The finished signs ...love the colors
Fooling with fonts, layouts and offsets in a scrap
Side view
Front view finished sign
A friend of ours, Lucy Bergamini, owner of Vitriesse Glass Studio in West Pawlet, Vermont, (check out her stuff) .. asked us to make some quick signs for her new show booth set up ... We brainstormed a bit, fooled around with the fonts and type sizes on the various pieces and cut the letter holes out of 1/4 Baltic birch plywood. Jim sanded the letters and then Lucy and Jim painted the panels and the backing luann ply. My man Jim works blowing glass with Lucy two days a week and works here with us three so he started out last Friday getting started on the signs here, went to Lucy's yesterday to prime and paint and then came here this morning to glue the parts together with our favorite contact glue ... Spray 90 tm from 3M. Spray, let it sit for a minute and press for a permanent bond. Handy stuff .. stinks though ... We popped them in the vacuum bag for about 10 minutes each and they flattened right out. Great colors ... Jim'll be back here tomorrow for some woodworking ... Click the photos to enlarge them ...
The signs look great, but you didn't explain how you cut the letters. Router, laser or CNC something?
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Ahhhhh ... it was late in the evening .... we cut them on the cnc with an 1/8" bit. if you type 'cnc' in the search box at the top left of the blog you will see some of the other cnc related posts from last year ....
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