Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Arrow for a wedding reception

A young woman in our ward is getting married and her reception is in a recreation area.  She wanted a big arrow with lights to direct people to the reception.  They had a picture of how they wanted it to look.

It was actually quite fun figuring out how to put it together and how to do the lights.  Got the frame put together pretty easily.  Cut some 1/4 inch plywood for the middle part, put sheetrock mud on it for texturing and then drilled holes for the lights to go in.

I read the box wrong and thought there were 40 lights, so I drilled 40 holes.  After I got everything painted and lights installed, I realized it was 40 watt and had only 25 lights.  I thought at first I could do another string of lights and drill 10 more holes.  Decided that would be too many lights, so I redid the middle part of the arrow, did the texturing and let it dry while I was in Illinois.

Last night, drilled 24 holes, painted the middle part of the arrow and installed the lights.  Also put hooks on the arrow for them to hang it.


It turned out being about 39 inches long and about 24 inches wide, at the widest part.  Wedding is Thursday and I delivered it last night.

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