Sign Carving With Your Router

A step-by-step guide to making custom wooden signs

Carving custom signs using an ordinary plunge router can be a rewarding and creative hobby, a profitable small business, or both. And it doesn't require a lot of expensive tools or a large workspace. This fact-filled 44-minute video is ideal for beginning woodworkers. Sign-maker Jim Bartz provides all the advice you need to design and carve custom wooden signs using a versatile freehand method that requires no lettering templates or guides. He takes you through the process step-by-step, from initial design to the final details. Both relief and engraved carving methods are covered.

Topics include:
Examples of signs and decorative carvings
Tools you'll need
Design tips
Preparing the workpiece
Safety considerations
Carving techniques
Removing the background
Detail work
Finishing

This how-to woodworking video runs 44 minutes.

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