I did an internet search for lecterns to see what showed up and found some that used some interesting stuff for the column, like PVC pipe, a piece of triangular TV tower, and other stuff. I already had a 6 foot piece of 2" PVC pipe on hand so I went with that. All materials used for this project were leftovers from previous projects. 1/2" plywood with good veneer on both sides, red oak scraps, and cocobolo scraps from guitar builds.
The only thing that makes this a Vectric related project is that I took a photo of our US flag's star field, converted it to vectors in Aspire, printed the Aspire screen vectors onto business card stock, cut out the stars with an Xacto knife and #11 blade, sprayed a light coat of 3M77 contact adhesive on the back and waving it around a few seconds to dry. Then after carefully aligning the sheet of star shape holes, I rubbed the sheet onto the painted (fully cured) blue paint. Then I masked off everything else and sprayed two coats of white paint on the holes. I let it tack up for a few minutes then carefully removed the sheet. There were some minor issues with under spray in a few holes that was repaired with a flat artist brush and blue paint.
The striped PVC column was spray painted white, then when fully cured it was then masked with 3/4" painters tape and painted red.
I delivered it to the Veterans Museum two weeks ago and the response from the leader and volunteers has very satisfying since then. I am a volunteer there and have been helping them move to their new location during that effort during June and July.
Richard
