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In this project episode, we made 100 custom yard signs to surprise my friend Jason! Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/2SaaYmX

Watch the Birdhouse Episode (   • Turn a House into a Bird House  )
Watch the MASSIVE Roof Sign Episode (   • Delight a Friend (Maybe?) with a Roof Sign  )

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I’ve had some ideas for things to make for my friend Jason for a while now and found out that he had an upcoming business trip out of town which made it a perfect time to put the plan into action and surprise him. He’s loves birds so I’m working on a birdhouse that looks like his house and since he has an amazing childhood photo I wanted to turn it into a massive sign that would be put on his roof. To round it all out, making a whole bunch of smaller signs and putting them in his yard seemed like a great idea. By the way, he loves practical jokes so all of these will be enjoyable for him. Probably.

Since the roof sign was going to be about 5 feet wide and 9 feet tall I didn’t want to go too big with the yard signs...but not so small that you couldn’t see the pictures from a distance. I went with a tabloid size sheet of paper. At that size, about 100 signs would get me a sea of Jasons. For variety, a mirror version of both images was created.

Since there’s a decent amount of white around the images and that could stop someone from seeing more of the actual pictures since they’ll be surrounded by each other (mockup), I wanted to get as minimal a border as possible (mockup). But, cutting that many one by one would take a long time, so I wanted to see if I could do it a different way. All the copies of one of the pictures were bound up as tight as possible in between two sheets of cardboard, with one copy on top for reference and a loose sketch of the border. We’ve got a nice bandsaw at work so at lunchtime I was able to see if cutting them all at the same time could happen. Anytime I cut some of the packed sheets I added new tape so that the paper would stay together as tight as possible to reduce blowout or shredding.

Since the signs were just paper and I didn’t know what the weather was going to be like, I took them to a local printer to see how much laminating them all would cost. Turns out, laminating 100 signs was going to be really expensive, but because they liked the idea they gave me a really good price. Which was great because the backup plan I didn’t want to do was to cover each sign with transparent shipping tape on both sides. Another great part about all of this was since their print and lamination area was completely viewable to the customers in the store and anyone walking by the store, thousands of people got to see this lamination process happen.

While the signs were being laminated, I went to the hardware store to see what sign post options were available. All of them were decently priced, but by the time you multiplied the cost by 100 signs it was a bit much.

I cut up some leftover sheets of plywood on the table saw to match the height and width of the stakes from the store. After cutting out enough, I took them to the miter saw, changed the angle to 45 degrees, did a test to see if the stake point was good enough and then set a stop block so I could do multiple stakes at once.

The lamination went great so it was time to cut them out. Unfortunately, it wasn’t going to work to cut them out on the bandsaw. Since I was busy building Jason’s bird house, Henry took to the task of preparing Jason after Jason after Jason.

On the morning of the big day when we were going to install everything, the weather report did not look good. It was supposed to rain and I was already a little concerned since the angle of the roof was pretty steep. Because of that weather alert, it made me rethink the plans for all the projects.

What if, instead of completely covering their yard with signs, we put them by the curb in their neighbor’s yards? It would be like a really long welcome home line across 20 or so houses! And, since each image had a mirror version, they could all be looking towards Jason and his family as they drove past!

To do that, though, we needed to give all of the neighbors a heads up before we put signs on their property. Since it was going to be in the middle of the day, I wrote a note telling them what we were doing and thanking them for making it possible. A bunch of copies were made so it could be taped on front doors if the neighbors weren’t home.

Because of the small window of time we had to work with, while I installed the birdhouse and roof sign, my friend Mae helped install the yard signs.

The nice thing is that all the neighbors she talked with were completely on board! We had to make some adjustments because the staples weren’t long enough to stay stuck to the posts when they were hammered in. Our friend Jim joined in to help and between him hammering and Mae restapling the signs, it went great!