Diy Wooden Sign
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
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Contributor post past times Rachel of the Crafted Life
It’s official: I’m inwards dear amongst scroll saws! Unlike other intimidating ability tools, there’s less of a opportunity when using them because the blade moves upward as well as downward instead of inwards a round down fashion (though delight yet run caution when attempting this project!). And spell they are a flake of an investment, the possibilities of what you lot tin create are endless!
Time: ii hours + dry out time
Materials: wood, scroll saw, sand paper, pencil, clear satin topcoat gel, rag, drill
Materials: The length of your woods volition vary depending on the length of your saw’s neck, hence live on certain to mensurate this earlier beginning! I used a slice of Makore that was 14”L x 6”W x 3/4” thick.
Step One: If you lot aren’t keen at free-handing text, play unopen to inwards photoshop amongst dissimilar fonts as well as sizes. I chose Brannboll Fet at 340 pt. Instead of wasting ink on printing letters that size, I ready the create amount to 0% as well as had a stroke of five px.
Print hence cutting out to create a stencil.
Step Two: Lay your stencil on the woods hence trace. You’ll run these marks every bit guidelines when cutting hence they should live on visible as well as clean.
Step Three: Cut out using the scroll saw. Depending on how familiar you lot are amongst the saw, you lot may desire to exercise amongst a slice of pino as well as hence piece of employment your agency upward to a to a greater extent than expensive wood. As long every bit you lot accept your fourth dimension as well as are patient, you lot should live on able to instruct the hang of it. You tin also pick out a non-script font hence that you lot tin create the letters 1 past times one.
Step Four: To instruct within the loops of your letters, drill a small-scale hole that goes all the agency through the wood. You’ll hence take the blade on the scroll saw, feed through the hole (like you’re threading a needle), as well as reattach. Repeat until all of the letters are complete.
Step Five: Sand to smoothen out whatever stone oil edges.
Step Six: Apply your topcoat/stain/paint as well as allow dry!
Meet the Contributor:
Rachel Mae Smith lives inwards San Francisco, CA. She loves do-able diys as well as strives to brand crafting slowly as well as fun over on her spider web log The Crafted Life. When she’s non pinning pictures, or brushing glitter out of her hair, you lot tin honor her exploring as well as photographing the Bay Area.
It’s official: I’m inwards dear amongst scroll saws! Unlike other intimidating ability tools, there’s less of a opportunity when using them because the blade moves upward as well as downward instead of inwards a round down fashion (though delight yet run caution when attempting this project!). And spell they are a flake of an investment, the possibilities of what you lot tin create are endless!
Time: ii hours + dry out time
Materials: wood, scroll saw, sand paper, pencil, clear satin topcoat gel, rag, drill
Materials: The length of your woods volition vary depending on the length of your saw’s neck, hence live on certain to mensurate this earlier beginning! I used a slice of Makore that was 14”L x 6”W x 3/4” thick.
Step One: If you lot aren’t keen at free-handing text, play unopen to inwards photoshop amongst dissimilar fonts as well as sizes. I chose Brannboll Fet at 340 pt. Instead of wasting ink on printing letters that size, I ready the create amount to 0% as well as had a stroke of five px.
Print hence cutting out to create a stencil.
Step Two: Lay your stencil on the woods hence trace. You’ll run these marks every bit guidelines when cutting hence they should live on visible as well as clean.
Step Three: Cut out using the scroll saw. Depending on how familiar you lot are amongst the saw, you lot may desire to exercise amongst a slice of pino as well as hence piece of employment your agency upward to a to a greater extent than expensive wood. As long every bit you lot accept your fourth dimension as well as are patient, you lot should live on able to instruct the hang of it. You tin also pick out a non-script font hence that you lot tin create the letters 1 past times one.
Step Four: To instruct within the loops of your letters, drill a small-scale hole that goes all the agency through the wood. You’ll hence take the blade on the scroll saw, feed through the hole (like you’re threading a needle), as well as reattach. Repeat until all of the letters are complete.
Step Five: Sand to smoothen out whatever stone oil edges.
Step Six: Apply your topcoat/stain/paint as well as allow dry!
Meet the Contributor:
Rachel Mae Smith lives inwards San Francisco, CA. She loves do-able diys as well as strives to brand crafting slowly as well as fun over on her spider web log The Crafted Life. When she’s non pinning pictures, or brushing glitter out of her hair, you lot tin honor her exploring as well as photographing the Bay Area.