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Here I am reading about the chalkboard on the "step by steps" and a customer walks in wanting a chalkboard - go figure. Not being familiar with the stuff (that's why I'm reading) I'm considering building my own A-frame.
Will poster paint make the wood writeable like a chalkboard (and erasable)? Does anyone know of a source for chalkboard?
Regards, Denis
-------------------- Denis de Leon Creative Signcrafters 125 Railroad Avenue, suite 4 Hightstown, NJ 08520 Posts: 128 | From: New Jersey | Registered: Jul 2005
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Comes in waterbased and xzyelene sp? based, the xyz stuff is a smother finish, but real Stinky! btw, don't double plastic wrap your roller and store in freezer for "another board in a few days... xzy tainted food is not that good!
John
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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These are some T-boards I did last week for a new butcher's shop in a supermarket. They're coated with an oilbased blackboard paint. You can also do them as A-frames.
The butcher was done with basecoat auto paints & clear coated with a good waterbased flat clear. Lettering was enamel, brushed. No vinyl used, just a bit of app tape as a mask where needed.
(& John's right, don't put a turpsy roller in the fridge or freezer!)
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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the material is what we call 'Weathertex'. It's a masonite/hardboard which is tempered a bit for weather resistance. It's 3/8" thick, (9-10mm) & has a preprimed top surface.
I just used the jigsaw (scrollsaw) to cut the top silhouette, then routed a slight chamfer on the raw edges & all round, primed that, scuffed the lot & put a coat of white enamel on it , then did the airbrushing, then brushed the blackboard paint on top on the front. Boforehand, I'd rolled the terracotta colour on the back (left over from a job last week), and at the last minute I thought it would help impress the customer to have two useable surfaces, so I brushed the black on the back too.
I welded up the Tee legs from galv, square inch steel (gal RHS we call it here) & welded the ends tapershut & bolted them on with three 1/4" or 6mm bolts each.
HTH!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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