More Woodworking

[Koz]

Since I moved to GA I haven't done much woodworking because I've been busy with work at the hotel, lack of work space, and the weather. The house I rent doesn't have a garage, and all of my equipment is crammed into a screened in porch. But recently I had the need to complete a project.

 

One nice thing about my hotel is that the owner gives me a lot of leeway with just about everything. One of those things was designing a new logo for the property as well as coming up with a new color palette for everything from the logo and stationary to the guest room remodeling. This is all part of repositioning the hotel in the market.

 

When I got to the hotel, the front desk reception area was U-G-L-Y and I knew it had to change. That area had this ugly, 17 year old yellow/gold wall vinyl with a picture of a local golf course on the main wall. I knew it had to change, but it wasn't in my renovation budget. So I spent about a three weeks pulling down the wall vinyl, repairing and floating out the walls, and then painting the area. It took that long because as GM I have more pressing duties.

 

I also wanted to put our new logo on the wall behind the front desk. The trouble is I didn't have the budget to have it made out of metal (my preference) or even cut in wood with a CNC machine. So I decided to do it myself. The logo itself was easy. It was cutting the lettering that I was unsure about.  I'm no stranger to woodworking and enjoy making simple furniture, serving trays, and other things but cutting out script letters would be near impossible with a jig saw or any other tools that I had. So I figured, what the heck - I'll buy a scroll saw. How hard can it be, right? It looks easy on the Youtube videos.

 

It wasn't as easy as I thought, especially working with 1/8" thick project board. I broke a few letters along the way, but with some practice and some sandpaper I think it actually came out pretty good. The wall background was the perfect color to make the logo pop. The ironic thing is now I'm considering buying my own CNC machine when I move into a new house with a garage later this spring.

 

I've attached some photos below, but you'll note I blurred out part of the name so as not to violate any policies on promoting my business on this forum. But you can see some of the lettering I cut.

 

 

[jbsoonerfan]

That looks great!!!!!

[Glenn]

1 hour ago, Koz said:

but you'll note I blurred out part of the name so as not to violate any policies on promoting my business

Nah, this would be an example when that policy wouldn't apply here.

[Deleted account]

If the GM does construction and renovations, who folds the towels into swans?...

[Koz]

6 hours ago, Glenn said:

Nah, this would be an example when that policy wouldn't apply here.

Thanks. Then here's photos without the blur effect. Right now the logo is held up with velcro picture tags, but once I have the nerve I will glue it. I need to trace the letters as well, because getting the correct angle and lining them up is a pain.

 

[Tennessee Boy]

Very nice work

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                                                      

[Skunkmaster-k]

Very nice 

[GaryH]

That’s some nice craftsmanship. Great job

[GReb]

Looks great. Simple script is very nice in today’s world of bold colored clunky block letters 

[Koz]

1 hour ago, GReb said:

Looks great. Simple script is very nice in today’s world of bold colored clunky block letters 

It's a font called Blacksword. I probably spent 3 hours looking at different fonts on different websites and trying them out to see how they looked. As soon as I typed our hotel name in that font I knew it was exactly what I wanted.

 

It was a challenge for a newbie like me to cut on the scroll saw. Veterans could easily whip through it in no time on a continuous cut, but I plodded along. It took two tries to get the letters cut halfway  decent and then a lot of sanding to get to the finished product.

 

I have to say I am proud of the finished product. At one point I was afraid I bit of more than I could chew. Fun Fact: I covered front desk shifts over the holidays so my associates could have some time off. Since the hotel was slow, I set the scroll saw up at the front desk and cut the letters right there. It actually turned out to be a great talking point with guests. 

[DitchPanda]

Thumbs up

[GreenPig]

Excellent job. You should be proud.

[Log Catcher]

Excellent work. 

[whitwolf]

Well done!

[Sam]

Outstanding!

 

You are an excellent craftsman.

 

Thanks for sharing.