 We just made the biggest easiest glow forge farmhouse sign that we've made so far and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back? Do you like to do a building to make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week? We're building the easiest Biggest a glow forge farmhouse sign that we have made yet Well, I came across these boards in the store Think we were at Lowe's we got these at Lowe's weathered wood decorative wall planks So these are not ship lap and they are not barnwood. They're two different boxes. They are its own thing Yeah, they're decorative wall planks and what I thought about these I See how they're already painted and they're just flat boards They didn't have the ship lap sides and I thought to myself I think these would make a really cool farmhouse sign, but then once I got them here I noticed that they're pretty thin. I don't know if you can see that they're five sixteenths They look like a quarter inch, but they're just slightly bigger a little bigger So then I was thinking it could we put this in the glow forge and do something cool with it with the glow forge And so we've come up with a project today that I think will be cool I think it's cool Yeah, we can use the glow forge to do something different kind of make a project a farmhouse sign But make it easy and then yeah, the easiest. Yeah, I mean really easy Yeah, I think this is gonna be relatively quick project I want to cut some letters out and then score this so we'll have perfect placement. Yes Perfect, that's what the glow forge is gonna give us the ability to not have to figure out where the placement is now I know you're probably thinking as we did originally you can cut your letters out on a board and Then the the cutout would be your perfect placement and it works Pretty well But the problem with that method is if you leave it down and place your letters if you pick it back up again Especially with a bunch of little letters they pop up and they make a mess or you can glue it in the frame Which Garrett was like You glue it in the frame, but then the frame gets glued down So this is what I think is a third alternative that I think is gonna make it even easier. I think so, too Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. Well, we needed the planks because that's the whole reason for the project Now we'll say these do come in 48 inch lengths looks like four of them at 48 and then A couple yeah, these were hidden on the inside. I didn't read the box clearly So I thought I'd let you know there are a couple of others varying lengths like 18 inches and 24 inches I guess something like that something like that Then we needed some quarter inch MDF have two sheets of 12 by 20 We needed some black paint Some masking tape some little five eighths inch brad nails or if you don't have brad You can use this a traditional gorilla glue and clamp them together Yeah, that will hold to it will it will definitely hold Step two, we're gonna make our design. I'm gonna mock something up an illustrator Test it out with Kim. I think we'll make it a real thing. Yeah, this one's gonna say family It's gonna be a family sign. We did one once before That said it's good to be home, but this one I wanted to say family So I did look for something a little sassy to say. I thought that would be funny But I couldn't find one I really like so we're going with traditional something traditional something safe Yes Before I start designing I want to get the actual measurements I mean, I know it says that they're five by five or 5.5, but I don't believe it There's a good reason three of them is only 14.75 So I'll to remember that and it's only like 47 inches so All right, well close it up. Okay, we're in illustrator. The first thing I'm gonna do is set up my art board So that is the size of our boards So it's 48 wide And it was 14 point 14.75 tall Right next I'm gonna put my words in there. It is family big We can read it And a whole shift and drag one of the anchor points out so it stays Uniform I'm gonna copy control C paste control V This is all lowercase That's everything Those can wait Full shift grab and grab an anchor point shrink it. All right now. I have the fonts that Kim would like to use This one is a source code variable Let's try this worse Regular. All right, and everything else can wait is those Ceda Ceda bright. All right Let's put a border on this so I'll know where we're where we're at. So I'm gonna add a layer New layer box. Let's make it red And we're gonna make it 1.25 inches wide and 14 inches tall Paste Paste old shift to grab an anchor point boom boom Goes on this 45 copy paste All right I'm gonna add a stroke. Nope. I'm not that looks fine So I'm gonna create outlines. This makes a cuttable and then I'm going to Unite everything so that they're all one you see how the a Has two pieces to it We'll unite it. So that's all one Think a little bit bigger Think a little bit bigger I'll make this one a little bit smaller Just making it fit in there All right, I want the same spacing between the bottom of the words and Next