Better Woodworking from WOOD magazine presents Sign Carving With Your Router:

Sign-maker 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 considerations
6. Carving techniques
7. Removing the background
8. Detail work
9. Finishing

Carving custom signs using an ordinary plunge router can be a rewarding and creative hobby, a profitable small 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 woodworkers.

This how-to woodworking video runs 44 minutes.