B&B sign

[steve_g]

The old adage says that if you own a ShopBot… You’re in the sign business… sooner or later! I was tempted into doing this one because I don’t have to paint it!
My parameters were to make it 60” wide and look like the business card I was given… and to keep a peach crate feel!
I made it out of Western Red Cedar and preserved the “rough cut” peach crate look on all the parts. It’s a two sided sign… I learned that the second side is more than “just a little extra work”!
The B&B text is on a separate piece while the proprietor and the city haggle over what his sign can say…
SG

[garyr6]

Hassel or not, looks good!

[scottp55]

Steve, Really great work with the grain! Peach looks NICE.
I can't imagine the top of "Farm" was an accident--- Individuality showing ? :)
It ain't plain vanilla--That's for sure.

[steve_g]

Scott…
I carefully went through the stack of Cedar at Lowes (HD didn’t have anything I wanted!), I color matched and eliminated large knots… When the Stuff finally dried out, I was left with wildly varying color and dramatic shrinkage! I cut out the letters, cut pockets to fit the letters but didn’t glue them in until the next day… The letters had shrunk enough by the next day, that I had to do a lot of hand work to fit them! My customer is going to either color stain or paint to match his business card, the wood color variations will be covered!
SG

[scottp55]

Shame. Reminds me of some beautiful Birds-eye kitchen cabinets a guy I know did, and they were just ready for the customer to come in that day to finalize the finish. I asked later if he had finished pictures, He said "Scott---You don't want to see them". She had them pickled white! Nice work!

[Bob Eustace]

Bvery nice work Steve. And welcome to the sign club!