World of Wood sign

[Leo Voisine]

Anybody care to make - or to help me make a REAL - world of wood sign.

This might require shipping materials around to different places.

It could be fun.

A joint project.

Everybody to chip in something.

I will do the engraving of the text - and coloring of the letters.

How would the sign be made?

It would need to be shipped to me.

Who would do the final finishing - I could, but someone else might want to.

I could do some Solid works CAD design - but there are others here that can do it also. It's just for show. But maybe I would use to to program the CNC for the text.

Where would the finished sigh go? TJ


What are your thoughts -- GROUP PROJECT?

[Beamer]

It might be good to let the potential recipient weigh in here before we get a big project going. If he ain't got room for it or just isn't into the idea much, I'd hate for a project to get started only to have to peter out.

Now ...

What do you think of THIS idea as an alternative:

WoW Branded trinkets. You know, key chains, coasters, coins, etc.

Then we could all pitch in and have a piece of WoW to carry around ...

Would that be something you'd be into, Leo? How small/detailed can you CNC? Could I send you some brass or aluminum to engrave? I have a great line on cheap stock

[Stretch]

Apr 4, 2010 19:55:51 GMT -6 Leo Voisine said:

Where would the finished sigh go? TJ


What are your thoughts -- GROUP PROJECT?

Here's an idea. Leo make a sign and take a picture of yourself holding the sign somewhere cool. For instance, you take out your kayak to a really cool place and get a pic of yourself holding the WoW sign sitting in your kayak. You post the pic to a new thread and send the sign on to the next person who comes up with a cool place to take a pic with the sign. The sign travels around to whoever wants to take a pic with it. Everyone signs the back of the sign and posts their pic to your original thread. When the sign has run it's course we think of something cool to do with it next.

[wisardd1]

I happened to be going up Mt. Everest this weekend! Can you ship it overnight? I could wait though, and go up the Matterhorn instean, it is just a few miles away over in Anaheim!

Oh by the way, just joshin of course! Great idea

dale

[admin]

Leo,

To be honest, I don't have room for my own stuff, I really don't have space to handle a sign. If somebody were to flat out give me a simple set of hand tools, I'd turn 'em down cold because I simply am having too many personal issues to worry about moving my stuff to store 'em, LOL.

If you want to make a long lasting contribution, put together a good tutorial for the article board outlining something that most of us don't know how to do (like engraving, etc), and post it up. This will serve a number more purposes than a sign would as it will 1, be generating legit woodworking interest in a woodworking forum, 2, be teaching us something we don't know, and 3, it won't be requiring as much physical effort (packaging, shipping, storage, etc.)

Make your daughter (I'm unsure of how many you have, but the one who's a member here will do wonderfully. ) a nice something (jewelry box with some fancy stuff on it, etc), engrave it using the technique you were planning for the sign, and detail the process. She gets something nice, we get something nice, and I don't have one more thing on my plate.

If I had my choices, I'd take this route without even batting an eye. A sign is something, but material the forum can learn from, that's a lot more, IMO.

Thanks,
TJ.

[Leo's Daughter]

Not that my dad needs more projects but he could make a box for my nice silverware, maybe with engraving that matches the design on the handles. ;-)

Hmmm dresser first though... ;-) (http://worldofwood.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=genwork&action=display&thread=2251&page=4)

I could keep my dad busy forever, good thing he only has one daughter!

[Ruffnek]

Apr 5, 2010 19:23:46 GMT -6 Leo's Daughter said:

I could keep my dad busy forever, good thing he only has one daughter!

Hey, that's what woodworking dads are all about.

[TDHofstetter]

Apr 4, 2010 22:36:05 GMT -6 Stretch said:

Apr 4, 2010 19:55:51 GMT -6 Leo Voisine said:

Where would the finished sigh go? TJ


What are your thoughts -- GROUP PROJECT?

Here's an idea. Leo make a sign and take a picture of yourself holding the sign somewhere cool. For instance, you take out your kayak to a really cool place and get a pic of yourself holding the WoW sign sitting in your kayak. You post the pic to a new thread and send the sign on to the next person who comes up with a cool place to take a pic with the sign. The sign travels around to whoever wants to take a pic with it. Everyone signs the back of the sign and posts their pic to your original thread. When the sign has run it's course we think of something cool to do with it next.

Ya know... I kinda' LIKE this whole idea. We could put together quite a c'lection of photos.

[autobodyman]

Okay did a screen capture of the above world of wood sign, converted to grayscale and saved as a .png file,


brought that into my carvewright software, and used it for these renders:




The one below is after inverting the image (changing the highs from white to black)

Upon close inspection it's pretty rough, after increasing the picture screen capture I boosted the dpi from 72 to 300 which if left unchanged (resized in the carvewright software) the sign would be 6" tall and 36" long.

Just messin around, I don't think this would be a very nice carve, probably look better to do by hand or start from scratch with different pictures and thicken the text.

~Mike

[imahic]

It's a great idea but agree on what would one do with the sign. Stretch has a great idea as well. That would be pretty cool to see where all the sign would wind up. Kind of like that troll thing that was going around a while back.

[Leo Voisine]

I was just thinking of making it a group project.

Start in one place - send it to the next for some work - then send it to another place for more work, etc, etc till it was done.

I could do a tutorial on sign making, there are some bits that might be useful in non-sign making.

Mike, my machine does an actual "V" groove. The cutter follows the contour of the letter. The cut is smooth and crisp. My only limitation is the 24x24 cutting area.

[Joe Lyddon]

Where would it end up hanging?