Custom Wood Signs

Brought in a piece of wood for a custom sign which entailed digitally sandblasting a logo into the wood and drill holes for nails. Sounds very simple, right? It should be. It was anything but easy. It was so difficult to communicate because every time I spoke with Don, it was as if the previous convo/​email thread didn’t happen. I just wanted the logo centered on the wood. He could make the logo bigger or smaller and cut the wood where he needed. Whatever, I was open. I just wanted the logo centered on the wood then 2 – 4 holes drilled. That’s it. He really could not understand that concept. Whatever, ok fine. We agreed upon a digital mock-​up to see what «centered» looked like. That was really my only important detail. Went to pick it up and the logo had 8″ of bare wood on the left side and literally 1″ on the right (plus the top and bottom were not centered, which is fine, i didn’t specify that per say). Whoa, now that is not centered at all. Well It’s too late now, I said, so it’s fine. Where are the holes? No holes (and no room for holes beside the logo). I left it again for them to finish. I emailed Don again (since I know him pretty well by now) with a description for the type of hole to do. I asked if he would also do me a solid and paint the logo interior the (teal) blue color of our logo, and I sent him the logo again to see the color and asked that he try to color match as much as possible. Never got a reply back about that. He emailed me a couple days later and said the sign was ready. I already paid for the sign, so I sent a courier. When I received it, there were indeed holes this time; narrow standard drill holes; NOT inset. And the logo was indeed painted; color Black. There were some other weird things and communication mishaps. Just so time consuming holding someones hand doing something so simple, then to get a product that you could have worked on for no time at all and gotten the same thing. Way more work that I was intending this cute little project to be. Paid $ 125 for a piece of junk. Oh well. Never heard back.

Very pleased with my new custom wood sign! Exceeded my expectations from start to finish.