Just finished carving a sign for my in-laws for the camper. I carved it out of cedar that I got from a local lumber mill. It was scrap ends they had set aside for the chipper. I pulled it out and they gave it to me. The detail in the carving is actually very good for such a sof wood. After carving on normal setting, I sanded it with a 320g mop sander, painted the letters and finished it with an exterior varathane gloss finish. So what do ya'll think.