Offline Mechanical Steampunkers' Blog

Step 3 Making the sign

You want people to come and use it, so you need to have a sign.
This sign is made of words printed on my laser printer and then stuck on ordinary corrugated carton cardboard.

Then cut out the words or letters and lay them out on a table as you want them to look in the finished sign.

Now push umbrella spines vertically through all the pieces of corrugated card, so they are all connected on at least 4 or 5 spines. Umbrella spines have a pivoted arm about half way up and that can be used to give some crossways rigidity, but pushing it horizontally through a suitably located card (in this case the word Blog)

The two outer vertical spines can be taped to the top of the framework