How To Make A Rustic Wooden Letter Decoration

How To Make A Rustic Wooden Letter Decoration


What is up, my name is Koli welcome to building stuff. Today I am making a rustic wooden letter decoration for my mom for Mother's Day check it out [ Music ]. To help make the letters I created the text in Adobe, Illustrator and scaled it up. I looked through a bunch of different fonts that found this popular STD black, which was bold in a lil blocky, add as a second artboard and scaled the text up across both boards. This is an easy way to print across two pieces of paper, but if you don't have access to illustrator, you can also use another program like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. For me, it was quicker to do it in Illustrator from there I added a stroke for an outline and removed the fill color I reduced the size of the outline, so light could follow the lines more accurately and then finished up with a few tweaks to the Size and positioning the printed result looks like this. I cut each of the letters out and used some glue. Stick to paste the letters onto a couple pieces of weathered pallet wood. I tried to layout the letters in a way that would reduce waste of material, but considering this was some reclaimed: pallet wood, it probably didn't matter as much after laying the glue dry I took the plates for the miter, saw and cut each of the letters down And trimmed up the edges, I also trimmed the corners off of the S to make the easier to work with, on the scroll side, I drilled holes um harder to reach spots to help with cutting those areas out for some of the letters I used some larger Bits to clear out more material, this seemed to work for the ass, but for some of my other letters it took away a little too much material, leaving me with a rounded inner corner that I had to try to straighten out later. When I do it again, I will just use a smaller bit like I did with the end the fun part about this was breaking out. My new scroll saw that my wife got me. This was the first project game to use it so pro tip for you. If you want it to work, it helps if you plug it in you'll, also see that I make a couple mistakes with my setup here. I didn't quite tighten the foot clamp enough, so it slid down also the vibrations and forward pressure I put on the work pieces cause the whole tool from so securing the south probably would have been a good idea as well. However, once I pushed the saw up against the wall that seemed to sturdy enough to this, I mentioned before that trimming off the corners on the S would make cutting it out easier, and this was the exact opposite of the truth. Cutting them off left me with less material to hold on to so when I do this again, I will just leave the extra stuff on there. I'M definitely looking forward to doing more cut out projects like this in the future, but I clearly have some more learning. I need to do so if you have any good tips and tricks for using the scroll saw I'd love to hear them. Please leave your ideas and suggestions in the comments below. While I do that. I just wanted to take a quick minute and tell you thanks for checking out my channel if you'd like to support my work, these videos and future projects, the easiest way you can do that would be to subscribe and hit the notification button. So you can be notified when I post a new video, and if you like this video a thumbs up and a quick share, would go a long ways with helping me out thanks again for checking us out and let's get back on with the build. After all of the letters were cut out, I took each one to the sander to smooth out the cuts and shape them to the lines I've seen quite a few people use this technique and it seemed to work well for these also. I didn't notice this until watching this myself, but it looks like my sander was wandering as well. Guess I'll have to figure out a way to secure that too. I removed as much as the papers. I could by just pulling it off and then use a scraper and wire brush to remove in pieces. I wanted to keep the rough weather look on these letters, but if you're going for more of a finished look, you could definitely just stand the faces and it would be a lot easier and quicker to remove those extra pieces of paper using a rounded file and Rasp I cleaned up the inside edges on the spots I kind of reached it with the sander from there. I added some additional weathering to the cut edges of each of the letters by going over them with a wire brush and scratching them with the rest. I definitely wanted to maintain that rustic weathered feel with these, and this was just the right touch to help those cut edges blend back in next. I made the base for the letters by figuring out the spacing for the letters and cutting the board to length on the miter saw. I then ripped the board to the right width on the table saw before attaching the letters to the base. I sanded over the edges and corners and some of the more rough surfaces. I lined up each of the letters again this time marking their positions where I would mount them to the base. At this point, I realized that a couple of my letters were varying the thickness, so I made sure they were lined up on the front edges rather than the back that way it wasn't as noticeable it didn't matter too much, but in the future, when I make Something like this again, I will probably try to make the sizes more uniform after marking their positions, I clamped each of the pieces into place and began gluing them up one by one. I had debated about just using a brad gun to assemble these, which I think would have been a lot faster and less messy, but at the time I did have any Brad's that were the right length. So I just went with the glue a couple of the pieces like the s and I were a bit tricky to just glue and bam from the top. So after the other letters had dried, I drilled some holes in both the base and the letters and use of small dowels to join them together. In hindsight, mounting the other letters. This way would have been a good option as well. The s was a bit tricky to clamp from the top, so I ran a bolt through his bottom curve and put a piece of scrap underneath I use the clamp on each side to apply pressure while driving once those finished drawing the edges and corners were looking A little too sharp, so I sanded them down with some medium grit sandpaper. I mean my life a little harder by doing this after it was all assembled, but I hadn't really noticed that until it was all put together for finishing, I started with a homemade stain that helps, keep the wood a more weathered. I started with a rag but finished with a brush to get into the tighten ups and corners after the stain dried. I actually really liked the way it looked without anything else, but since I was giving this to my mom, I wanted to match the weather paint. Look that is on the other decorations. I taped off the front areas I don't want paint getting on. I then started with some white acrylic craft paint and a chip brush to dry brush on a base layer. In this case, I just wanted a cheap brush. That would leave streaks and a more uneven surface after letting the paint mostly dry. I took the scraper and roughed up the surface. This kind of weathering can be a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it because you can really experiment and week it to get the look that you're going for added, more layers and scraped up the surface after each layer had mostly dried. Luckily, it only takes a few minutes for this kind of paint to set up enough to move on to the next layer using a wire brush and rasp also helped with getting the look I was going for and taking up the painted, I added a layer of Peach colored acrylic paint this time using a foam brush to just kind of dull up the paint on in small patches after scraping these down and gave the paint a more chip. Look that I really liked. I did one more layer of white with the same techniques. My little guy came out and visited me in the shop and wanted to help with this part, so we used the chip brush to smear the white patches a little and take some of the excess paint off when the final layer had dried. I repeated the same process one last time and then removed the tape and then sealed the piece off with a layer of clear coat and there it is I'm pretty happy with how it turned out again. If it were me, I would have probably left the paint off, but I definitely think that my mom is going to like it. Then again she is my mom, so I guess she kind of has to thanks again for watching. Let https://felixfurniture.com/best-dovetail-jigs/ know what you thought of this project in the comments down below, don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you in the next video [ Music ]. You

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