don't...

[CRL]

Really like the sign... it almost looks 3D.

[Point353]

Are made-in-New Hampshire Squamscot beverages on the menu?
http://www.nhsoda.com/Home.asp

[DKS]

Are made-in-New Hampshire Squamscot beverages on the menu?
http://www.nhsoda.com/Home.asp

No, but I can add them.

Frappes are on the menu, by the way...

[DKS]

Haha!!! I see what you did there!

Oh, now I get it... I can be so dense...

[DKS]

Ed's has been wired up. Beneath the structure is a PC board where each individual LED is connected to a resistor. Then, because LEDs of different colors have different electrical requirements, all of the resistors belonging to a common LED color receive an additional resistor selected to equalize the brightness of all colors.





I have not yet worked up the nerve to try the smoke generator. But soon...

[Chris333]

That is one packed cubic centimetre!