Product Details

• Actors: Jim Bartz
• Directors: Jim Bartz
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: RM Nordstrom Films
• DVD Release Date: April 1, 2006
• Run Time: 44 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FGGNDC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,967 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Signmaker Jim Bartz provides all the advice you need to design and carve custom wooden signs using a versatile freehand method that requires no lettering templates or guides. He takes you through the process, step-by-step, from initial design to the final details. Both relief and engraved carving methods are covered.

Topics include:

1. Examples of signs and decorative carvings
2. Tools you’ll need
3. Design tips
4. Preparing the workpiece
5. Safety consideration
6. Carving techniques
7. Removing the background
8. Detail work

Carving custom signs using an ordinary plunge router can be a rewarding and creative hobby, a profitable business, or both. And it doesn’t require a lot of expensive tools or a large workspace. This fact-filled 44 minute video is ideal for beginning or experienced woodworkers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy, Professional-Looking Signs, May 10, 2006

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Nicholas Jarmuzewski "Nick" (East Lansing, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sign Carving With Your Router (DVD)

This DVD is an awesome buy. Not only does it give clear, easy-to-follow instructions, but the techniques and skills taught are incredibly useful and ensure a really nice, professional-looking finished product. The visual detail is very clear thanks to the DVD quality, making it easy to see exactly how Jim Bartz carves his signs. I haven't seen these techniques anywhere else, and I've yet to carve a sign using a easier or more professional method. I certainly reccomend this to anyone of any skill level that is interested in learning how to carve a great sign that is easy to do and looks awesome. Buy this and you won't be dissapointed.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for Beginners, August 5, 2010

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A. Wessel "alltrain" (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sign Carving With Your Router (DVD)

I ordered this hoping to get a comprehensive video on sign making. If you have never made any signs with a router, this is a good beginning. Portions are very tedious with you watching the author use his router with no voice over. This could have been shortened. It would have been nice to have more information on pattern making, paint selection, and working in various types of wood.

It is a good basic video that will get you started.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, March 13, 2007

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EJAP - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sign Carving With Your Router (DVD)

This style of sign carving is fantastic! The disc is well done, easily understood even by a novice woodworker. My contractor was here and watched it. He was impressed and is anxious to try this method. This is much better than your ordinary sign carving!