fisho mcspaz wrote:I need to know where I would go to have a sign made on a piece of wood. Alternatively, how does one burn letters into a piece of wood? I haven't got a blowtorch. I just want to make a sign that says 'Phil Collins Hill' so I can put it up in my back yard.
I once did some minor work of that type in my early teens just as an experiment, but then lost interest - as I do tend to after the initial dabbling...
I substituted Potassium Permanganate for saltpetre (Nitrate) in the traditional gunpowder mix and found that when ignited it turned into a fiery liquid that could be spread in shapes before ignition and then sunk into the wood as it burned - it is probably a risky approach to the task though.
(A cheap Router may be safer to make the shape you can then scorch with a hot iron.)