Post #83676 by pariartspaul on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 4:57 PM

Yes, our workshop always smells totally like redwood. It's funny some times of the year you can smell the wood more than other times. We've always got a small stack of redwood sitting there for our signs. I usually get it in 8 foot lengths and then slice it up as soon as we get it home so it is ready for the next batch of signs. I spend a lot of time in there - so I'm used to it now.

When we're busy I spend whole days at the scroll saw cutting out lettering and little tiki heads and stuff. It's fun, you just kind of zone out and the time just flies. I love our workshop!

The only bad things is after we paint the signs we have to seal them with a spray sealer, we do it outside, but then we bring the signs in to dry and it smells awfull!! But the smell is gone by the next morning.

Oh if anyone's interested, I use an RBI company scroll saw and you can see one on the web at: http://www.rbiwoodtools.com/s/static/scroll_saw_one/scroll_saw_one.htm
No I have no connection with them at all! I ran across one of thier saws being demonstrated in 2001 at the L.A. County Fair and thought it was a really cool thing, well I ordered one just for fun - a month later it was 9/11 and a month after that I got laid off from my job at Disney after 21 years! Well, we kind of got into the sign business by accident, you know one thing evolved into another...

Anyway I've been using that saw since then for our business and I just love it. It can cut really teeny little detailed things and also big sign outlines. And it's very sturdy. Boy I should be in a commercial for them, I think it's that good.

Heavens to mergatroid, sorry about all the rambling....