Outdoor signs; wood selection, finishing recommendations, how to join boards for big signs

[jeyeager (Jason Yeager)]

@CG_Boatbuilder

Any insight on how well painters tape works to preserve a paint job after CNC?

I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve seen others have good results using Oramask or equivalent.

Engraved Wedding Sign

Made this the other night. Whipped it up quick for my cousin who is getting married. Once again some walnut that was milled from my farm. Bought some cheap, knock off, Oramask to test it out. It worked amazingly well! I had basically 0 bleed through the masking. I didn’t have the sharpest v-bit so on some of the finer details it tore the mask rather than cut but either way you can’t tell and turned out great! Will definitely be using this again in the future. [IMG_3723] However, if you look u…