"Mekon" wrote in message
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Hello all.

I want to create a few presentation awards for fellow thespians and need a
way to write on the wood words along the lines of "Presented to ...."

My penmanship has degraded further from it's sorry state pre computers
with the advent of the laser printer, so I doubt I would be happy with
burning the text freehand using the pyrography tools I've seen.
Further, I don't need to burn the text on there as long as it can be seen
and read once hung on the wall.

Short of getting someone more skilled than I to do it or affixing a brass
plate, what are my options?

TIA

Mekon



You can also use a printer to print your text, pierce it with a needle for
an outline and then
take a finer dremel or flex-shaft bit and indent the writing. Label strips
also work well.
I prefer a stippling technique for this and, if done carefully, the results
can be more graphically impressive than pyrography. For an added touch, you
can paint the wood for contrast before doing the engraving.

Regards,

Edward he