{"id":3559,"date":"2016-01-11T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:17","slug":"hand-carved-sign-the-best-is-still-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/hand-carved-sign-the-best-is-still-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand Carved Sign – “The Best Is Still Ahead”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"photo<\/a>African Mahogany – Approx 9 1\/2″ square, 3\/4″ thick – “Bead and Sausages” edges – lettering painted Red Oxide acrylic – Shellac finish<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>This one has been done, all but painting, for a long time. I finally painted and finished it this week.<\/p>\n

More carving, not just lettering, was what I wanted for this sign. The beads and sausages edging is classic. There are no rules on the ratio of beads to sausages. I used this arrangement to nicely fill the length of the edges. This edge decoration actually took about the same amount of time as the letter carving.<\/p>\n

The edges were first beaded using a scratch stock, run once from the face surface, and again from the edge. That created a bead that runs around the corner of the edge. Or put another way, the bead is almost 3\/4 of a round, not just a surface effect. Then, the carving commenced using only one gouge, one that fit the radius of the bead.<\/p>\n

The lettering is my own hand drawn design, with the style of “Best” derived from signs used about\u00a0century ago for shows, fairs and circuses.<\/p>\n

Learning to cut this free from style of lettering is not difficult. Mary May published a Christmas Greeting<\/a> lesson about carving a script style of lettering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  African Mahogany – Approx 9 1\/2″ square, 3\/4″ thick – “Bead and Sausages” edges – lettering painted Red Oxide acrylic – Shellac finish This one has been done, all but painting, for a long time. I finally painted and finished it this week. More carving, not just lettering, was what I wanted for this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lettercarving","7":"category-woodcarving","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}