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Letters
Hi,
Am an occasional carver.
Making a desk tray in Cherry. Want to carve letters about 1/2" and then others about 2" high. Just a few-initials, and "in/out"
(Was going to inlay....Experiment did not go well)
I carved some larger letters for a sign a while back....a sign that would only be seen by a buncha drunks from a distance (true).
Any advise as to style/technique?
Thanks much.
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No idea as to "style" since you did not say what the tray was for other than "desk tray". If it is a business type of thing, that would pretty much dictate a business like font. Simple, to the point.
Carving them is a lot like chip carving, in fact you can use chip carving knives to do it.
I have done them with a full size straight skew chisel. Takes a bit of practice so you get the idea where the tip is without seeing it though. Of course, that is the same challenge with chip carving.
If you are doing a lot of them, you might think about having someone vcarve them with a cnc machine. Fast, accurate and consistent.
One of Wayne Barton's book has a good section on doing lettering.
Oh yea, about the style, you could head over to dafont.com. They have thousands of style that are free to download.
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Wonderful book on this, Michael Harvey's Creative Lettering Today
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ettering-today