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I have seen AND have tried to use the Search for plans to build a wooden sign kit,to no avail. Can anyone help me to locate this item? Thanks in advance Duckie
------------------ PKing is Pat King of King Sign Design in McCalla,Alabama The Professor of SIGNOLOGY
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Don't have that book Karen.Would rather have a link,or directions to the post I THOUGHT was here. Got me an ACE woodworker,willing to do the Actual production for me. Thanks again for any help
------------------ PKing is Pat King of King Sign Design in McCalla,Alabama The Professor of SIGNOLOGY
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There was a really great article in SignCraft by Ken Millar on homemade signkits. The ones he made himself are works of art. I'm trying to contact Ken.
I'm not sure what post you are referring to Pat. If you go and click on the BB Searh at the top right, then enter signkit in the "Search Word" box and finally click on "Perform Search."
There are several posts that show up. Are any of these the one you are looking for?
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When I was a sign baby at Trade-Tech I made a big old humongous sign kit out of wood and it turned out to be too darned big and HEAVY with all the junk in it, so then I made one out of cardboard, just as a template, you understand, to see how big to make a real one in wood. Well, I took it to school for use in the meantime and it got laughed at so much I decided to just varnish it and keep on using it = to see how long it would last. It got ruined in the great flood of '86. Elapsed time=10 years. Then there was a meet coming up in '87 and some of the old folks said "Hey, bring that funky old cardboard sign kit if you still have it", so I made another. This one turned out a little better, made it out of a wine box. It's still alive; 13 years and counting.>>UNVARNISHED<< I can post plans for that, if you like...haha
------------------ "If it isn't fun, why do it?" Signmike@aol.com Mike Languein Doctor of Letters BS, MS, PhD ___________________
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Hi PKing, Terry Colley in England is building sign kits and you might contact him for plans.Terry@bullandbrush.fsnet.co.uk He is a great guy and I'm sure he will be willing to send you the info you need. Bill Riedel
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Building your own wooden sign kit can be a really satisfying project and it's great to know you have a one-of-kind custom made kit. It's pretty hard however, to come up with a "one size fits all" sign kit. I think that's one of the reasons for making your own.
Building kits is kind of a hobby of mine, and over the years I have built a LOT of them. Some for myself, some as gifts, some for my sons and grandsons. Quite a few of the Left Coast Letterheads either use or have seen my kits. No two have ever been exactly the same. Some are large ones for walls and bulletins, and my latest was a tiny 6"x8"x12" pinstriping kit for my grandson. Some double as a seat or step stool, others nestle one inside another. As an example, there is no reason for a copper size brush drawer or a compartment for quills in a wall kit.
Before you begin a custom kit, you need to decide what your are going to be doing with it, and what you think you plan to carry in it. My truck lettering kit is totally different than my gold kit.
At any rate, E-mail me if you're interested, and I'll send you some pictures and sketches of shop built kits. Let me know what kind of work you mostly do.
Oh by the way, "No kit is ever big enough to hold all the crap you end up carrying around"
------------------ Jerry Mathel Jerry Mathel Signs Grants Pass, Oregon signs@grantspass.com
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hey mike i to have had built things from cardboard. when i was in college..one of the art class projects was to build a piece of furniture from cardboard....and let me tell ya..some of the inventive lookin stuff that was made....most of the stuff was built with cardboard glued together like plywood...and you would glue the stuff with the flutes running on one layer horizontal and the next layer flutes where vertical....amazingly strong....one guy in the class made a lounge chair that was like 6 ft long and stood on legs from carpet rolls(similar to inner vinyl tubes but way heavier)for duribility we put 5- 6 people on it at one time....i was gona build a jon boat the same way and cover it with fiberglas cloth and resin.....
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