#269

[@YankeeDave75B2O]

That was great! I am going to try to make one similar to that one for my brother. He was the one that took me pheasant hunting for the first time.

[@oldave100]

Right on, man! I love pheasant hunting👍👍

[@kbrandsr]

Much better explanation on depth and what bit you are using and why. Great lesson.

[@oldave100]

Glad to help. Thank you for watching, Eric

[@danielgamache3149]

That's a really nice template! Thanks again.

[@oldave100]

Thanks, Daniel!

[@brucepeter3409]

Awesome video demo Eric & Vicki! I'll probably be ordering some of the new templates in the near future. Guess I'm one of your fortunate viewers as I'm less than 25 miles from 4 different sawyers that I'm aware of that cater to the weekend hobbyist. The sawyer I now frequent has 18 different local species listed on his website that are usually have on hand and are ready for sale. He doesn't ship his product though, it's go there find what you want pay for it, load it, go home and make some sawdust. Yes Eastern Red Cedar is one of his biggest sellers.

[@oldave100]

Hi Bruce, thank you for watching my friend. Yes you are fortunate indeed to have access to some great material. Hope you a re well buddy, Have a Happy Easter...

[@robertricobaldi7781]

Really enjoy watching these videos. Very informative and truly inspiring. Thank you!

[@oldave100]

Thank you Robert, glad you like what we do...

[@johng8900]

I'm out in the New England area and Lowes sells the cedar boards. They sell cedar decking too. I take the cedar deck boards and cut off the rounded edges. Gives you a nice thick board with the cedar grain.

[@oldave100]

I have heard that. Your cedar decking is the equivalent to my redwood decking. I really like it for big signs.

[@vernonbrady3337]

Hi Eric. Some more very good info. I have access to a bunch of cabinet grade 3/4” plywood. Have you (or anyone else) ever routed this material? I would like to get your take on this before I ruin my bits. Thanks so much for all you, your Dad and Vicki do for us.

[@oldave100]

Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it. I'm not a fan of plywood for signs. Here's a video I did a while back that explains my take, kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHzbeZtsgbGenNU. Hope this helps, Thanks again, Eric

[@TheManWithTheHat]

GREAT VIDEO, and I sincerely apologise for neglecting your last few video, but Ive been very busy myself. Best wishes everyone

[@oldave100]

No worries buddy, me too...great to hear from you...

[@earlskayakfishing4416]

Eric. The cedar wood will get darker. A more brown color. The more clear coat you put on the darker it will get as well. I use just about all aromatic cedar. Great video again

[@oldave100]

Good to know Earl, Great to hear from you....Thank you, Eric

[@01hybrid]

This is a "great" video. You & your family continue to improve with your services. Love your prompt delivery of ordered products & I really noticed how your voice-over is so effective along with the added music. I think it's only fair, as a brand new student, that I try to encourage you folks as you always motivate me. I gotta try this Aromatic Cedar. Thanks, Larry.

[@oldave100]

We so appreciate Larry, Thank You!!!

[@murphsworkshop4214]

Nice Job Guys! I can almost smell the cedar (takes me back to my grandma's cedar chest)!! As Bob Hope would say "Thanks for the memories"! You guys are fearless and inspiring the way you jump into all the new technology, Keep it up! Later, Murph

[@oldave100]

Thank you my friend. Hope we can still keep evolving and trying new stuff.

[@augustcalderaro3797]

Very NICE work, you are really a fantastic artist!! Thanks for sharing!!! I do a fair amount of power carving with a dental drill but takes forever to carve. Looking forward to giving the router a whirl in my carving to reduce the amount of time spent. I have purchased bits suggested by other artist via u-tube and will try those but very impressed with your router bits. Thanks again. Also have a very Blessed and Happy Easter to you all!!! If you like I can send some pictures of what I have been carving??

[@oldave100]

Thank you so much for watching and the wonderful comments. I'm sure your experience with power carving will serve you well when routing signs. Happy Easter to you as well. Yes I would love to see some of your work, [e-mail].

[@robertarmstrong4180]

Eric in Australia we have lots of red cedar and looks very much the same and is softwood and good to work with. Bob

[@oldave100]

Makes beautiful signs. I would use it lots more if it was around me.

[@jimduhaime9]

thank you for your step by step easy to understand methods. For someone like myself this helps tremendously. Jim Duhaime, Enterprise, AL

[@oldave100]

You're very welcome Jim. Glad this was helpful for you. Thank you for watching and the kind words.

