Make box signs for horses yourself

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The box signs for the beloved four-legged friends should be as different as the characters of the individual horses. Since you probably know your horses best, you should also make the box signs yourself.

Create a pit sign.
Create a pit sign.

What you need:

  • wood
  • chromed sheet steel
  • gold-plated sheet steel
  • Jigsaw

Create your own box signs

They make box signs from a wide variety of materials.

  1. Before you can make your pit signs, you should know what exactly should be written on the pit signs. It should be so that the visitors can easily read the most important data of the horse in passing.
  2. The name of the horse in question should be written in large letters on the box sign and clearly visible on all sides. The year of birth and the pedigree of the horse are also very important. The names of the parents and the name of the stud from which the ancestors come.
  3. If necessary, you can also note the races won or important placements on the pit signs. In this way, a potential visitor can immediately get an idea of ​​the horse he is currently facing.
  4. Make different drawings of the individual pit signs. So you can create the right look before actually creating the box sign. You should try different spellings, as well as different colors, before deciding on a box sign.
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Make the signs for your horse stalls

The classic among the pit signs is undoubtedly a wooden sign on which all the data is burned in.

  1. For this type of box sign, you should cut a 1 cm thick sheet of beech wood and use a glowing piece of wood to burn the horse's data into the sign.
  2. Of course, you can also buy commercially available letters for branding. You should only draw the dates with a thin pencil on the wooden sign for both procedures.
  3. Box signs made of chrome-plated or gold-plated sheet metal are a number more exclusive. These sheets are cut from 3 mm thick material, which has the dimensions of 30 cm x 20 cm. The lettering is done by engraving or simply by gluing on prefabricated foils.
  4. You can also make your box signs as figures. Take the drawing of a horse's head or a jumping horse and transfer the drawing onto a 30 cm x 20 cm piece of beech wood that is 1 cm thick.
  5. Draw an area for the horse's data on the wood and cut everything out with a fine jigsaw. You can also use other images, it is only important that the character of the horse can be recognized on the box sign.

You may also talk to your partner before you decide on the construction of your pit sign.

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