The teaching staff at my wifes school has lost two long term teachers in the last two years. They are putting to gether a memorial garden to honor these teachers and asked me to build them an arbor for the garden. Our local 84 Lumber donated and even delivered the lumber to my house on Satruday morning. I decided to put it together in pieces (sides, top and stringers). One of the other teachers husbands is going to bring his truck over on Tuesday and we will go set the posts and return on Wednesday to install the top. Here are some photos of the progress so far.
I got an email from the art teacher today who is heading up this project wanting to know if I could carve some lettering into the face of the front stringer. She wanted it to read...A "YOUNG" PLACE. I told her that I had never done anything like it before but I would try. So I sat at my desk during lunch and played around with Microsoft Publisher and came up with and printed off a banner. I got home and taped the banner together and took a piece of transfer paper and copied it onto the face of the board. I then took my new birthday present and put in a .25 flat bottom bit and started very slow. To top it off I took the router and set up the edge guard for 1" and cut a groove all the way around the board also. It took me almost 2 hours to cut all of the letters but I am very pleased with how it turned out.
I got an email from the art teacher today who is heading up this project wanting to know if I could carve some lettering into the face of the front stringer. She wanted it to read...A "YOUNG" PLACE. I told her that I had never done anything like it before but I would try. So I sat at my desk during lunch and played around with Microsoft Publisher and came up with and printed off a banner. I got home and taped the banner together and took a piece of transfer paper and copied it onto the face of the board. I then took my new birthday present and put in a .25 flat bottom bit and started very slow. To top it off I took the router and set up the edge guard for 1" and cut a groove all the way around the board also. It took me almost 2 hours to cut all of the letters but I am very pleased with how it turned out.
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