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OK just my own personal opinion but often customers don't know as well as we do what works, what doesn't work or what things will look like when finished & it's down to us (to some degree) to educate them. I worked like that for years as a signmaker doing cad cut vinyl & digital print & it worked w...

Jan Vanderlinden Thank you for your input but unfortunately the tree "is" there logo so that can't change they jsut want a sign identical to there logo. I've showed them a virutal image on how color would look and the owner still wants to stay natural. Additionally I wanted to do a live edge since t...

I have a person who want's me to carve their logo and make the tree with a relief. Currently I'm looking at using the pebble texture for the tree. Looking for any other suggestions. The tree carving will be 30 x 30 so the tree top itself will be about 18 x15. I'm using a bark texture for the trunk. ...

Customer definitely wants wood and we are going with 5/4 white oak

Thank you guys for the post. I have worked with HDU and I believe I have the skill to create a wood grain texture. Not so sure on the painting skills. What do use to back up the HDU with? Marine Plywood? Would you still use a quality marine SPAR varnish top coat. I have a call from the customer toda...

I've been commissioned to carve and paint a number of sign for a tug/tow boat in Miami. I'm a great lakes guy. They want a natural wood with carved and painted letters. I know woods like teak have oils so paint won't hold up. I'm thinking white oak but maybe others have a better recommendation. The ...

Thanks for all the input. I certainly have a few options to experiment with. I will post in a new message if I'm successful of pictures of the final project.

dealguy11 wrote:Out of curiosity, what is the purpose of the layer of metal between the MDF and the veneer?

see my description a few comments above.

I should have been specific on the veneer. I have whole sale factory veneer from without a backing. I purchased a sizable amount 10 years ago. it was dry then and dry now but it is 8 to 16 inches wide by 96 to 108 inches long. Most stacks of each species of wood are matched sets so I can book match ...

I need to glue flat 26 gage sheetmetal to a 1/2 " mdf base and then glue hardwood veneer to the steel sheeting. This will be done on multiple blocks the largest being 48x30. I'm thinking some type of epoxy with 30 or 60 minute open time. I will clamp with a second MDF sheet on top of the metal or ve...

Sounds like a perfect job for HDU. It's easy to paint, it holds paint well, it doesn't expand & contract too much with temperature changes, it'll hold up to sun and weather after the customer does a bad job of painting the first time, then never paints them again. In my 25 years of sign making, I'v...

Trying to determine material to use to cut custom letters and logo for a sign. 3/4 thick x 2 to 4 inches tall I've not cut letters in outdoor material to mount to a sign but I've carved HDU sign material and acrylic and polyethylene. Is there a best practice to mount them to an existing double sided...

I thought I would post the resultfor the many people who took the time to provide suggestion that resulted in a huge improvement to this carving. I do not know how to tag people to say thank you but I'd like to thank personally dealguy11, Rcnewcomb, TReischl, mezalick, martin54, mtylerfl and Chuck K...

I've registered, but will be tying it to a trip/vacation. Looking for an affordable RV Park outside of Denver to park my trailer and then commute into town for the meetings. Below is the result of what I learned last year plus a 15 minute private tutorial from Becky. I started this project in early ...

If you have Aspire 8.5 you don't have to upgrade. Just keep using it and it will work fine. Like one other guy said he is using version 3.5 SO you wouldn't gain anything by down grading besides spending money. Keep aspire and use it till you grow out of it. It's not a leased product so you can use i...