On 8/27/2010 10:07 AM, John wrote:
On Aug 26, 7:02 pm, wrote:
So... a few questions that I can think of: can you biscuit join
Cedar? How thick would you need? How would you finish it? (how would
you paint it?)

Thanks,

John

I'm not sure a pin router is the best bet for a sign, if you mean
routed letters into the wood, as opposed to making individual letters
that would latter be glued or attached to a sign. With pin routers you
attach a blank to a pattern and rout the blank to the shape of the
pattern. It is not a panagraph type stereo tracing thing.

Hmmm... I would have thought that if you wanted to go all the way
through, you would simply use a guided bit. But if you didn't want to
go all the way through (like say on a sign...). I was looking at
signs like this http://www.canadianimpressions.ca I can't tell
whether the letters were glued on for this, but the closer I look, the
more I think you might be right about that.

Also, this guy mentions 'sand-blasted cedar'... I happen to have a
sandblaster... boy this weekends going to be fun!

He has a cut vinyl sign business as well. I would bet that he cuts the
pattern on his vinyl cutter, sticks it to the cedar, and then sandblasts
and everywhere that there's no vinyl gets cut away.

(Check out the funny signs bit of the link above. I had a good
laugh.)

John