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Default Engraving letters in wood bench - how to?

On Jun 29, 12:10 am, IGot2P wrote:
Ok, I have been Googling for some time without success so here I am.

I have a pine bench on which I want to engrave a 2" by 6" backrest board
with some lettering. I can print out exactly what I want in Corel Draw
and then transfer the outline to the board but where do I go from there?

The complete text will consist of letters 4.5" high that combine to be
approximately 6' in length. I could just take my router and go for it
but there must be several tips that would make the learning curve must
less steep. Any help of any kind would be greatly appreciated.....any
certain font? what bit(s) to use? anything that might help. Heck, even
if this is something that I should not try, please tell me.

Also, if there is one or more URLs out there that would provide some
help please point me to them.

Don


Hand cut them. Cheap Stanley butt chisels reground to a skew angle
should work great.