A young fellow we know has built himself a magnificent new shop is has started working on vehicles.

I thought I would make him a sign for his new garage.

I have some very old redoak flooring that a friend had given me. I cut three of the boards to 300mm length and carved my design into each of them.

The frame was cut from some 1 x 2 pine. I routered a half inch groove into one the piece and cut it to length to form the 4 sides.

Everything was fitted together before finishing. Overall size is about 12″ x 12″.

Then a couple of coats of varnish were applied to the oak pieces and the individual letters painted by hand. A dark walnut stain was put on the pine frame and then varnished.

This project was finished a week ago, but I just gave it to him today.

Designed in Carbide Create. Carved on my Genmitsu 3018 PROVer using a 120 degree V-bit.

A couple of projects I’m just finishing up.

The first is a wedding gift requested by my son Steve for his friends. This was carved using a 60 Degree V-bit on soft maple and then sealed with 4 coats of teak/tung oil.

The graphics of the celtic knots on the corners and the wedding rings were just images downloaded from the interwebs and traced into my CAD software.

The 2nd is a house number sign I made for a friend. This one was a pocket cut with a 1/8 inch endmill in soft maple. I sealed the wood with shellac then painted the numbers and border with acrylic paint. The shellac was applied only to seal the wood to prevent any bleeding of the paint so I sanded it off to get back to the bare wood. Five coats of semi-gloss polyurethane finished it off.

Both projects are approximately 300mm x 165 mm. Both were designed in Carbide Create and carved on my Genmitsu 3018 PROVer.