Hey guys. How's it going?
Today I’m going to show you how I made this sign for our property. While it's not an
actual National Park, that's what we call it. We absolutely love it. We also do have the plans for
this available on our website so definitely check that out -- there's a link down in the description
for those if you want to make this yourself. So anyways, without further ado, let's get into it.
Starting on our new project here. Applying some Oramask 813 down to it. I’m going to be making
a National Park sign for our property. We do have the designs available on our website so
definitely check those out there. We kind of joke and call it that. But this will definitely
be a really nice piece, a nice sign to have there. I’m using one and a half inch thick HDU foam
and just adding all of the tools that I’m going to be using to the tool holder and getting that
sucked down to the Stepcraft Q.408 vacuum table. I’m starting off here with the RC-1102 90
degree V-insert bit. I’m going to carve out all of the text first. We're just going
through the Oramask and this is leaving a really nice perfectly clean cut through
that, and through the HDU foam as well. This is my first time really using HDU for a large
project like this and it carved really nicely If you love this type of content be sure to
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So we'll just finish up getting all of that text carved in and then we're going to go through
around the outside of it, making a large chamfer on there. This bit is plunging in here at over
a half inch in a single pass and doing a really nice job leaving that deep chamfer. It's really
cool to see this bit going through that material and creating all those stringy shavings. It's
definitely a different material than wood. But this chamfer is definitely going to add
quite a bit to this piece and I really like the way that it ended up looking.
So we’ll get that vacuumed off and then now that that part is done, I’m gonna go ahead
and paint the text. I’m using General Finishes Snow White milk paint as kind of my go-to
for signs like this, and we'll put an outdoor finish over the top of it after it's all dry,
So I just showed a little bit of that painting and I got everything else painted as well.
So now we'll switch out for the 46202-K quarter inch down-cut bit for the rest of the details.
We're going to be doing a flat bottom v-carve, so this is essentially going to go through
and remove all of the majority of the waste. So it's taking out all of the larger areas, and
then we'll come back with the v-bit here after all that's done to pick up all of those fine details.
It's just going through and doing its final pass here on this portion of the sign, then we can
get that all vacuumed off. Normally you would have the vacuum running or the dust collection
running here but for video purposes we leave the dust collection off. So we clean it
off in between each sign, that way we can see all of the detail that it's picking up.
So we switched out for the RC-1148 60 degree V-insert bit and this is going to go through and
do all of the fine details. You can see it along that edge. Basically it's just getting it down
to its final size; and then up here on the tree it's picking up all the fine details
there, and then on the forest line as well. One of the most satisfying parts of this project
was definitely seeing it carving out the deer from the rough shape that was left from the
clearance bit.It's really cool to see basically the whole deer family come to life and pick up
all those fine details that were in the design. So I really enjoyed seeing that aspect of it,
and this bit did a great job with all of that. I’m really happy with the way that the V-carve
turned out. With flat bottom V-carves it's often that you can get height differences
but this machine handled it perfectly and I got a really nice accurate flat
bottom V-carve without any clean up needed. So we can switch out for the 46315-K quarter inch
up-cut bit and this will just cut out the profile. This bit is the bit that I had on hand. It doesn't
have quite the cutting height of the material, but we'll show you how to work with
thicker stock here in just a little bit. So we removed all of the material down to the
one inch cut height of the bit. Got that all vacuumed off, and then I’ll get it pulled off of
the table. This sign is really starting to come together and I really like the way that it looks.
So we'll get it moved over to the workbench and I’ll do a little bit of painting. I taped
off the areas that don't need it, then I did several coats of paint. I just showed one
here, but I did several to fill out the design. I want to use keyhole slots to hang this so I’m
using the 45650 keyhole bit to do that. Basically I got it flipped over and I added the tool to the
auto tool changer; pick that up, and then now I’m going to do a test keyhole slot just to make
sure that I have all of these settings correct. So basically it's going to go down, and
move over, and then come back, and up, and out of the exact same hole that it went in.
