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We've been busy lately-I'm enploying our oldest son fulltime now, and he's making money while I'm breaking even! It's been good having him here, and lots of things that have needed doing for a long time are slowly getting done. Yesterday we went out & put up a sign as per the pictures below. The gilded lettering is 30mm or 1 1/4" HDU. The backing is alupanel. The cross was kwila (a very heavy greasy weatherproof dense timber) The cross & writing used up six books of double-gold 24 ct transfer leaf (you might call it patent leaf? Lightly adhered to wax or tissue paper-in this case wax paper)
P.S. There's no vinyl-it's all enamel, or else alupanel or hdu or wood.
This is what the above sign replaced!
[ November 26, 2010, 09:20 AM: Message edited by: Ian Stewart-Koster ]
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Not yet finished, but this'll be the centre part of a car repair garage sign nearby. The spark plug is about 1 ft long. All in HDU on alupanel backing:
I showed Andrew how to make the file & he actually 'did' the pistons on his own, then created another sparkplug for himself! (All in HDU) (Of course the sparkplug had to be engraved with the part number ISK-2010, and the conrods have a 'casting' raised part number saying Andy S-K 2010!)
In spite of having the cnc router, I still did a lot of hand-shaping of the grapes & leaves here. It's 1" hdu at the top, glued over 1" hdu for the main part, glued over 1/2" ply, and with a hardwood edge frame. Verdigris finish, plus 24 ct gold. 60 degree vee groove to the verses & 120 degree vee for the gilded text. The background is not flat- it has a swoosh or high part up in the centre & a valley at the top quarter & bottom quarter, horizontally
It's 4 ft x 3 ft x 3"
We did this a couple of months ago for a currency-exchange store. It's a whole sheet 8x4 ft of 3/4" HDU, glued to a slightly smaller alupanel backing sheet
This is a model of a Rider Ericsson hot air engine- the third one I've striped in about a year or so:
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Lastly, it was Joans & my 20th wedding anniversary in September, and I made this for her: but of coiurse I relied heavily on 'electrical tools' to help! It was still a big learning curve & a few 'issues' to get around! It's almost 1 metre long.
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