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Atlas Signs and Plaques Introduces A New Product, The Salmon Address Plaque

New Salmon Fish Address Plaque

Rising To The Bait

This is No Fish Story

The talented designers at America’s favorite place for plaques, Atlas Signs and Plaques have done it again! Rising to the occasion with another new and unique Address Plaque. This time, a fish, most specifically, a Salmon leaps over your address numbers showering your home or cottage with a look that you won’t find anywhere else.

Our Salmon Address Plaque takes the fish off the hook and places it at your door, post, or gate.

Ranging from the Pacific to the Atlantic, the mighty Salmon has been honored in folklore, and relished for both food and sport, and now it is available as home adornment. From Alaska to Ireland and back to the Great Lakes, what a way to add some flair to the homestead. Even city slickers can make a splash with this piece of art.

The 8-step-process applies real metal to a durable HDU base giving your Atlas sign or plaque the ageless beauty of real cast metal without the weight, cost, or limitations of castings. Atlas Signs and Plaques will not rust, rot, fade, or promote insects and are suitable for exterior applications.

Handcrafted in the USA using American Materials and Labor.

How to get free HDU, That’s Right, Free High Densiity Polyurethane Sign Foam

No catches, no tricks, free, you only pay the postage. Alright, here is the straight skinny. These are our scraps.

30 pound, High Density Polyurethane Sign Foam is used as the substrate for the beautiful metal coated signs and plaques created by America’s favorite place for signs, Atlas Signs and Plaques. Although we try to utilize every square inch to avoid waste and inefficiency, there are some pieces that just are not large enough to use. So, in keeping with our environmental policy of reusing, recycling, and reclaiming, we keep our landfill use to a minimum by giving away our Sign Foam cutoffs for free.

Just go to the Supplies and Samples page at Atlas Signs and Plaques. You will see the free products listed. Just click and order. This offer is only good until the scraps are gone. Then we remove the offer until more scrap is generated.

HDU is a wonderful product that has almost replaced wood in the signage industry. It is waterproof and will not warp, split, rot, decompose, or crack. But wait, it gets better. HDU’s lack of grain makes it a dream to hand carve, machine, sand, and rout. Its workability makes it a great material choice for model making and prototyping. It is super material to use with with your CarveWright or CompUCarve machine. Order some today. Good for us, good for you, and good for our environment.

These are scraps and we make no promises as to sizes,  so don’t expect a 4 x 8 sheet, and please don’t ask for specific sizes. The pieces can be glued using a urethane glue such as Gorilla Glue. If you would like larger pieces, we will sell them to you from the same page as the free scraps.

Stolen Bronze Plaques, a Worldwide Problem – How to Protect Your Investment

Economical historic plaque

Fool the Crooks

With scrap bronze fetching up to $1.70 per pound, thieves are making your plaques a target.

While you can’t totally stop criminal activity, you can make your valuables a less tempting target by installing plaques from Atlas Signs and Plaques. While the price of foundry-cast bronze plaques is often over $450 per square foot, plaques from Atlas can be under $150 per square foot. The key is that plaques from Atlas look foundry-cast, but they are not. Atlas Plaques are created from a space-age man made material, and then coated with real metal that has all of the characteristics of the cast plaque, but at a much lower cost. Result is that thieves get something that even the most unscrupulous scrap dealer won’t buy. That is if they steal it at all. If they do steal or vandalize your plaques, replacement will be far less expensive.

Here is another idea for important plaques. Have Atlas create a replacement for your original, hang the Atlas plaque, and place the original in safe storage until the allure of this crime is reduced.

The news is currently awash in stories of the theft of any scrap metal of value. Thieves are stripping aluminum siding and gutters, copper wire, and brass and bronze plaques and turning them into cash to fuel their addictions. Abandoned homes, businesses, cemeteries, pumping stations, parks, government buildings, churches, bridges, and historic sites are tempting targets. Thieves are even stripping occupied dwellings passing up entertainment devices to strip the copper wire and plumbing. It must be easier to sell and harder to trace. But the best targets are plaques because they are heavy for their size and usually easy to remove.

We hate the concept of accepting crime and having to remove temptation to protect assets, but think of it having the last laugh by outwitting the criminals.

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Time Is Running Out!

Order your signs and plaques by MIDNIGHT on December 14 for delivery by Christmas at Atlas Signs and Plaques!

Atlas can create your custom gift and ship it standard USPS if we have your order by December 14th. That allows just time enough for our staff to complete your project to ship by December 21st. If the post office does their job, you should have it at your door on or before December 24th.

We try to make your last minute shopping enjoyable with custom personalized gift signs and plaques that show that you care. Order by midnight tonight and we will meet your deadline.

Still Time to Order Your Custom Plaque For Christmas, Order by December 14th

How late can I order a custom sign or plaque as a gift and have it arrive for Christmas?

The easy answer is that Atlas can create your custom gift and ship it standard USPS if we have your order by December 14th. That allows just time enough for our staff to complete your project to ship by December 21st. If the post office does their job, you should have it at your door on or before December 24th.

Obviously time is important, so getting your order to us sooner is best.

There are some ways to squeeze a couple of more days, and all you would have to do is select a FedEx delivery option that makes it work. Atlas is planning on working extra hard and long hours to avoid disappointment, and we will do our finest to complete everything. Please let us know that your plaque is a Christmas Gift in your communications, and we will let you know if we can do it on a case-by-case basis.

For the big and little guys, we suggest one of our personalized Man Cave plaques or our “No Girls Allowed” Signs. For the ladies, how about designating their special place with a personalized plaque that has special meaning.  Favorites for the home would include our Craftsman Style Address Number Plaque, or a whimsical No Solicitors Sign (which we agree is definitely not in the Christmas spirit, but is very necessary).

Have a golfer on the gift list, try our 19th Hole Sign. Have a veteran or someone currently serving to honor, pick from our Military and Service Plaques and add to their pride, and yours too.

We try to make your last minute shopping enjoyable with custom personalized gift signs and plaques that show that you care. Order early and we will meet your deadline. And, a big, Merry Christmas from all of us at Atlas Signs and Plaques.