You can see that we have a nice keyhole slot here. These screws will work well. So we're
gonna do it on the actual piece. We went through and I added two of those. This will
definitely help with the curvature of the tree, allowing me to get it nice and secure on the tree.
So we did both of those slots. Really happy with that. And now we'll get that pulled off of the CNC
for the last time. So then we're going to get the tape removed around the outside. And now we're
just going to move over to the band saw here to cut out the remaining area. So like I said,
if you had a larger cut-height bit you could certainly do that. This is a great way to work
with thicker materials on smaller CNC machines. So it's a great option for somebody that wants to
work with those thick materials. You can also use something like a jigsaw, as that will also cut
this material really well as you can see here. It does a great job with that if you don't have
a full band saw. So like I said it's a really nice way to work with thicker material.
So then we'll get switched out for the flush trim bit. This is the 47092 quarter inch
diameter flush trim and that will basically have the bearing right along where we cut and then it
will trim everything perfectly flush to that. This will get into all those same areas that I was able
to get into with that quarter inch bit so it'll leave everything exactly the way that we want it.
So we just go around the entire workpiece and get that all flush trimmed. The HDU is fairly dusty.
Unfortunately I don't have the dust collection on the fence, since we're videoing this. Wouldn't
be very fun to watch a fence the entire video. So we got that all done and now I’m
going to switch out for the 49400 45-degree chamfer bit. And we're just going to
go along the outside. I’m going to do this in two passes to match the chamfer that we have on the
front edge. Make it look a little bit more like an arrowhead and I really like the way that it looks.
So I’m going through here on two passes. With this particular material, since it's a softer HDU foam,
I probably could have done this in a single pass, but I just wanted to be safe and
take two passes. That's a lot for the bit to take out in a single pass.
So we got that done. The profile matches really well. And I’m just going to kind of
ease over those edges, just a little bit, to make the painting process a little bit easier.
Now that I’ve got everything taped up on the front side, we can paint the back side and the
sides as well. Again I did several coats here, this is just the first one. And now
we can get the masking r.emoved. My kids and wife stopped by with some
lunch, and Caity wanted to see the sign. and then here yeah which one do you think is you? yeah you're right you are right mama you know those deer are us? I definitely love having her come see the
shop. So I’m using a hook weeding tool here to help remove all of the masking. It definitely
helps to lift that up and pull it off a lot easier. It's really satisfying to see the masking
coming off and it definitely did a nice job keeping the paint out of where I didn't want it.
So again I’m going to use some General Finishes Snow White milk paint. I started off trying to
do this with a towel. I think I had too much paint on there so I switched to a foam brush
and I tried to do like a rippling effect here. I’m going to layer this with blue on top of it.
The brown would have made it kind of a darker blue. So this will kind of lighten things up.
Then I’ll use some General Finishes Klein Blue milk paint and you can see me wiping it
off there. And again I’m going to try to do a ripple effect here to make it look a
little bit more like water. And it actually worked out pretty well. I was kind of impressed
with how well it worked and I really think that it turned out nicely. So we have that all done. Now
I got a little jig set up here to spray the finish on. I’m using Helmsman Spar Urethane. We do sell
that on our website. It's a great outdoor finish and worked really well for this project. Again I
did several coats here but I just showed the one. So we can move out to the property now
and get the sign all installed on this tree. This tree faces our driveway so
I’ll see it every time coming home. So that's gonna do it for this sign. I
really hope that you guys enjoyed it but stay tuned and we'll do some walking around
the woods and let my daughter finish it out. park out and then we have the
deer family and then what's that and then what is this and daddy
can you like mama good job boo yeah that'll be a good web whacker keep the webs out of our face yeah big jump whoa nice jump it's too big of a treat huh yeah i don't know yeah maybe we could make it part of a treehouse in books yeah you sleep in a treehouse Thank you guys so much for watching.
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