Best woods for outdoor signs from Home Depot
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Episode #707 all of us have the option to go to a lumber yard in our area, but there are some great choices in Home Depot. Here's a list of some lumber that make great signs that almost everyone can get in your area.
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I am so glad i found your videos. I have been binge watching almost everyday,
Thanks so much Amanda. Happy you're enjoying what we do. Please let me know if I can answer any questions for you eric@makeawoodsign.com
Awesome!! Thank you, guys 😊👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Any time, man!
great info. Thanks
Any time, buddy!
Always enjoy your store road trips! Thanks for pointing out some great wood choices at Home Depot!
Thank you, Lori!
The Home Depot here definitely have a bigger selection to choose from. As always thank you guys for the great advice/tips and ideas.
Thanks Charles!
Shout out to you and Vicki, Eric...Cooler weather will get me back in the garage, carving...God Bless yall.
Thanks Bruce! Same to you, buddy.
Great info! Thanks, Guys!! 😊💕👍
Thanks Susan!
Great Job Guys/ Y'all Rock!!
Thanks Roy!
Good stuff guys. Thanks !
Thank you for watching and the compliments!!!
Very helpful video!
Thanks Mickey!
Nice. I learned something.
HAHA!! Glad we could help!
Great video.
Thanks Kurt!
Red wood fencing, here I come.
HAHA go get 'em Jim!
Loved the video, it would be great to see a list that we can keep in our phone or pocket when we go and purchase the wood from Home Depot/Lowes.
Thanks, buddy! Great idea!
Nice job EZ E...🤘🤘🤘
Thank you Dano!!!
Thank you
Happy to help. Thank you
Excellent video Eric, most of my projects are on fencing wood, works for me 😁👍
Thanks buddy! I like using the pickets. They make really nice signs
No cross pollination, fishtank.
Great video thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
Our pleasure, Robert!
Hi Eric. Would there ever be an instance when you would laminate the 3/4" Redwood pickets?
Great question buddy!!! Yes there is, But I would definitely rip to smaller pieces than 5" wide.
Probably no wider than 3" and I would put some kind of backer to keep it from cupping. We plan on doing a video on this soon.
More great info! However, I can never find the fencing boards here in Fort O, Georgia.
Thanks, buddy! Ya, it kinda depends on what's available wherever you're at
Hello from California: hoping you can help me with finding the right wood for a larger sign. I imagine I am looking at a 4 by 8 sheet of something. I need it to stain nicely. I am confused as to what thickness to get and which boards to get. For outdoor use. So glad I found your videos. Thank you!
Thank you for watching, I really appreciate it. I much prefer to use solid woods rather then plywood or sheet goods. However, there are very high quality plywood's available these days that may work for you. Just have to make sure they have lots of plys with no voids and the surface ply is thick enough not to sand through it. You can email me directly eric@makeawoodsign.com with more details and I will give you my best recommendations.
Thank you guys for this video what is your criteria for calculating the cost of making one sign. Is it time, complexity, involvement, wood preferences, id like to know how to move forward on a sign business. Also do you advise gluing boards together for bigger pieces thanks guy.
Thanks David! So pricing your signs takes a lot into account. We generally go off of size, amount of wording, type of wood, and complexity. We're actually getting ready to film a video on pricing pretty soon. There's a few videos dad has addressed on i. You can use the search bar and look up oldave100 pricing. They should pop up.
Other things that carve great and take paint well are PVC composite boards great for exterior, and foam board insulation for interior.
That's a great idea, Dana! Thanks buddy!
Great video!! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this.
At the 4:57 mark, he mentioned something about using Starbond to fill in the knots in the boards.
I am new to this stuff and I am not familiar with that product or the process of filling in knots.
So I was wondering if you can tell me what the product does and how it seals the knots in boards.
Any help you can give me I sure would appreciate.
Thanks again.
Thanks Joe! So check out video #661 and #471. We use starbond all the time to fill cracks and knots in boards. It works like a charm! If you have any other questions, shoot me an email and I'm happy to help. ryan@makeawoodsign.com
@@oldave100 Ok Ryan, I'll check those out.
Thank you so very much, buddy!! 😃
Any time, Joe!
The redwood fencing that's all I use for my cheaper signs the a finish on it comes out great l also like Home Depots selection alot better than Lowes plus Home Depot well cut them in 24 inch section for you
The redwood definitely makes some great signs!
Hey Eric and Ryan how much moisture content do you want in your pickets before using them. AZ where you guys are probably dries a whole lot faster than me in OR. lol I've been using a dehumidifier in my shop for the wood.
We generally want under 10% moisture. It definitely dries pretty quick put here😂😂
@@oldave100 Right on. I'll play around with drying out some the materials. The pickets I'm using for building some practice planters are reading like 45% right now. The kiln dried 2x4's I was using to build a lumber rack were 30-45%. Took 3-4 days running the dehumidifier to get them down 12-17%. I think HD left these materials out in the rain. Pain in the butt. lol
I wish we had access to Red Wood here. It's a premium priced wood for us on the Texas Gulf Coast.....and I can only find it at the specialty lumber yards....so they charge their "specialty" prices.
HAHA gotta love those "specialty" prices!
Frank, I too wish I could get hold of some redwood or nice cedar to carve a sign on, very hard to get any here in the Northeast, oh well maybe some day I will get lucky and find some.
Man I wish we had that type of selection here, No Redwood, No Cedar. Well I can order the cedar fence pickets, it is $2500 for a pallet., LOL. NOPE, my wife would kill me. In order to keep signs reasonably priced I use Poplar, I think it carves better than pine and here is cheaper than select pine. Thank you for another great video.
I always find it interesting what's available in different areas. Thanks for watching Len!
So basically any old board will do fine. So illuminating.
Actually, no. That's the opposite of what we said. Notice, we didn't use any "construction grade" lumber. No Douglas Fir or wall studs. Only finished boards. There was no whitewood, and also we pointed out what you need to look for in the stacks of wood. Maybe give it another watch, and you'll see what I mean.
I am concerned that such signs don't have adequate life. What do you expect for a sign life and what is reasonable?
It depends on what kind of finish you use, how much you use, the weather, how much direct moisture, etc.
Most signs have to be sanded off and refinished every couple years or so.
But we have business signs out there that are more than 10 years old
Although I prefer Home Depot for more things on a normal basis, I do have to say my Lowes has a much better and nicer selection of wood, Home Depot seems to be very picked over and a lot of scrappy looking stuff.
I agree. I definitely prefer Lowe's over Home Depot. Although, I was surprised at the selection they had this time.
Neither cedar nor redwood is available.
Ya, everywhere has a different inventory