words so paste one more You're gonna add a stroke to this to make it a little bit thicker. So I'll make a black stroke I'm really worried about that eye that why it's thick enough with three points One more We'll leave it at four looks good. Looks good for I'm worried about this why make sure it cuts. It doesn't just burn up. Let's shrink it just a smidge Really widen the spacing on this Space these letters a way out like way out Too close Let's go 500. That's what I'm talking about. Let's look and do it. Let's center everything I think that looks good. Let's go ahead and hide the border All right, it looks good. We'll create outlines. I Remember we gave this a stroke. So let's go over here object path Outline stroke and then we're gonna unite it all Now to make sure that I have it all lined up on the board, I'm gonna draw a rectangle around this thing And I'm gonna make this rectangle No fill Give it a stroke of blue Let's make sure everything here is grouped group these Here's a group and I'm gonna select everything Let's make sure these two are grouped Select the outline let's make those outlines so we can see it We're gonna select the outline and all the words we're gonna align them center and align them middle All right, let's export this and get ready to just Let's export this as our score files export as All right. Now. Let's get a cut file together. So first I'm going to delete this outline That way it's not stuck inside the outline inside glow forge now I'm gonna group all of these so that they're easy to cut on just two boards Three we're gonna make all of our cuts first We're gonna cut these boards down these little shorties that came in there is a little extra hidden in the box We're gonna cut these little shorties down to 14 and a half inches They're gonna be the braces for the back of this thing so to keep these three boards held together We're gonna attach this to the back and use this as the brace now. We could use like a one by two But I don't think we need to I think I can get all of this out of one box of wood And that box was $20 1996 or something so yeah, that's what I'm thinking and we'll have a little extra Almost enough to make another sign and I'm gonna take the MDF over throw it in the glow forge and cut out the letters Make it pop I'm gonna make all the cuts for these little guys with my little guy My pocket saw 14 and a half Safety first Safety first Garrett to the glow forge. I always wanted to say that like Batman. I Just imported the SVG that we made that had no frame so that we're able to move the letters around I'm using quarter inch MDF. So I'm going to use the thick draft board settings I'm gonna set these both to cut I'm gonna move these letters around a little bit make sure they fit the best on The board and then I'm gonna go hit print Or and now we score Yes Well, we're gonna score the board now, but to score these boards since the design goes across all three. Yes We're gonna tape them together. We're gonna see if this works together Okay Think you're gonna go a long ways Interesting okay, it was good Looks pretty tight. Yeah, I don't think we're gonna get it any tighter when we put the backers on Last minute change of plans We're gonna mask the front so we don't get any of the charring when we are scoring Again, they're pre-painted. So I don't want to What are primed really but I think this is a Perfect look so I don't really want to have to paint them again Going with that easiest thing It's only about two inches from the top of the masking tape to the board now So just use a little blue tape. You're gonna go over just a little bit. No Touch it just touch it. I'm sliding the boards in from the back Because the designs start at the bottom. I mean some of those paints. Yes. Yeah And if you have your four ounce Country Chic paints, they're a perfect holder for your material I'm just saying they're pretty close to the perfect height. Yeah I think that's it. I think that's all we need And then I'm gonna add some of these little wooden hold-down pins so that I know I'm pushing it through straight They just go right into the honeycomb And come bored room should be sliding us straight on through All right back to the glue for she'll line it up. I Imported the SVG that we made with the frame on it I'm gonna enable that pass through and then I'm gonna pick like a bass wood I want the hardwood bass wood medium Now let's line it up on the board I'm gonna use that frame to kind of make sure it's in the middle All lined up. I'm gonna use the bottom Let's make sure we ignore the frame and we score the words. We'll just use draft All right, let's get ready to print Now I'm just gonna push the material through about eight inches now we paint This stuff's already painted. So that's a jam. I love that. Yeah, and we're gonna roll the letters with some Country Chic paint Old one coat wonder Well sometimes This did not get so we're using this Quarter-inch MDF. Well, I kind of made a mess there make it a mess. I'll clean that up. We did not Mask it. Yes But we're using black paint so it