What kind of wood should I use?

Depends on whats on hand or available to you. I’d say Mahogany, Cypress or Cedar would all be good choices.

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Thanks, all of those are available to me. I have a bunch of Azobe, but it’s really too heavy for a sign I think. I may try and go with cypress, would go good with coastal Florida. Thanks Miles!

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Lots of sign makers use MDO Plywood. “Norm” used it to make a mail box. It would need to be painted.

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Thanks ampeater! I would use MDO normally, but am wanting to create a “weathered” effect on the sign and would like to be able to slightly see the different peices of wood that makeup the sign if that makes any sense. lol.

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I would go with edge glued cedar…3” or 4” wide boards. “Rough it up” with a high pressure washer to add a few years of weathered look. Post a pic once it’s done, would love to see it.

Will do. I am kinda leary of roughing it up tooooo much as I’m afraid it will drink paint. What I had though about doing was painting it and scratching and scoring it up pretty good to remove a lot of paint back down to a base coat for a weathered look, and maybe try the pressure washing “rough out” with the trime pieces.

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Make it whatever wood you want and send it to me. I live in the Puget Sound and we can weather anything in mere days. Is green moss okay?

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lol. Green moss sounds great, but only on the edges ok?

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Here’s another idea….send it to me. I’ll let my grand kids abuse it for a day. You won’t recognize it when you get it back.

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