this was blasted out of spruce....it was a bad choice in wood but made some great grain patern. also the carving took useing a mallet in stead of using just my hands.6x6 posts and custom made bracket. also this was a 2 sided sign. the sub copy was leafed through a stencil then pealed...it was the cleanest surface guild that i have done.
chris
Posted by BRIAN CAISSIE (Member # 2673) on :
That Looks Great!!!!!
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
It looks great. But why spruce?
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Glenn you took the exact words out of my mouth
[ February 16, 2003, 12:23 PM: Message edited by: Bob Stephens ]
Posted by Chris Lovelady (Member # 2540) on :
supplied by customer.
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Good answer!
It reminds me of a customer we had several years ago. He brought in a sign blank that he wanted for us to sandblast. It was made from pressure treated pine.
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
Chris....
May I offer one critique? It seems to me the sign would have been a lot better with a dark finish. Keeping the wood a light tone like you have is too close in value to the gold lettering. No matter how good you do the actual leafing, the sign will always be hard to read. I can barely make out the secondary copy.If the area behind the copy had been a dark oxford brown, then it would have read much better.Then you could leave a wide border around the sign in a natural tone if you still wanted some of the lighter color showing. I know you didn't ask for critical comments, but I just couldn't resist on this one, hope you don't mind.
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