Pub Sign

[Onoff]

Let my daughter at it with the gold paint. Routed the handle hole one end that I'd forgotten to do. Gave it a second coat. It looks a bit darker as the paint kettle had old dried black bitumen paint in from when I painted the big pub sign frame. The creosote softened and thinned the bitumen.

I've a roll of 9x1mm copper bus bar to bling it up, do you think I can find it?

 

[Onoff]

Thinking this copper strip to bling it up somehow:

It'll go green with verdigris pretty quick. Should help it look aged. I've got no copper pins to fit it on though. Copper tacks maybe, stainless panel pins?

 

[Onoff]

Where do I get solid brass / copper tacks or panel pins...tomorrow and local?

 

[ajlelectronics]

Where do I get solid brass / copper tacks or panel pins...tomorrow and local?

Could you use an epoxy adhesive? It would probably look nicer than panel pins.

 

[Onoff]

Could you use an epoxy adhesive? It would probably look nicer than panel pins.

No.

 

[Onoff]

Just playing:

 

[Onoff]

Probably the twisted copper rope idea isn't the best in case some p***head trips and head butts it!

 

[Misterg]

Where do I get solid brass / copper tacks or panel pins...tomorrow and local?

Copper roofing nails? From your local builder's merchant.

 

[Onoff]

An absolute pig threading the rope inside the copper elbows! I even used silicone oil and grease. Then "crimped":

Lined with some wide DPC stapled on. Blinged up with the 9x1 copper strip left flat. Fixed with solid brass panel pins from Hobbycraft:

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^^ Hope it's all appreciated!

 

[Onoff]

^^ Hope it's all appreciated!

It is. There used to be an old boy went up there and helped out doing a few odd jobs. Seems like I've taken over!

Quite nice that the kids and I all had input on it.

New section of fence next.

 

[Onoff]

Hopefully installing the planter today. Well delivering it, transferring the compost out of the old one and tidying up then supping some real ale!

 

[Onoff]

To say it was wet was an understatement but it's in!

Before:

https://flic.kr/p/2pCCHf3

After:

https://flic.kr/p/2pCwFmo

https://flic.kr/p/2pCDk6s

 

[Farside]

You'll be doing those windows next?

 

[Onoff]

You'll be doing those windows next?

I know, they're crying out for some attention. I wonder if they're too far gone?

Part of the ceiling above the dartboard is my next job I think.

 

[bourbon]

Not trying to cause an argument. But as the pub is a business. Are you getting paid for all of this work?

 

[Onoff]

Not trying to cause an argument. But as the pub is a business. Are you getting paid for all of this work?

Paid in pints & crisps.

I don't ever really have to buy materials per se. The scaffold boards were literally scrap, the copper band a freebie etc. Screws I got on clearance when they were "giving them away" at Screwfix. Some time, glue and leccy.

The pub needs all the help it can get & I need the pub!

 

[bourbon]

Fair dues. And it is most important to keep your local pub going!!!

 

[DAPPH]

@DAPPH ? One for you maybe. I was thinking to drill some holes in the base then run round them with a router to radius or chanfer them. Then whack a bead of mastic around each and line with the dpm. When stuck puncture where the the holes are. Not sure on how many holes / what diameter. Or even whether to V the base in two pieces slightly like a keel.

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3D print trumpets to sit in the holes adding a further bead of silicone . Trumpets can have a mesh printed into the bell end , 3/4 inch max dia of the tube as there will rarely ever bee a lot of excess water in the planters that requires heavy drainage. The moisture route out also takes in fresh oxygen this in turn feeds bacteria which eats dead plant lmattrer and produces nutrients for the flowers ( Humus ) .
Feeding the planters with neat rabbit poop and raking it in the top 35 mm then watering then planters s a good way of adding a fantastic manure that produces very vibrant coloured flowers .

 

[Onoff]

3D print trumpets to sit in the holes adding a further bead of silicone . Trumpets can have a mesh printed into the bell end , 3/4 inch max dia of the tube as there will rarely ever bee a lot of excess water in the planters that requires heavy drainage. The moisture route out also takes in fresh oxygen this in turn feeds bacteria which eats dead plant lmattrer and produces nutrients for the flowers ( Humus ) .
Feeding the planters with neat rabbit poop and raking it in the top 35 mm then watering then planters s a good way of adding a fantastic manure that produces very vibrant coloured flowers .

Too late , x8 3/4" holes in the bottom. Run round with a 1/2" radius bit. Covered in compost now.