Premium Craftsmanship made within the mountains of Utah by craftsmen featured on HGTV. My father and I’ve been making picket wall decor as our father-son pastime. Many hours of bonding and lots of extra hours of yelling at one another. Nevertheless, I (the son) have it on good authority that I’m all the time appropriate. If my dad knew tips on how to use Etsy and browse this itemizing, I am SURE he’d agree. How we evaluate vs. the remainder (and what makes our woodgrain so significantly better): PREMIUM STAIN: The flag is hand-stained with a customized MinWax stain specifically blended for our flags, not painted. The stain works completely along with the raised grain. Pay attention to painted flags that cowl the wooden options of your flag – the aim of shopping for a wooden flag is to accent these picket options. Paint covers them. THE UNION: The union on all of our flags is a part of the entire flag. We do *not* make the stripes separate and glue the union on later . By making all of it one, cohesive piece, it makes for a a lot sturdier flag. THE STARS: Our stars are ALL 3D carved. Every one is routed for excellent placement and appears superb from any angle. (There are different crafters that paint their stars utilizing a stencil and even glue/nail on the celebs that they purchased from a craft retailer. Each time we see that, just a little piece of our woodworking soul dies. You deserve higher craftsmanship, ). WOODGRAIN/STRIPES: After we make these flags, we all the time select a woodgrain that has a ton of character after which we increase the grain to carry out all of its particular options. We DO NOT torch the flag after it’s put collectively (floor burn), like others – that leaves blotchy burn marks with no texture. As an alternative, we increase the grain previous to assembling the flag by way of a proprietary, handcrafted 15-step course of that has taken us years to excellent (and customized machines we needed to construct that left us with bank card debt as much as our eyeballs). It actually seems to be superb and you may see/really feel the standard. It is also an enormous ache, and I want my father would pitch in on that half typically and let me relaxation on occasion – however I suppose that may be elder abuse. WOODGRAIN PATTERN: There are two varieties of flags that we provide with this itemizing. A straight grain flag and a personality grain flag (technically quartersawn and plainsawn however I am not right here to bore you with woodworking terminology). Please choose the right one accordingly. APPROX SIZES: XL (47″ x 25″) L (36″ x 19.5″) M (30″ x 16.5″) S (24″ x 12″) THE BACKING: The wooden staves are hooked up with backing cleats. We do NOT use plywood because the backing on our flags. Plywood will take in moisture and warp over time and damage your flag, it additionally provides an pointless quantity of bulk/weight. Our picket cleats are the best choice. In concept, your wall ought to collapse earlier than our flag does. Hopefully your wall doesn’t collapse anyway as a result of that may be absurd. HANGING: The hanging {hardware} comes hooked up. We use a heavy pound take a look at wire between the 2 middle cleats that may help you simply middle the piece on a fastener. FINISHES: We provide an indoor satin or gloss end and an out of doors polymer coating for these seeking to show this outside. The out of doors coating is hardly noticable whereas the indoor coatings are topical. All finishes will darken the complexion barely; Outside particularly (as we use an oil base solvent for out of doors coatings – which can carry out the sapwood complexities within the carved stars – usually at totally different hues). PLEASE NOTE: All wooden is hygroscopic in that it absorbs and emits moisture. These are softwood flags so they aren’t *meant* for the outside however with the best care they will final a great whereas earlier than Mom Nature wins the final word battle. We’d advise putting them in a coated space like a porch. ENGRAVING: We’re as soon as once more providing our skilled router carved engraving providers. WE DO NOT LASER ENGRAVE the wooden. Laser engraving is shallow and the warmth of the laser will burn the wooden. Router carving is the cleanest, deepest, and one of the best ways to have an ideal wanting customized flag. We engrave on the underside proper, or middle 2nd or third to final purple stripe. Please select just one. The engraving charge is $40 and we are going to ship you a separate bill in case you point out that you prefer to an engraving. ***Please be aware that every flag can have its personal character; knots, grain patterns, and so on. and measurements could fluctuate inside ½” To recap: • 3D Carved Stars (No stencils/craft retailer stars used) • Stained, not painted • 15-step proprietary methodology to burn and lift grain – not merely floor burn it, erratically, with a torch. • No separate union. Our flag stripes run proper into the union as one piece. • Backed with cleats – not cumbersome, plywood • Greater high quality of lumber (we’re the one stewards of this lower of lumber in from this choose forest in the US – we do NOT use pine). • Router carved and NOT laser engraved. To recap the particular add-ons: • Indoor satin • Indoor gloss • Outside Moreover, • We ship all of our flags in 100% recyclable materials • Our store is veteran-owned and each buy helps the White Coronary heart Basis who helps veteran psychological well being • We love you
