Signs

At work a few weeks ago we had to label our doors for emergency personnel and such. So the boss went out and printed some signs with word and taped them on each of the doors. Thats all fine and dandy for regulations but not very attractive so I made these:



Much better! I have to give credit to Switcher from cnczone because my signs are a modified version of one of his. You can check out his site here, and in my links section, where he posts a great variety of vector art free for download, and well worth a bookmark. I gotta respect the people out there willing to share what they know.

I started off with a side of a birch bed frame That was hanging around for some time. Then I pulled off the nails and the bed slat shelf. My uncle was kind enough to plane it down for me to reveal a nice piece of wood. I made the signs in CamBam+ which you could also get a free version of. I erased the text in the original sign and entered my own with the text tool. For machining, I used an 1/8in ball mill for the border and a 90deg V-bit for the text. Then the whole thing was cut out with another 1/8in mill. Then I finished it off with a nice walnut stain. Pretty simple. Total cost of this project was about $4.50, the price of some stain. So go out there and find a hidden project. Mine started off pretty ugly so don't discriminate. Next time we'll talk about some basic tooling stuff.