Sign For Music Store
I play the organ and take a weekly group class at a local music store. Each group member plays the song of the week for other members. Most of us exhibit stage-front and tend to make mistakes when we play for the others in the group. Our mantra has always been as the sign indicates, I Play Better at Home! I decided to make a carved sign to hang on the wall at the music store to immortalize our little in-joke. I used a cabinet door I obtained from the overstock of a local cabinet maker that was prefinished. I used a CNC router to carve the lettering in a shadowed font and used blue and gold acrylics when I handpainted the letters. I also added the stylized music notes and painted them gold. This a "freebie" for all the students taking music lessons and hangs in a prominent place.
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About Me
I'm a 70 year old guy, retired in 2007, after 30 years of college teaching. I wanted to a good teacher, certainly better than most of the schmucks who taught me. I did OK but wasn't the "great" teacher I wanted to be. Then health issues forced an early retirement. I had always been interested in woodworking of the carpentry type, which I still do for personal projects. But I also discovered "creative" woodworking of a more artistic kind that I describe below and that's what I've been doing for the past 8 years.
My "Business"
I don't really have a company nor am I really in business. I'm a one-man hobby operation. I just use "The Old Man's Woodshop" on my non-business cards. I do rustic, simple wood projects: walking sticks and canes, small signs (house numbers, welcome, business, etc.), artistic wood carvings (can be hand-painted), small furniture, among other things. I also grow and decorate gourds as bowls, vases, birdhouses, animals, little people, creatures). What I do is not my livelihood and I'm not trying to make a lot of money. Mostly, I just want to make things that will please my customers. So far, so good. People seem pleased with the results of the 5 CustomMade projects I have completed. Similarly, that holds true for other people I done things for, e.g., several small business signs.
(To be continued)
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