DIY Tutorial: Crafting a Chic Hanging Booth Sign with Copper Pipe

If there is a hundred vendors at a craft show, how do you make your booth stand out? What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do it, build it, or make it? So do we. So be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and tick that bell to be notified of our new videos each week. This week we're going to be doing some peacocking at the craft show, shaking our tail feathers, getting noticed. This was actually a request from one of our top tier patrons in our super secret top tier patron Facebook group. She posted out there that she had seen this at a craft show and could we make a version of this. It's like one of those hanging like retro style storefront signs. Yeah. And we're in the thick of craft show season. We've got no design time, a lot of ideas, but no time. So we're going to try to make the easiest one that we've seen out there. Yeah, we've got some ideas already in the works for some others that are maybe a little more artistic versions of this hanging storefront sign. But those will wait till the spring. We'll do that video right before craft show season starts in the spring. But for now, this is something you can do in an hour to add some bling, some peacock, some peacock, peacock into your craft booth. I'm hoping it doesn't even take an hour. I have things to do. Step one. We're going to gather all of our supplies. For this version, we're going to use some half inch copper pipe. I have two sections, a 10 foot section and a five foot section. We think this will be strong enough, rigid enough that when we hang our sign, it won't flex too much. And it'll be durable enough that we can travel with it and it won't get messed up as we take it to show after show. And as it ages, it will only look more beautiful with that popping patina. We're going to use these corner brackets that are just pressing because I'm not a plumber and she's not a coppersmith. I'm not a coppersmith. These will just slide in and should be permanent. We're going to cut our pipe with this pipe cutter. We just run it around the thing until it pops off apparently. And then we're going to use these velcro straps. This is how we're going to hang our sign. We're actually going to attach it at the top and bottom of the pole. We have a little copper end cap. We're going to put this on the end so that this won't gather any dust or debris or rocks, gravel for outdoor shows. And then finally, we have this shark bite tee thing. We're going to use this to make this thing a little versatile so we can use it indoors or outdoors. I think that is it. Step two. We're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to start cutting down our pipe and I'm not going to try to saw a straight line. So we're going to use this little pipe cutter. We're just going to put it on and run it around until the pipe breaks apart, I think. That's the plan. That's the plan. We're going to start by cutting a 62 inch section out of this. This will be our long pole for when we're outdoors. And then we'll cut a 25 and then two 14s and then a 25 and a 12 out of the shorter one. Which will give me 23 inches of slack for mistakes. All right, let's see what you got. Let's do it. Oh, do we have a sharpie? That's what I was going to say. Do you need a sharpie? That's so funny. Yeah. I don't, but I have this nice teal pen. This is close. It might get confusing with the patina. What did you say? 62? 62. Mark me. There you go. Marked. You are marked. All right, let's check it. All right, those are our two 25s. Those are going to be the top and the bottom. This is going to be the sides. Wow, they seem short. We got that measured correctly. Oh yeah, that looks good. That looks good. That's big. Okay. All right. Step three. Time to bring it all together with some pressing. We're going to press it into these fittings right here, and I'm sure that's pretty easy too. Oh, that was super easy. This might be one of the easiest assemblies of all time. Does it come back out? It comes back out. Do you have to press it with something? I don't know. I was afraid. I thought they were permanent. I bet you have to crimp them, which is a crimping tool. That's even better. Then I can really take it apart and disassemble it. Will it stay together? Yeah, that's a good question. Look, it's wobbly. I don't think she's got it. Do I have to hammer them in? Do I have to crimp it? I'll be right back. So we googled it, and it looks like we need a crimping tool to crimp these things. I thought they'd just be like push and play, but I'm going to try some vice grips, and if those don't work, some big pliers. I don't know what these are called. Channel locks. Let's see if the vice grips work. I'm going to crimp it on this. So there is a whole tool that we can purchase, but I'm hoping not to have to purchase that tool for what we're doing, right? Yeah, for what we're doing. I don't know. I thought those were going to be cheap. Well, I keep it cheap. Kind of. Oh, thank you. All four sides. What did you get? How did you get your finger? Oh, it's what's underneath the things. It worked though. All right. All right. Well, I mean, this crimp is all we need for what we're doing. It doesn't have to hold water. It doesn't have to hold water exactly. All right. Let's try it without busting my hands. This is how we do things around here, folks. We sometimes wing it. Well, I mean, if you can't fix it with a hammer, vice grips, or duct tape, it's beyond, beyond repair. It's just beyond repair. Okay. Plan B. What if I just smack it with a hammer? Just smack it with a hammer. No. You don't think so? I think we should try it. Okay. Be right back. Make sure they're pushed in. Let's push together. Yeah, because it definitely wasn't playing with it while you were gone. I mean, if it's windy, we're in trouble. Back for plan D. We're going to try some JB Weld. We're going to take it apart, mix up the JB Weld, stick it up in the hole, and then try to fit it back in. But now some of them are kind of stuck. All right. We got this. We got this. Now we know what not to do. Now you know what not to do. Right. Don't try to crimp it unless you have a tool. These are crimp kitties. Don't try to hammer it if you don't have a crimper. Put this sucker together. Wait. I think we should... Okay. What? Have a paper towel ready. Do you need some gloves? Do you think you should put some gloves on? I wasn't planning on touching it. Well, that I guessed. You're supposed to sand the ends. I should have JB Weld on my fingers. I don't think that's a good... I don't think that's good. I wasn't planning on touching it. Hey. Hold that 2x4 down now. Give it a whack. I think that's whacked. Plan D, the JB Weld. That worked. That did the trick. Yes. It's nice and sturdy now. It's not bendy. It's great. This is great. Now it's good to take, what did I say? 24 to 48 to fully cure? No. 4 to 6. Oh, right, right, right. 