Wooden Mandalorian Poster With Real Metal

Awesome Mandalorian poster with easy to melt pewter.

CNC machine or some other way of carving intricate designs. 1/8 inch down cut bit and 60° V bit.

Pewter ( I found mine on Ebay )

Super Glue

Spray Paint - Red and Yellow

Stain

I used some blue masking tape and rolled it into tape bubbles to stick my piece to the CNC table. Ensure that you are square.

I used and 1/8 inch downcut flat end mill for the majority of the cut and 60° v bit for the letters and the fine detail.

Fill your crucible with pewter and place it in the stove to melt. You can use a steel vegetable can for a crucible if you don't have a cool one like me. Pewter melts around 400° so this can be melted with a propane torch too.

Use a piece of scrap large enough to cover your letters and mark out your spacing. Drill holes through the scrap piece and clamp it to the poster.

Pour your melted pewter into the holes you drilled in the scrap piece until it just comes out the top. After the pewter cools pull off the scrap piece and cut the letters free on the bandsaw. Pewter is soft enough to cut with regular wood cutting tools.

Use some super glue and glue the letters in place. After the letters are glued in place torch the poster to add some dramatic shading effects and sand any high spots on your letters down.

Stain the raised part of the poster. I used special walnut stain but you can use whatever color you like.

Let the stain dry and then mask it off. Now it's time to paint. First spray the red on the bottom then spray on the yellow. Let the paint dry and then give the bottom another spray of red to blend it just right.

Using a keyhole bit add a hanger on the back. Now you can hang and enjoy.