doesn't really matter You're not gonna see it and I was gonna say you can leave it in the frame even Oh, you think so because it's black paint and I don't care if it oozes down just a little bit You're not gonna see it because of the charge size. All right, you leave yours in the frame I'll take mine out and we'll see how they do. All right. I'll be able to do a comparison side-by-side But if you didn't mask and you did need to get some of the char off it will sand off beautifully Yeah, I think we're gonna give one coat. Not too thick Rick. Whoa. Whoa. Who's Rick? Six and now we assemble it. We're just gonna flip it over use a little bit of Gorilla glue a little bit of Gorilla glue Yes, and then a five-eighths inch brad nail. We'll tiny guys. We'll tiny guys All right, I think we have to slide this or it's gonna okay. I can lift this piece There we go Guess this turned out to kind of be a waste if we are masking it Well, we learned something probably only need to mask the front Why is mine so difficult over here? I don't know. I don't know what's happening. All right here Let's start at the same time Okay, no no no wait wait wait Okay Now I feel like I'm wasting all of this. I know can I do with it? I know it's a waste Where do we want these? Yeah, about right there where you might put a hand a hand in okay with my hand Let's give it a little bit of Gorilla glue Okay, put it on no no no no no no You don't want it to accidentally get between these cracks Or it'll ooze right through and make a mess. So put a little here here here and then put it on Now I'm just gonna hit it with a five-eighths inch brad The nail not the guy Oh right to the heart And remember if you didn't have your own brad nailer brad nailer Five-eighths is too big. Yeah Too much pressure I can sunk deep in there. All right. Can you just back that pressure down a lot? Probably should have done a test the oh this thing Which way are you turning it? I turned it left went through a lot. I'm gonna flip it over All right, maybe we don't use I'll hit it here I hit it here. I hit this e Oh Okay, he nailed from front to back So that we could put the letters over it should hide the nails It did kind of go through to the table Again, you don't need to use brad a little clamp little glue and that's really all you need for this because it's so thin It's not going to be very heavy at all. We'll tap them back through. Okay. You want to tap it through now? Yeah, where's the hammer over on our little cart over there Just gonna tap the nails back through So we can't see them So that you won't even see it Now let me ask you So it didn't come back through these that came yeah, I think the pressure I'm brad was a bit too high This wood is super like Yeah, it's real wood, but it's very soft There you go Perfect. Now it does now. It's not through either side. Okay. Great. We're good You want to remove this and we'll start yep. Now we'll just take off the masking tape and Now we're gonna glue all of the letters down using this star bond thick It's like super super glue And I think the big letters will help keep it all together Keep it all together We're just gonna run it down the inside Oh wow Wow, you're like Hercules over there All right, what do you think? I mean, I think it was super easy It was super fast. This is such a quick project. All we had to do was assemble these boards Cut this the longest part was lining it up in the glow forge for the pass through waiting for the glow forge to do its thing Yeah, but all I had to do was sit around and wait for it to yeah Yeah, I think it might have taken a little longer, but I'm pretty sure everything is lined up Perfect like perfect placement I didn't have to worry. I didn't have to get the ruler out and check each letter It took me no time to paint these letters in black Like I said, this was already painted and the great thing about using these kind of distressed Yeah, and it's distressed exactly and the great thing about using these boards is it super light Super light like I wish I could show you how light it is so light like So if I were using a one by fours or one by fives, this would be pretty heavy It'd be like three times as heavy easily like three times as heavy Because it'd be three times as thick Yeah, I like it. I enjoy using it to score it I think we can do other things where we use uh Yeah, just a new tip for you today. Just if you have a glow forge and you hadn't thought about doing this with it This is another this is another thing you can do with it. Yeah, you don't have to cut the wood. You could just score big wood Scoring the big woods All right big thank you to our patrons and we are about out of time so If you're not going to join us for the patron after show, we will see you next week Or we'll do it building and make it again And now I'll do the official balance This is the official Last one was just showing how light it is. You don't trust me by now I still don't trust my balance. Well, I don't want you to break it. We literally just finished it Man, look at that comes back down to earth Peach Keen