[@gregorywarner5758]

another great show, learned a little more love watching these vidos

[@oldave100]

Glad to help, Thank you for watching, Eric

[@emilkiyak2344]

nice carving. do you need sealer on that type of wood?like the new templates .

[@oldave100]

No sealer needed. Doesn't bleed like the pine.

[@darrinlindsey]

Eric, While you were carving with the SC50, you talked about the sawdust "burring up". Is this "burring up" what happens when the wood is too wet also?

[@oldave100]

Yes, there are several possible reasons for burring, but too much moisture is 1 possibility.

[@JimmyKoKo2]

Learned a lot this morning. Did my first craving Sunday. Had issues that you addressed today. The router base seemed to hang up on the primer. I’ll sand next time and silicone spray. Had issues holding a straight line. Any thing you can suggest to improve that? I’m sure practice will help. Have you decided what the Premier member template will be for April? Than you again.

[@oldave100]

On video #266 (7:30 mark) when I'm carving the stripes I show my hand position when holding the router. This really makes a big difference for me on holding a line. Yes Vicki has chosen the template for April. We'll be showing it on Saturdays LTS. Thanks again for watching, Eric

[@JimmyKoKo2]

Thanks. I rewatched that flag demo. Gave me some ideas of things to practice.

[@charliemarlenewuester5261]

You guys should come to Florida for vacation👍👍👍👍

[@oldave100]

Yes we should.... Sounds great to me...

[@charliemarlenewuester5261]

My wife manages a private condominium complex in Daytona beach shores hint hint

[@oldave100]

Humm, sounds interesting....

[@loristock407]

Thanks for another great video. I always learn a new "trick" or two.

[@oldave100]

Thank you Lori...

[@jimmucklin6860]

Eric, can we use the gunk or gasoline to clean these templates?

[@oldave100]

Gunk or gas cleans the ink, regular paint thinner cleans the primer.

[@jimmucklin6860]

Thanks

[@whitetailpoet4243]

Hi Dave. Thanks for your channel, good stuff. I am an old school brush lettering sign guy and want to branch out to add carved art work with my lettering on wood signs. Do you have any advice on basic tools I should start with and pricing guides for carving? Thanks for your consideration & peace from the lake country of Minnesota. David B. Ps; you have my sub!

[@oldave100]

Hi David, glad you're enjoying the videos. The basic tools you would need to start, saw for cutting your wood to size. Sander, drill, & router. For pricing I have several videos on that. Check out videos #49 and #115. If you have any more specific questions I can answer please email me directly [e-mail]. Thank you again for watching and the sub.

[@whitetailpoet4243]

Dave Rhoten Thanks for the helpful tips and the quick response sir. I have been messing around with some cutouts on weathered wood back drops and they're turning out nice. A woodworker friend has given me some nice slabs of various wood types so I'm excited too start broadening what I do, thanks again and God bless, DB

[@oldave100]

That's terrific, free slabs is always good. Let me know if I can answer any other questiond for you and Thank You again for watching, Eric

[@whitetailpoet4243]

Dave Rhoten Hi, Eric. I just realised I called you By your Dad's name... My bad!! Great family tradition ;-)

[@oldave100]

No worries, I get that all the time, I consider it a compliment. Thanks again, Eric

[@danyodice1048]

Nice job Eric and Vicki. That cedar is natural rot resistant also?

[@oldave100]

Good point... Thank you

[@jmp116]

I absolutely love aromatic cedar

[@oldave100]

Me too!!!

[@markduggan3451]

Another great video, I don't know if i'll be able to watch on Saturday (family coming down for Easter) but I will catch up. Did you manage to get in touch with the young girl from the last live broadcast? A question that I'd like answered is does it matter which way around you go to make a circle, I think I say somewhere that if you're going one way you get a better line. Thanks again and keep up the great work.

[@oldave100]

Thank you Mark, glad you enjoyed it. The LTS will be posted hopefully by the end of the weekend. Not sure if Vicki got in touch with the young girl or not. Each board and grain is different. Sometime clockwise sometimes counter clockwise. Depends on how the grain is lying in the board. What maters more is the sharpness of your bits. Thanks again for watching, Eric

[@markduggan3451]

Dave Rhoten thanks again.

[@rebdavblair6152]

were do you buy your wood for carving

[@oldave100]

Mostly my local lowes store. But the live edge stuff from reclaimed secrets out of Las Vegas.

