A woman in my office is having her husband make a sign for her. It will have router cut letters in a piece of 2X12 that was found floating in a stream. Apparently it is well weathered and of drift wood character. She wants to know how to make the letters look like they are burned into the wood... Given my aversion to router noise this isn't something I have any experience with. ;-) Any suggestions?
Thanks,
John
After the letters are formed, go over them with a cheap woodburning tool, available at the larger craft stores... flat black paint will look like, well, flat black paint and a torch will be hard to control without some practice, but a woodburner is easy to use right out of the box...
Michael Latcha - at home in Redford, MI
Use a really blunt router bit ;)
In no particular order, John...
Good luck.
Have a nice week...
Trent
Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!
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