The making of a small shop shelf sign.

My recent idea is to put together a starter pack for shop outlets to stock my creations.  
Making the jewellery is like second nature but I thought the pack should come with 
my logo for the shop shelf. 
And here is what happen.

First idea was to use a piece of perspex 20cm x 10cm.

The tools required were, plus a few hand tools.

A saw

A router/dremel

A chunk of wood

A sand blaster plus compressor.

 

The Craft ROBO cutter for making the stencil

 

A brief story of how to make the shop logo sign.

My wonderful partner Sue of Inspired by Script, an excellent calligrapher turned wedding stationary specialist had already designed my logo a couple of years ago. She used the original to scan and then set her Craft ROBO cutting the A4 piece of sticky backed vinyl.

Once the stencil was made I attached it to the perspex. 

The compressor was turned on and my little sand blaster was loaded with the abrasive, this time it was aluminium oxide, I etched within the stencil cutouts. After all the sand blasting was done, I removed the stencil and washed the perspex under water, making sure I did not cause any unwanted scratches.

The Base

As for the base, The chunk of wood was routed with the Dremel to a depth of 5mm to allow the sign to sit into it. Then I cut to approximate size using a saw. With a bit of planing and sanding I had the desire smooth feel to the piece of wood. A quick seal of Bee's wax and the sign foot was finished.

Then with a bit of hot glue I attached the perspex in the rebate and there you go. 

The finished sign in perspex, or is it!!!!!!

I then decided to go through all this again but this time using glass as the sign material. 

I much prefer the glass one. The image looks so much more crisp. 

After all I do work in glass so that should have been my first thought.

My New Glass Shop Sign.

And that's about it. Now I just need to get this sign and a few of my jewellery pieces into a shop.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed another one of my sometimes crazy little makes.
Steve 

A Dremel, some Dichroic glass and inspiration is all you need! Part 1

A Dremel, some Dichroic glass and inspiration is all you need!

Inspiration usually comes first and that was the case this time. I had the idea of instead of adding extra glass to glass for affect I decided to take it away. They say less is more, LOL.

So out came my trusty Dremel with diamond bit in and I started grinding away the expensive Dichroic layers. These are what I came up with, I started on these designs because I have a camp the end of this month that I think these might go down really well.

Five hand cut and hand ground dichroic glass pendants complete with top glass, waiting to be fired. I just cant wait to see how these turn out.

Here is a previous one I did, completely finished and sold. The is a little distortion to the edge of the Dichroic but I think that adds to the handmade look.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steve