Holly Berry Or Is That Holly & Berries

Now that the bulk of the sign structure is done We move on to the embelishments.
I hand drew a pencil outline of the holly vine that is to hang at the bottom of the sign. Then it's off to the welding area. I bend and cut and weld and bend and cut and weld and whala looks "Vine to me".

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Then out comes the plasma cutter and in a few short minutes the holly leaves are formed.

It takes longer to clean up the rough edges and to detail the shape. "but it's all in the details"

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Then a little more welding and bending and now it's really looking like the picture.

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After doing a test fit, I welded some studs(bolts) to have some structure to form the berries around. 

The berries are formed using sculpting epoxy and then they'll get there final coats of paint.

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One of the other embelishments to the sign is the addition of the bell (or Bells).
 
For this caliber of sign I couldn't see putting just on a flat bell, as was shown in the original design. I glued up a block of HDU 4" thick and set the router to work finding the bells within.

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Now dosen't that look better?
I'll add some holly above the bells and a few berries and let the school bells Ring.

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now a few more details and on to paint.