Products & Supply Guide - Ray's Wood Signs

Glues and Fillers

Starbond Medium Brown and Clear. Thick = fills gaps in knots and cracks.

Accelerator

Software

1. Software for Poster creation
   • Rapid Resizer
   • Posteriza
   • Inkscape
2. Software for photo manipulation
   • Microsoft Paint
   • Corel Draw
   • etc.

Consumables

Fasteners, Paste wax, Glues, Tape, silicone spray, Spray Gunk, sandpaper, Stain and finishes, sanding sealer, putty and wood filler

Grid paper, stencils, pens, paint pens, markers, acrylic paints, freezer paper, brushes

Wood Products

Perfect Plank, rounds, squares, cupboard drawer fronts, decking 2x6, 2x8

Exotic Wood

Woodworkers Source

Lizzy's shop: The House Of Timber

Freeman Furnishings

Sources

Most items of importance can be found on the

Kingspor sanding discs, at Empire Abrasives

Shaping disks: Kutzall KutzallSphere, bull nose and ball nose rasps

Also the Extreme shaping discs, Med, coarse, extra coarse

U lineShipping, packing, plastic bags

Inovo Stencils 8717 102nd St Apt d5, Richmond Hill, NY 11418-2027

Tool Supplies

Amana BitsCarning Liner

Katz - Moses Woodworking, Tools & Tips

Whiteside BitsSC50 Carving Liner

0 flute = plastics, 2 flute = patterns. Machine sharpen only

Spiral Upcut Carbide ru2076A 1/4 shank .25 Dia .75 L, 2.5 Tall

Letters

Any font

Free shipping in the U.S.

Inks, Paints and Resins

1. Ink Color Chart
2. Marsh Inks

Zoro tools for cases

Store cans upside down. Spray inks blend well with main colors red, yellow, green, blue black, white

3. Trodat Ideal water based
4. Tombow Paint Pens (Use sealer - can fade after a month or so)
5. Krylon sprays: Crystal Clear, Flat Black Primer replaces ink, with blue nozzle (fine spray)
6. Total Boat Resin and hardener and colors
7. Artresin, hardener 1:1 and sample pigment colors
8. Online resin calculator
9. Eye Candy resin colored pigment powder colors
10. Maker Poxy 1:1 by Total Boat

Fasteners

1. # 6 x 5/8 flat head screws
2. Picture / mirror hangers assorted sizes
3. 1/4 x 2 1/2 Screw Eyes
4. 1" S-hooks 100 Pack
5. Picture hanger wire (small spool)

Supplies

1. 50, 80, 120, 240 sanding discs and belts
2. Sanding sealer
3. Clear gloss urethane, exterior
4. Spray Gunk Original Engine De-greaser

For cleaning ink / paint buildup on patterns and letters

5. Scotch 1" x 11' External (red) double-sided tape

Plastics

1. HDPE
   • Comes in PVC, HDPE, HDU (urethane) 1/2 - 3" thick
   • Impervious to weather
   • Lightweight
   • Perfect for forever templates & patterns
   • Gauges; 10 -light, 15 - med, 20 - dense
   • Extremely easy routing - no resistance
   • Easy sanding edges, scratches easily
2. Sign Foam
   • Completely waterproof
   • Lightweight
   • Withstands extreme heat or cold
   • Guaranteed not to warp or bow
   • Does not crack, rot or decompose
   • Easier to machine and work with than wood
   • Fine cell structure ensures excellent edge definition
   • Accepts any paint finish; low paint absorption

Material alternatives

Plastics, drift wood, tree and lumber off cuts

Rope borders, beads, shells, drift wood

beach / broken glass