Samples made by Technical Finishing Services

Gloss / Sheen Paint Display samples   Many Paint Mfgs buy their sheen selector samples from TFS. In this day & age you want your customer to see how their sheen selection, affects color. The higher the sheens is, the more light reflective properties you'll have causing the dark colors to "look darker" and the light colors to be more "vibrant & pronounced-looking". While you convey that to your customer (and since it can be a large chunk of real estate on your display signage), and gives folks the impression they are viewing your actual paint product --- you want them  to be as nice looking as possible. We can mill the moulding used for these samples to whatever shape you think best shows these reflective properties. We'll also use our paint system and match your colors and sheens. Paint mfg. customers know our paint system is a furniture-grade coating. Which means it is formulated to withstand the human touch and is typically much more durable than standard latex wall paint. The furniture-grade coatings will stand up much better (especially on the lowest sheens) to all the touching the samples will receive vs using actual wall paint. And every knows, folks can't help but reach out and touch the paint samples. Our paint, combined with the the unique way we finish the samples will mimic the look, texture and feel of your actual wall paint perfectly.

Automotive sampling Spraying automotive multi-step urethane paint on to paper presents many challenges. A special paper was selected (after many tests) and it won't curl after the actual automotive-type coatings are applied. Also a special adhesion promoter was selected so the coated sheets can be cut down into sample sizes and have nice, sharp clean edges while the knife cuts through the paper and the multiple layers of coatings.

Stain samples sold to different wood industries Customer wanted to show their stain color selection on both veneer-over-MDF and solid lumber sampling. A solid maple, dove-tailed wood box was designed and shows off a laser-engraved company logo embossed on the box's front face. We also designed the boxes to have a slide-in dust-lid to protect all the samples from dust and uv lighting damage.

Exterior Stains Customer wanted to show their exterior stain colors in a fan deck format with the chips made of real Western Red Cedar. We sourced the Cedar log and had it converted to veneer, finished the sheets and those veneer sheets were shipped to Colwell Indiana were they chipped and mounted the real wood veneer to paper stock and were made into fan decks.

Furniture stain samples We can take the veneer-over-MDF stain samples we make for you and collate sets in any manner that you need them grouped by. Such as colors grouped into fan decks by wood species,  standard or premium finishes, different collections, etc. Stain samples can be easily added to this fan deck as the aluminum screw post is expandable.

Retail stain and clears Customer wanted their stain color samples shown on pine, oak and maple solid lumber. In this case, we produced the color samples using their supplied stains and clear coats. We procured the lumber and finished and then  cut-to-size each sample and packaged them. The samples can have tape applied to the backs so samples are ready to mount to your display right out of the box.

Exterior stains Customer had many exterior solid and semi-trnasparent stain colors available and wanted a compact master catalog that homebuilders and painting contractors could use to show the entire color palette offering.

 

Exterior stains This particular fan deck shows their Semi-Transparent colors on 3 different types of wood (green-treated Pine, Redwood and Cedar)  to show how the wood color underneath affects the overall coloration. The solid colors are shown on Western Red Cedar.

Specialty coatings Customer supplied their  stone paint product and we sprayed out on to sheets of base color coated paper by TFS and fashioned into these take-home mini fan decks.

 

Garage floor coatings Customer supplied their floor paints and we coated to boards and cut to sample size for mounting on to their display. This particular card has samples and product information on both sides.

 

Retail stains Store display showing stain color offerings that are available, as well as their clear sheen offerings. The color samples were finished on an Oak & Pine veneer product, cut to size and mounted to display panels.

Clear coat products Customer wanted a solid piece of Oak showing a large surface area of their 2 gloss versions of polyurethane.

 

Kitchen Cabinet Mfg. The customers needed samples of their many glaze-over-stain finishes that are quite popular nowadays. We pulled a profile from one of their most popular door styles and milled the solid lumber. The goal was to show how the fine glazing highlights “hang up” in the recesses on a kitchen cabinet door and drawer fronts.

Exterior Stain displays Built from solid pine and has a nice traditional look versus the slick plastic-look so often seen in today's marketplace. Versatile too - the dealer can unscrew the ends off of the display, to update the display samples with their new colors. Then slide in a new paper signage which shows the color names.

We can work with directly with you and/or your graphics / marketing department. Or ask your display company to contact us and we can provide just the stains and/or paint samples ready to mount.  All our display projects are typically custom-built to give your product it's own unique look. Thanks for looking at a very brief collection of sampling campaigns we have been part of over the last 30+ years. We look forward to helping you with yours! Technical Finishing Services, Inc. 7541 Commerce Lane NE Fridley, MN 55432 Phone: (763) 571-3902 Click here to return to our home page. © 2001-2021 Colwell - Technical Finishing Services, Inc.