4 to 6. 4 to 6 hours. Fully cured. Okay. So be cured by tomorrow morning. Now we have this super long tail that we're going to trim down to 15 inches. This should just give us enough to zip tie to the tent. It's twofold. One, I don't want to carry a very long pole with me every time we go somewhere. I don't want to have to, if we're having to walk across a park, carry this giant flag with me. I don't want to. I don't want to be marching down the street with it, bring it to my show, and then suddenly have a pack of Cub Scouts following me. It's the last thing I need. So the plan is this piece, the short pole and the sign post will go in a wagon with the signs and be great. I think we should be, we'll be able to carry that no problem. And we'll be able to use this shark bite, which he's cutting this off. Oh, good. We can show that right now. Just in time. Oh, it's not fully cured yet. Twist it a little bit. Now we're going to use the shark bite here because this is removable, so I'll be able to take it on and off. But you said I need a tool that I didn't get. Yeah, did you happen to get the tool? No, I didn't know I needed the tool. Okay, so it's not currently removable. And it's a T because we had, we had debates on how we were going to do this. Yeah, we thought we might put the T here, but then I wasn't sure if the weaning. All right, what am I doing? I think you just really push it on there. All right, that's it. Now, do you want to put this bottom on now and show them? Well, you get the gist. So the idea is that we're going to put this pole on here and now with the, yeah, with that on there, that should be the bottom of the canvas of the tent, right? This is the end of the legs at the canvas. That's right. This is going to stick out into the aisle and the, oh, what are we doing here? I almost got it stuck. You jammed it on there. I'll be able to zip tie the whole pole to the tent poles, the tent legs. So I'll be able to zip tie this or Velcro it, right? I think we're going to use the Velcro straps. We'll be able to Velcro this to the pole. We'll also be able to. Velcro this to the pole so we won't be relying on this piece. Right. All the weight is not going to be there. We're going to Velcro it up here, Velcro it down below, and then we'll be able to use this on the tent as well as an indoor show. We'll be able to Velcro this to the pegboard standers that we have. So yeah, I think now I guess I let you go for your next step. Sorry. I was about to take your thunder. Step four, time to make the sign. We're going to take some quarter inch MDF over to the laser and cut out our logo and our little frame to go with it. Now this sign has to be double-sided because you'll be able to see this from any direction because it'll be sitting out into the aisle. So this will be the first time we've created a double-sided sign. So we cut out the logo on the first half and I tried to leave the board where it was and flip just the piece, but it really didn't fit. But I scored that side anyway. I scored both sides. And we're using our Foxy Hughes paints. This is outdoor acrylic paint. So this is UV resistant, weather resistant, and we'll be able to hang that and it'll be fine hanging on our booth indoors or out. And we use Starbond Thick to hold everything together because we knew it would be outside. We knew we wanted something water resistant and be able to fill in all the cracks and hold that sucker for a couple of years or until I break it. Step five, we're going to attach the sign. We got our double-sided sign. Looks the same on both sides. Look at that. I think it looks cool. We haven't done one like this before. Catch it coming and going. It doesn't seem too heavy. I think we're okay. All right. We're going to use some Velcro straps to now secure the sign in between the top and bottom piece. All right. I have cut them, but these are too long. So we'll just, let's just see. We'll do it on the fly. Yeah. What do we need? I don't know what we need. I guess we have to just eyeball center. Okay. All right. All right now. All right. You ready to pick it up? I am. All right. Here. What do you think? I like it. I can see it in the monitor over there. I don't know if it was up high. Think it would catch your eye? Yeah. I think it would. I don't have to hold it up that high. I do. I got to see it. I got to visualize. I think it's all right. I'm happy with that. Big thanks to all of our patrons. We love you guys. That is the best way to support this channel and big thanks to you for sticking with us through all of our backup plans to try to get these pipes to stick together. We learned some things. We all learned some things. Yep. And don't forget to hit that like button. It really does help us in the algorithm. And if you're not yet subscribed, definitely hit that subscribe button and hit that bell to be notified of the new videos each week. All right. We're about out of time. I got to go get some work done. You got to stop fooling around and we will see you next week where we'll do it, build it, and make it again. And this is a good one. Oh no. Yeah. Oh no. We're going to do it this way. Oh. Oh wow. You really are. No way. Yeah. No way. Yep. Yep. And we're doing it. And we're in. Oh my gosh. I really am surprised you could balance that. You guys want to see the logo? Yeah. There's the logo. All right. Let's let it cure.