About the JAG Logo

Janelle and Myself started Jag Engineering on January 2 of 1980. We received an offer of a steady customer added to the skills acquired in an apprenticeship at Red Ball Pattern Shop in Pittsburg, Kansas. The only missing element was equipment and a shop building. We have since found there is much more to it!

When we ordered the first machines we thought we would need, the sales office wanted the name of the company buying them. We had to call back as we hadn't thought about that part yet. We put our names together as we had in marriage in 1975 and came up with Jan And Gaylen's Engineering. It had a far reaching ring and has been our fictitious name since. You have to call the company SOMETHING!

The Logo story starts with bags of Milo seed used to fill Dad's row crop planter out in central Kansas long before Jannie or JAG. The brand was >ACCO>. And the letters were partially outlined inclusively with a left to right arrow. The colors were green and black on the white seed bags. For many years we used the JAG and arrow outline with ENGINEERING down the shaft.

I created this logo as a first project in MacPaint on my new 128k Mac in 1984.

It seems when times got tough as they will, I would find a bit of reprieve working on the LOGO. I even hand embroidered one on a uniform shirt I never wore because of the time I had in it. We eventually had 4" over pocket patches machine embroidered and all the JAG Guys wore this on a tan shirt with dark brown pants.

Jannie and I incorporated the business in July of 1991 as a closely held Missouri corporation. It was time for a change in books and looks! We were in the foundry business and were building some of the equipment necessary. One of these projects was an Ingot Mold. Most folks weld ends on a big piece of angle iron and pig out the remains of a heat in the same day. We were a "Pattern Shop" so I created a Personalized Wooden Ingot as a master pattern, clayed over it and poured a plaster case, then poured a reverse shell in Repro, a fast-cast filled urethane material. Voila! A moldmaker's mold mold mold ! I love this business !

The Ingot has been the challenge of my soul to develop in 3D CAD. We have a good 3D wireframe but need hotter software to develop a solid model and then back it into a surface model. I think Euclid Designer or Strim might do it. It contains most of the construction challenges to be had in computer modeling! One of my CAD/CAM goals is a Bas-Relief of the current logo cut in brass strip as a belt buckle giveaway.

We changed uniform colors in 1991 to gray shirts and navy pants and had to have new matching patches. The Current LOGO started life as a quest for this patch. We all wear it on our Left shoulder and an American Flag on our Right.

The sky blue field is the one we are outstanding in. The Missouri outline filled with stars and bars adds color, is patriotic as we all are, and makes both arms match a little better. The Ingot is flying or in hover mode at 22.5 degrees from level. This is important and I don't know why. The black and yellow target allays to our automotive industry experience. You CAN learn a lot from a dummy! The target was placed using CAD at Latitude 37.0467 and Longitude 93.2897 ,City of Nixa, Christian County, Missouri, USA. The rest is a ring of letters that looks neat on the shift knob of our Cummins Dodge 1-ton truck.