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Vintage Sign

High Octane

High Octane

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Sign I just did for a friend of mines bar....tried going with an old vintage beat to hell looking sign...just a decoration for the inside....It's a rock concert bar type of place...Pic kinda sucks...doesn't really do it justice. 3/4" MDO and just latex paints
 

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GP

GP

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Very cool - landed itself right into the "inspiration folder"

Can you expand on how you achieved the "beat to hell" effect?

Thanks -

GP
 
High Octane

High Octane

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Well it's kinda funny....I ran a haunted house this year and we had a bunch of odds and ends flat black painted wood left over....the boards sat outside for some time and the paint began to flake and age....I did the design...set up a paint mask and painted right over the flaking black paint...painted it and pulled off the mask..this took a bunch of paint off which worked great...I then took sand paper and roughed up areas of the sign...then I took old chains that I had and beat the hell out of it with a chain...then cleared over top of the sign to keep if from flaking off
 
animenick65

animenick65

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Not only a great design, but it sounds like you had a blast building it. Love creative projects like this. Can't say I've ever gotten to beat a sign with a chain before, but sounds fun.
 
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Steve C.

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Some other ideas for ageing are a blow torch and wire brush. Depending on
the paind used you can also spatter with lacquer thinner.
 
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