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:ROFLMAO: You Californians! gotta love ya! The customer handled the "permit." He called city hall and said, "Bobby, I'm puttin' up a sign out yonder. Uh huh ... 4 x 8. 'Bout twelve feet. Right. Okay, thanks!" Permit recorded. God Bless Kentucky! :Big Laugh .

I am obviously new and green at this, but what is available to put a texture into a surface so it is not absolutely flat? The big orange store pointed me to the wall and ceiling textures, but that seems like a horror story waiting to happen. If I shoot a surface with paint, is there something...

Hey! There is an untapped market! Toilet seat lids! A nice vinyl sign on top that reads, "Lift Before Use" :Big Laugh

"When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade." Cutting off that ... 5" ?? ... of vinyl means you have FREE material to use for another purpose. You could make small signs and laminate them to some substrate, or just donate the material to the local scout troop or elementary school...

Both the owner and I will be dead before that happens. :wink:

Exactly. This was more of a favor for a friend, than a random, paying customer. It was also an exercise in actually USING the tools in my shop. I did learn a lot, as I stumbled around looking for tools that are not where they are supposed to be, and hunted for that thing "I JUST BOUGHT...

Just out of curiosity, and as a guide, what SHOULD I have charged for it? I welded the frame together, and made the faces and the caps. Go ahead. Tell me. I can take it! .

What do you think about using prefab letters from a place like Hobby Lobby, and mounting them (screws through the back, or adhesive?) to a sheet of Dibond or Polycarbonate? I played with a lot of ideas, given the low budget for this sign, and I didn't want to give the customer a flat vinyl...

Oh! I have a couple sheets of Dibond! I forgot all about them :banghead:

I sure appreciate all of the feedback. I thought about getting "fancy" with it, but it was a very short deadline, and as I said, this was my first attempt. I didn't want to get so deep into it that I could not meet the 8-day deadline from concept to mounting. I am just a one-man show. No...

What is MaxMetal? .

That is the owner's responsibility. His son will clean and paint it this weekend. .

It was routed. I used KILZ Adhesion primer, Ronan white sign enamel for the base, and 1-shot enamels for the black and blue and white text and fields. The pole is from an old sign. this one will be illuminated externally using L.E.D. lights. This is a small town and they roll up the...

It was routed, but it is not highly dimensional. I am NEW at this. This was my FIRST time working with HDU, and enamel paints. In fact, this is the first outdoor pole-mounted sign I have ever made. The frame is 2" square tubing with a 3/16" wall, fully welded and the center pole rises...

Projects done in my shop

This is the very first sign I have made. It is for a friend who is opening a used car lot in town. 1" HDU faces bonded to 1/2" plywood on a steel tube welded frame with .040" aluminum caps all around. Hand painted with Ronan white sign enamel and 1-Shot black and blue lettering enamels. We...

Consider for a moment the phenomenon of optical perception. You can route around letters to get your depth using a 1/4" or 3/8" or 1.2" bit, to hog out the "meat" of the sign. Then come back and trace the edges of the letter only 1/8" DEEP, using a 1/8" bit or even a 1/16" bit. If the face...