Erik, What a beautiful classy looking piece of glass work, restraint in design can often work well with glass, the surface treatments and gold or mirror do the work and the design just acts as the vehicle for this. I'd employ your mum in your design department, she's obviously got a good eye. Whats ...

Thanks for sharing this incredible example of craftsmanship with us. It is hard enough to order the processes and techniques of this piece, let alone to actually produce it. The engraving is mind blowing
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Ash

Thanks for sharing this incredible example of craftsmanship with us. It is hard enough to order the processes and techniques of this piece, let alone to actually produce it. The engraving is mind blowing
Thanks
Ash

Hi Jeff, your sign looks fantastic, especially the angle of the fitted sign. I used oak faced MDF which was an offcut from an honours board for this sign. I have used PVC or HDU in the past too. I spaced it off the glass by 1/8" when making the wooden frame so that the air can circulate. My lon...

Hi Dave thanks for the kind comments. Over the last ten years I've made around twenty large glass and carved fascia signs. On an early one I let the carving OSS to the rear of the glass, during fitting this scuffed the paint on the rear of the glass. Ever since then I have spaced them off the glass ...

Thanks for that Andy, we spend most of our lives making signs to customers designs which are on the whole uninspirational, it's great when once in a while a customer comes along who understands that it's better to give a rough idea and let the sign maker decide whats best. I dropped by your workshop...

Thanks Danny, I well remeber meeting with you at Rick's, you showed me a brush box you had made on the cnc, that was a great router project. I did not take any photo's during the making of the sign. I first hand drew a design scanned it in and cleaned it up. Then acid etched the glass and applied th...

Nearly every few days for years I've visited this excellent forum and read with much interest what incredible work pals of many years across the world have been producing and what thoughts they are sharing. It's high time I contributed and stop just staring from the sidelines. It's great to see Perr...