[@rebdavblair6152]

@@oldave100 okay thanks

[@thestime]

Wow, the grain on that board ended up being perfect for that picture with the lake being a little darker than the sky. Great info on using the different bits and the depths for each. Looks like RIGID was watching your videos and designed a router that let in some light without having to cut a hole in it. It also has an LED but I believe just one, not two like the DEWALT. A quick note for you guys. If you modify the dewalt, you are cutting out the part of it that has the screw holes that you need to use the edge guide. That will probably void the warranty also. Hope that helps someone out there that may not want the added work of the dewalt modification. Oh, nice touch playing the music while you're routing! Love you three. Keep up the great work. God bless!!

[@oldave100]

Glad you enjoyed this one. I believe if you cut the housing at all you probably void the warranty. For me that's not an issue but you make a good point for someone that it might be. Also, I don't use edge guides so again that makes no difference for me.

[@thestime]

Dave, I know the router warranty and losing the edge guide capability is a non-issue for you but I have never heard you or your dad mention it in the router modification videos. Might be a good topic to bring up on one of your coffee and questions just to let everyone else know. Do you think that you will be phasing out the DeWalt and using the Ridgid now?

[@oldave100]

Good idea, I will put that on the list. I'm staying with the dewalt. I also use the ridgid on a regular basis. I keep my 60 degree bit in it.

[@kathywinn6869]

That’s so pretty!

[@oldave100]

Thank you...

[@darreneves4060]

What is the spray paint that you use? I’m in England

[@oldave100]

Several different kinds of spray. Check out Senior Moment Episode 18.

[@JackSmith-ud9bg]

How do you keep the pine from warping outside?

[@oldave100]

I use ZAR Exterior Polyurethane.

[@bigskydiy877]

which do you like better paste wax or silicone spray?

[@oldave100]

Definitely the paste wax....

[@Mrwolfpack85]

looks like fun. I need to get me a critter. the clear is costing me a fortune.

[@oldave100]

Dude, it saves a ton of money!

[@kyriesen2452]

Is this template still available anywhere?

[@oldave100]

Yes, here's the link on our website, www.makeawoodsign.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=351

[@RonSnayberger]

I took notice your voice over volume was way to low. Other than that. Excellent! Vicki, great patterns.

[@oldave100]

Yea I will work on that.

[@highperformancebassboats]

Egggggggggggggggggggggggggggslent !! I can get 1x12x10' cedar smooth on one side here in Odessa Tx for $60

[@oldave100]

That's a screamin' deal!!

[@mikejp007]

hey Eric are you speeding up the video speed when you play the music to the carving? you seem to be going pretty fast.

[@oldave100]

Yes I did speed it up to 2x normal. Still learning the different speeds and this editing stuff...

[@bobt2522]

The carving looks great. As a suggestion, you might tell what time zone you are in instead of saying it is Arizona time. I don't know the time zone for Arizona and I'm too lazy to search for it.

[@oldave100]

Good idea, get kind of confusing because 1/2 the year we are mountain time and the other 1/2 we are pacific time. Arizona doesn't do the daylight saving time change.

[@bobt2522]

I understand that. For a long time, Indiana did not observe daylight savings time. We have gone from confusion over what time it is to whining about the time change. To make it worse, for a short time, they moved the time zone line between my town and my work. That was very confusing.

[@Ghostwriter69]

That's a very nice piece of wood, and surely looks like a sunset. I've had Lowes get me some pretty nice western red cedar on occasion. You just never really know what you're going to get though.

[@oldave100]

Yea it always a crap shoot when ordering wood you can't see first. I've made that mistake before and I just don't do it anymore. Thank you for watching Skip, hope you are well.

[@eldonbeyea393]

Problem for me is I live in Canada ,I made a simple $30.00purchasecfrom your store that in the end was$70.00, well I do not begrudge you folks ytour price but the Government ruins everything as usual, much respect to you

[@oldave100]

We totally understand that. We're actually working on international shipping right now. Our goal is to get the cost down so people can actually afford the shipping. We're gonna get this taken care of.

[@oldave100]

Eldon, you can try ordering from our Ebay store. They have a great Global shipping program and the cost will probably be a lot less. Here is the link to the Ebay store.....Vicki www.ebay.com/usr/oldave100?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

[@MarilinMamolite]

Soy refan👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@oldave100]

Thank you!!!