How to Make Wood Signs: Techniques for Creating Personalized Projects Using the Scroll Saw Plus Tips on Painting and Finishing - Couverture souple

Chura, Kendra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 149710341X ISBN 13 : 9781497103412

Editeur : Fox Chapel Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Learn how to create beautifully handmade wooden signs!

• Complete beginner's guide to wooden sign making for DIYers, crafters, scrollers, CNC users, and woodworkers
• Detailed overviews on tools, materials, safety, scroll saw basics, applying a pattern, troubleshooting, and other fundamental skills
• Step-by-step tutorials for sign making techniques organized by difficulty, including cutting lettering, adding a graphic, painting, making backers and frames, adding epoxy resin, woodburning, engraving, plastering, and more
• Practice patterns and projects to try, using the techniques as you learn them
• Create personalized gifts for special occasions like weddings, birthdays, birth announcements, and holidays, or for everyday use, like welcome signs, kids' room signs, and decorative wall art
• Author Kendra Chura is a self-taught woodworking artist and sign maker who knows exactly how to introduce, guide, and teach complete beginners to the craft so you can create with confidence

A must-have woodworking book for both aspiring and advanced crafters and DIYers, Making Custom Signs in Wood will show you everything you need to know to create beautifully handmade scroll saw art and wooden signs!

Featuring comprehensive opening sections on tools, materials, scroll saw basics, safety, troubleshooting, and more, equip yourself with the essential skills needed before you dive into the sign making technique sections. From the basics, like cutting lettering, adding a graphic, and painting to the more challenging skills of using epoxy resin, engraving, woodburning, and other next-level techniques, you'll learn everything you need to know to make amazing signs in wood.

This complete beginner's guide to making small wooden signs and personalized keepsakes also includes step-by-step projects to try, as well as practice patterns. Perfect for housewarming and wedding gifts, nurseries, and other personalized keepsakes both for you and your family and friends, this exciting and fun guide to sign-making will inspire your DIY projects and original designs for years to come!

Author and self-taught woodworking artist and signmaker Kendra Chura knows exactly how to introduce, guide, and teach complete beginners to the craft so they can create with confidence. Kendra Chura is a contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts and is the owner of KendrasGotWood (website) where she sells original patterns, wooden signs, and epoxy art.

Beginner to advanced scroll sawyers, woodworkers, and epoxy crafters will all have a blast expanding your woodworking skills and seeing all the possibilities of what you can make, with Making Custom Signs in Wood!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kendra Chura is a self-taught woodworker based in MI; her workspace is on a rescue farm she runs with her mom, and her favorite goats, Penny and Emmet, visit the shop regularly to watch her scroll.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 149710341X
• ISBN 13: 9781497103412
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible