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10-16-2009, 06:14 PM
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#1 | | Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done. Name: Dan City: Lincolnton State: NC County: Lincoln Join Date: Jun 2009 Age: 40  10-16-2009, 06:14 PM
Have some interest in making some signs and was cruising youtube. Like the title says, if this is this guys idea of a how to I'm dead in the water for sign making. .gif "Drogar BigGrin(DBG)")
I'm guessing he's made a few signs before.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN_7p...eature=related | | Views: 556 | |
10-16-2009, 06:26 PM
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Name: Jim Campbell City: Hillsborough State: NC County: Orange Join Date: Feb 2006 Age: 39 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
Whoah! Thats pretty wild.
That tip of painting the whole thing, then planing off the surface to get the letters black, that was just fantastic!
We'll wait till you have a few signs under your belt before we get out our stopwatch 
Jim
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10-16-2009, 06:38 PM
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Name: Jeff City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Feb 2009 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 5.83 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
I seen DaveO move that fast. It's true | |
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10-16-2009, 07:01 PM
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Name: Joe City: Holly Springs State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 66 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
Whad ya say?
I said" I wonder if he's deaf by now!" | |
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10-16-2009, 07:08 PM
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Name: Mike City: Westfield State: NC County: Stokes Join Date: Dec 2005 Age: 52 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
That is pretty much the standard operating procedure for making routed signs. He's super fast because people don't like to wait. He probably does that all day every day and travels all over the country setting up at shows, malls and fairs.
I knew a guy who could brush letter your name in 10 seconds or less and it looked good too. He could paint, letter and decorate a car tag in less than a minute then set it under a dryer for a few minutes. He did thousands of them every year.
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10-16-2009, 08:03 PM
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Name: Mike City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Oct 2006 Age: 41 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 3.31 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
I saw the same thing done by a different guy at the "Apple Butter Festival" in Berkley Springs, WV. The guy was there year after year at the same spot. He must have made tens of thousands of signs.
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10-16-2009, 09:04 PM
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Name: John City: Seneca State: SC County: Oconee Join Date: Jun 2009 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 0.94 over 171 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
You mean that's not how everyone did it?
It was pretty straight forward after reading the directions that came with my Router...
Isn't that what the free blue bit is for?
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10-16-2009, 09:13 PM
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Name: Steven City: Arthur State: WV County: Grant Join Date: Aug 2008 Age: 43 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 5.60 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
Originally Posted by MikeF  I saw the same thing done by a different guy at the "Apple Butter Festival" in Berkley Springs, WV. The guy was there year after year at the same spot. He must have made tens of thousands of signs. I think that the same guy was at the Apple Butter Festival in Burlington WV and the Treasure Mountain Festival in Franklin WV this year also. I can't think of his name but he sure can freehand some nice signs quick too. I barely get a sign routed with templates. Steve   | |
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10-16-2009, 10:26 PM
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Name: Ken City: Whittier State: NC County: Jackson Join Date: Mar 2009 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.61 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
1st thing I noticed was NO ear plugs  but then as fast as he is ,he's done before the noise reaches his ears .gif "Drogar Laugh(DBG)") heck he makes a sign before I can get the dang board cut off .gif "Drogar Cry(DBG)") I think he been a practicin 
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10-18-2009, 12:34 AM
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Name: Jeff City: Goldsboro State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Sep 2009 Age: 26 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 5.62 over 56 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
Originally Posted by boxxmaker he makes a sign before I can get the dang board cut off I think he been a practicin Yea, I barley kept up watching him make a sign.... Thats way more impressive than the airbrush guy!!! | |
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10-18-2009, 10:53 AM
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Name: Matthew City: Goldsboro State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 28 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 3.38 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
I am gonna have to try that~!
Wow that was Cool~!
So what type of wood do you think he uses? I mean that's not Hard maple for sure. Do you think it's just a pine 1x4?
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10-18-2009, 11:18 AM
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Name: Jim M. City: Wilmington State: NC County: New Hanover Join Date: Mar 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.73 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
I didn't want to say anything... but I was applying for a job working with him and That's really how I cut off the end of my thumb! Jim 
BTW... I didn't get the job and he sold the sign too!
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10-18-2009, 02:50 PM
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Name: Alan Schaffter City: Washington State: NC County: Beaufort Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.69 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
I've seen guys like that at big amusement parks like Kings Dominion and Disney. They are fast and usually have a kiosk next to airbrush T-shirt painters, candle carvers, etc. If you had any skill to begin with, I would bet after doing the same thing all day, 5-6 days a week, you would get pretty good and become pretty fast. The process is all part of the show too. | |
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10-23-2009, 06:29 PM
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Name: Derek City: Newport News State: VA County: Newport News City Join Date: Oct 2009 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 4.43 over 49 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
Originally Posted by Alan in Little Washington I've seen guys like that at big amusement parks like Kings Dominion and Disney. They are fast and usually have a kiosk next to airbrush T-shirt painters, candle carvers, etc. If you had any skill to begin with, I would bet after doing the same thing all day, 5-6 days a week, you would get pretty good and become pretty fast. The process is all part of the show too. I liked the "flare" with the spray can; reminded me of that classic 80's movie Cocktail... Now if he could flip a 2 1/2 HP router up in the air and catch it I'd really be impressed! | |
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10-30-2009, 08:24 AM
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Name: Andrew City: Durham State: NC County: Durham Join Date: Jan 2009 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 0.66 over 180 days | Re: Umm... If this is a how to... I'm done.
Repetition, repetition, repetition. I bet if you gave him a chisel and a mallet he'd be lost and couldn't do it, no matter how much time you gave him. It's all about knowing the tool, doing it a few hundred thousand times, and then doing it again.
My problem is that I would apply that router to my head if I had to do something that many times. I'm just not a repetition kind of guy. Which just means that when it comes to woodworking, I'm always lousy. 
But I have fun. To me, that does not look like fun. It looks like a special kind of ****.
But it takes all kinds. I'm glad some people do like to perfect one thing and do it extremely well. If everyone was like me, all my furniture would be junk.
AAAndrew
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