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 have a blast building your woodworking skills and seeing all the possibilities of what you can make! Also included are 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!
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[*]A complete DIY beginner's guide to making small wooden signs and personalized keepsakes
[*]Learn all techniques you need to create your own personalized signs and gifts for special occasions (weddings, birthdays, birth announcements, holidays) and for everyday use (welcome signs, kids' room sign, decorative wall art)
[*]Includes detailed opening overviews on tools, materials, safety, scroll saw basics, applying a pattern, troubleshooting, and other fundamental skills
[*]Features step-by-step tutorials for a variety of sign making techniques organized by difficulty, from cutting lettering, adding a graphic, painting, and making backers and frames to adding epoxy resin, woodburning, engraving, plastering, and more
[*]Contains step-by-step projects as well as practice patterns
[*]Author and self-taught woodworking artist and sign maker 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.com where she sells original patterns, wooden signs, and epoxy art