A try at Letters

[Canuck45]

Well I thought I would try doing letters. I used this pattern from Steve Good's site. It is done with 1/4" birch and the backing was made from old pieces of pallets I had laying around. The backer was stained with one quick coat and wiped off immediately to give the appearance of weathered wood. I finished it with spray gloss lacquer, not sure it shows in the picture or not. I noticed after I placed the letters that I was off on my squareness but oh well I think it still turned out pretty good. 

[DWSUDEKUM]

Very nicely done.  Letters can be difficult to do.  Thanks for sharing this with us.

DW

[wombatie]

Looks great.  Letters are so hard to get perfect and so are long straight lines, even with practice they can still be a pain in the neck.

Marg

[don in brooklin on]

Looks great. I love the stain.  Do you know the color and type?

Don

 

 

[lawson56]

I agree,Letters can be a pain,your stain is Awesome.as is your sign.

[Canuck45]

The stain I used was Minwax Penetrating Stain Classic Gray #271.

[daveww1]

very nice job

[blights69]

Great job love the use of pallet as a backer good to re use as much as possible Thanks for showing us 

[scrollerpete]

That turn out very nice, good job you should be proud.

[meflick]

Looks great.  I still cringe at the thought of doing letters. 

[bobscroll]

Great job on your plaque! You did well on the letters I think! Thank you

for showing, Bob 

[jerry1939]

Looks great.  You mentioned Squareness".  When I cut out a word(s), I am careful about the waste wood.  Leave a few reference lines.  When gluing the letters to backer, I put down craft sticks, set the waste on top, glue the bottom of each letter & drop it into place.  Let the glue dry & lift off the waste.

The reason the waste is propped up is to prevent the squeeze out from gluing down the waste.

[don watson]

Very nice indeed. Well done.

 

Don W

 

[Lucky2]

Brian, I think it looks very nice, nobody would notice it being off centered. It's not the cutting of letters that I mind, it's the actual placing of them that I dislike so much.

Len

[newfie]

Looks great thanks for sharing 

[amazingkevin]

On 11/28/2017 at 10:52 PM, Canuck45 said:

Well I thought I would try doing letters. I used this pattern from Steve Good's site. It is done with 1/4" birch and the backing was made from old pieces of pallets I had laying around. The backer was stained with one quick coat and wiped off immediately to give the appearance of weathered wood. I finished it with spray gloss lacquer, not sure it shows in the picture or not. I noticed after I placed the letters that I was off on my squareness but oh well I think it still turned out pretty good. 

Excellent skills!

[Phantom Scroller]

Good work, looks great. Roly

[Dave Monk]

Looks good. I think is good to be critical or your own work. That's what makes a guy better.