7 Seas Brewing — Gig Harbor, WA
Plumb Signs · Real-World Signage · Gig Harbor, WA
Three signs on the working waterfront.
A painted-aluminum architectural monument, an oval push-thru cabinet, and a bay-facing rail-mounted cabinet — designed, fabricated, permitted, and installed by Plumb Signs for 7 Seas Brewing Co. at 3401 Harborview Dr on Gig Harbor Bay.
Project Overview
7 Seas Brewing Co.’s flagship taproom sits at the head of Gig Harbor Bay at 3401 Harborview Dr — one of the most-photographed stretches of waterfront on the Washington side of Puget Sound. A brewery sign program on that site has to do three things at once: read clean from the bay as boats come into the harbor, hold up to year-round salt air, and look at home against the working-waterfront architecture of downtown Gig Harbor.
Plumb Signs delivered the full exterior program end-to-end from our Tacoma shop — design coordination, in-house metal fabrication and automotive-grade finishing, push-thru acrylic letter routing, UL-listed Class 2 LED integration, City of Gig Harbor permitting, and waterfront installation by our own licensed crew. Three coordinated signs: a painted-aluminum architectural monument at the entrance, an oval cabinet with push-thru lettering, and a bay-facing rail-mounted cabinet engineered for the corrosion environment that comes with sitting twenty feet from saltwater.
Built across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge from the install site — twelve miles east in our 909 S 28th St shop — and trucked back over the bridge by the same crew that fabricated each piece.
Project Snapshot
At a Glance
Gig Harbor, WA 98335
Four Views · One Waterfront Program
How the Brand Meets the Harbor
Three coordinated signs spread across the site read as one program — entrance monument, oval cabinet, and bay-facing rail-mounted cabinet. The shots below walk the visitor from the parking field at the top of the bay around to the water-side view boats see when they come into the harbor.
Fabrication & Illumination
Built for Salt Air — in Tacoma
Push-thru construction: aluminum face precision-routed so acrylic letters insert from behind and “push through” the face. Internal LEDs light the letters edge-on for a clean halo and even day/night read. Whole assembly built to a coastal spec from the substrate up.
- Cabinets & substrate: Welded aluminum, returns finished true
- Faces: Precision-routed aluminum + push-thru acrylic letters
- Illumination: Class 2 LED modules, even spread, rear-service access
- Listing: UL 48 sign assemblies, low-voltage Class 2 wiring
- Mounting: Stainless hardware throughout, structural anchoring engineered for site
- Primer: Marine-grade, full coverage including welds and seams
- Topcoat: Automotive-grade paint, brand-matched, sealed against UV and salt air
- Sealing: Every penetration sealed at the cabinet for water ingress protection
- Bench testing: Each LED bank wired and lit on the shop floor before crating
- Service plan: Same Tacoma crew on the service call — module replacement without face removal
The coastal spec is the default for any Plumb Signs project within sight of saltwater — nothing on this site should need a maintenance call the first winter, and the build is set up so when service is eventually needed it’s a 25-minute drive from the shop, not a vendor handoff.
Inside the Tacoma Shop
From Rendering to Rail Mount
Every component for the program was designed, fabricated, finished, and bench-tested at 909 S 28th St in Tacoma before it ever moved across the Narrows. Six frames from the shop floor and the waterfront install — click any tile to open the full sequence.
Our Process
How the Program Came Together
Four phases — brand to bay-side install — one shop.
Design & Engineering
In-house team developed scaled drawings, renderings, push-thru tolerances, LED layouts, and structural engineering for a railing inches from saltwater.
City of Gig Harbor Permitting
Permit packet prepped and submitted to the City, with direct response on design-review follow-ups. No vendor handoff between drawing and submittal.
Fabrication in Tacoma
Aluminum welded, faces CNC-routed, push-thru letters fit, LED modules wired and bench-tested, brand-matched topcoat sprayed and sealed — all in our 909 S 28th St shop.
Install Along the Bay
Same crew across the bridge. Monument seated on its foundation, oval cabinet hung clean, rail-mount anchored with stainless hardware — taproom never lost a service shift.
Service Area
Brewery & Restaurant Signage Across the South Sound
Gig Harbor sits on the west side of the Tacoma Narrows on Highway 16 — twenty minutes from our Tacoma shop, with quick reach to Bremerton, Port Orchard, and the Kitsap Peninsula. Plumb Signs serves Gig Harbor and the surrounding Puget Sound brewery and restaurant market every week.
We design, fabricate, permit, and install commercial signage — monuments, channel letters, illuminated cabinets, push-thru cabinets, wayfinding, ADA-tactile, interior reception, dimensional letters, and rail-mounted waterfront cabinets — across Gig Harbor, the Kitsap Peninsula, and the wider South Sound.
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About Push-Thru Signs, Waterfront Builds & This Project
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