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Like to build a 3'x6'x 7"wide monument box sign to go on a brick foundation (no side columns). Totally confused on really the best way. Don't have welding experience or would rather not sub it out. Perhaps a lumber frame with plywood and aluminum face? Which is an easy mounting method?. Would like to hide any hardware. Maybe slide it over post...Anyone with this experience shed some light please.. THANKS ALL.....God bless our troops
-------------------- Signs Solutions, Inc. Matthew Rossi Midlothian, VA, 23113 signsol@earthlink.net Posts: 139 | From: Midlothian, Virginia | Registered: Nov 1998
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There was an excellent article a few years back, I believe it was in Sign Business, about the do's and don't's of monument signs.
The builder (and author) had built a form out of plywood and timbers only to realize that concrete has a whole lot force to it than he thought.
The sign was, to the best of mt recollection, a monument to the Challenger space shuttle crew. Maybe this will jar loose some memory buried in a fellow Letterhead's brain...
Have a great one!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6465 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Bruce, Matthew, I just read that article yesterday!
Signcraft: March/April/1991 issue #57...p.95!
btw, I keep rereading my Signcrafts, always have a couple in the downstairs can, always finding new/old ideas in all those mags.
John Lennig / SignRider
-------------------- 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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I wrapped a couple of 10 foot 4x6's with MDO leaving 30" of post at the bottom to go in the ground. After cutting out a hole for the clients existing logo panels, the primed MDO was painted with some gritty stuff & some thickener mixed with the paint & applied with a texturing roller. It came out looking fairly monumental, but very simple construction & installation. That was 1996 when just starting out this business. I forget the details, but the sign still looks great.
forgive the small pic, it's just what I already had served up for my website.
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