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
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forget to follow us on Instagram @ToolsToday. 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
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