Pattern for Bar Be Cue business

[Mike Crosa]

Son in law has been Barbecueing for quite a while and finally has started a business.  I would like to make a sign based on his business card and was hoping someone could help. Thanks in advance.

[Jim McDonald]

Mike:

Not to be short, but you have a great 3D pattern in your hand.

Cut the cleavers outlines and handles, the do the parts of the letters and glue them on. Mount everything back to a gloss black backer. I would use a high quality silver paint on the cleavers and a highly figured wood for the handles.

I would maybe use some brass rod for the rivets.

[Dan]

What Jim said. Or, if you are really up for a challenge, buy 2 cleavers and cut the words out. I think the cleavers would be too thick to work with, though. You could use cleavers and have them engraved, but this is a scroll saw site, so maybe not.

[preprius]

expanding on old cleaver mounted....

Etch the metal with the words.

I did this for Joe's old hatchet. He wanted a P51 on it.

This what you get when mixing electricity salt water and hatchets.

After cleanup and etching...

Before cleanup...

 

 

Edited January 13 by preprius

[Mike Crosa]

I like what Jim has suggested and also the other ideas but my skill level isn't quite there yet. I was thinking more along the lines of something scrolled.

 

Mike

[preprius]

ok so let's get back to your needs.

What size do you want this to be? 

Baltic birch is typically 20 inches x 20" or bigger.  Someone in this village uses hobby solid core boards from home depot or lowes.  

I use project ready boards from Oochooch , or Cherokee woods.  I like to see the grain of real wood. 

But if your going to paint it black then go with home depot stuff.

It looks like you can buy 2 boards, 1 for the black background ( no scrollsaw cuts), and the 2nd board for the letters and outlines of the cleavers and circles.  Then just glue the outlines, letters to the back board. 

Slight variation is to cut full disks for circles instead outlined circles. This does less cuts.  But that changes the design.  The circle outline for the blade seems better than full disks.

The circles for the wood you can get copper lacquer spray paint to enhance the rivet concept. 

Part of the business card expense was how many colors you use. So you can ask your son-in-law if he wants to vary colors. 

Getting back to size. How big can you cut?  Do you have spiral blades?

How much space does he have to hang this?

Do you want this pattern on pdf?

 

Edited January 13 by preprius

[Mike Crosa]

I am thinking a size of about 8" x 14".  A pattern in pdf would be great.  Thanks,

 

Mike

[preprius]

I sent Mike the pdf files for the pattern.   The picture might be copyrighted so I did not share the pattern here.
I am not the best pattern maker so here is a picture of the overlay.  

I scaled the picture to size 8x13  just a bit smaller than legal sheet. Accounting for margins.  
i traced lines/bezels curves over the cleavers.  And then tried to find exact fonts.   "Quintin Caps" is the best I could find.  And "Stencils".

I also included an alternate text to substitute the stencil "Barbeque Joint" for Quintin Caps "Barbeque Joint".  

The fonts are not exactly the same.   I had to use kerning (spaces between letters) to help fit correctly.  Quintin caps have air spacing between outlines and fills.  Please just follow the outlines when cutting. 

strokes for cleavers were set for 8pts,   strokes for circles were set for 6pts.

Cut the big red square for the background.   Then on second board cut the lines/circles and text. 

 

[Mike Crosa]

Thanks Mark,  I really appreciate your efforts.  Will be working on it this weekend, if it doesn't rain.

 

Mike

[barb.j.enders]

I have a suggestion for the "rivets".  If you don't want to purchase a whole can of spray, I have used copper tape on a couple of projects.  But we have copper tape hanging around because of hubbies hobbies!  On my latest project I am using aluminum tape to accent a circle.  So, if you want silver rivets, you could cover the wood with the aluminum tape.

[Mike Crosa]

Thanks Barb for the idea.

[ChelCass]

A few other things you can use for riverts is:  Copper or gold colored Rivets, Thumbtacks or copper nails.  If you don't want to buy a whole box then go to Ace hardware or any hardware store that sells by the pound and you can buy just a few.

[barb.j.enders]

6 hours ago, ChelCass said:

A few other things you can use for riverts is:  Copper or gold colored Rivets, Thumbtacks or copper nails.  If you don't want to buy a whole box then go to Ace hardware or any hardware store that sells by the pound and you can buy just a few.

Or check at a fabric store for upholstery tacks.