This Bed and Breakfast sign has letters forged into an Old English font as per the customer's request.   The backround is fir.   I wish I had used cedar because it is much more rot resistant.

This little sign has hand forged iron letters and a cedar backround.

This is the highway sign I have one half mile from my home.   The sign is constructed out of sheet metal which has been aggressively beaten with a power hammer using dies I designed to create the corrugated folds.   The folds give the metal a bark texture and provide a lot of strength for the entire structure without adding a lot of weight.   The whole tree weighs less than 350 lbs and stands 14.5' tall.  A central spine of 2 inch steel pipe adds additional strength all through the trunk and two supporting branches.   I liked the idea of using cedar for the sign's background because of it's rot resistant qualities.   The letters are forged hot into shape out of 1/4 inch thick flat steel.   They are mounted 1/4 inch off of the wood to make them pop out a bit.   The leaves range in size from 6 to 9 inches long shaped out of 1/16 inch steel.   Three steel anchors 6 feet in the ground hold the sign firmly in place.   It was a lot of fun to build.