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Redesigned Interlocking Sign Making Templates are Loaded with New Features to Produce Professional Signs with Ease!
Produce countless enduring, classic signs with our instantly recognizable "State Park" Font Sign Making System. Our State Park letter templates feature, for the first time ever, adjustable kerning for the most natural-looking layout of your text. Kits are available in two different heights and include 99 template pieces (letters, numbers, symbols, and kerning spacers). Included brass guide bushing is a vast improvement over the plastic bushing that was included with previous Rockler Sign Making Templates. Recommended for use with plunge router.
New Features for the State Park Sign Making Kits:
- Continuous, Unbroken Letters Make this Font Unique! The templates eliminate the need to "split" the font for letters such as A, B, and D, as a way of securing the "eye" in the middle. With our clever 2-stage system, you get neat, whole letters, with no seams.
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- Kerning Spacers Ensure Consistent Letter Spacing Every Time! Kerning allows letters with top or bottom heavy shapes to overlap each others space, eliminating awkwardly large spaces. The illustration below demonstrates the word "PARK" with and without kerning applied. Note the space between the "P" and "A".
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Click on the button above to view our Sign Making Wizard. Simply enter your sign word or phrase and the wizard will create a custom routing plan including a visual guide to the sequence of templates needed and the number of passes required to rout the letters.
Technical Details:
- The State Park Sign Making System includes 99 template pieces and a brass guide bushing.
- Included letters are for capitals only.
- Template pieces are 3/32" thick.
- Choose from two letter heights: 2-1/4" and 3-3/8" (dimensions are for actual routed letters).
- Included letters: A, A, B, C, D, E, E, F, G, H, I, I, J, K, L, L, M, M, N, N, O, O, P, P, Q, R, R, S, S, T, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.
- Included numbers: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 0, 0.
- Included symbols: !, @, #, $, ', ?, ., /, &.
- Includes detailed instructions for two template system and optional kerning.
- 2-1/4" Kit (#48356) requires 3/8" Signmaker's Carbide Router Bit (36676, sold separately) and a router with a perforated base.
- 3-3/8" Kit (#43820) requires 5/8" Signmaker's Carbide Router Bit (32443, sold separately) and a router with a perforated base.
- The uniquely designed sign making router bits (sold separately) are specially for signmaking applications. They have a flatter bottom to prevent peaks in the routed letters.
- Recommended for use with plunge router.
What's in the Box?
(99) Individual template pieces: letters, numbers, symbols, and kerning spacers.
(1) Specially-designed brass guide bushing (3/8" guide bushing for 2-1/4" Kit; 5/8" guide bushing for 3-3/8" Kit)
(1) Set of detailed instructions
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Customer Reviews and Photos for:
Rockler Interlock Signmaker's Templates - State Park Font Kits
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Average Rating:
4.0
(6 customer reviews)
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1) Submitted by
Keith from MO
on 5/24/2013
Customer Rating: 
Ease of use is great. I'm using a Bosch Colt with plunge attachment. Tried with full size router but control was difficult because of size and weight. Recommend one of the new mini trim routers with a plunge base. Using two inch blue painters tape and have had good luck. Just make sure it is perfectly flat with no wrinkles. A little silicon lubricant rubbed on the router base also helps. Dust build up is kind of a problem, just keep a vac handy and clean out the letters frequently. I Also recommend putting a blank spacer template at each end to support the router base on the first and last letter. Overall a great product.
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2) Submitted by
Rick Farris, from Thousand Oaks, CA
on 3/24/2013
Customer Rating:
Extremely easy and intuitive to use, even for someone like me with little router experience. The letters are well-designed and the sequential letter parts for letters like A, P, R, and D are an excellent solution to having gaps in your letters. I've been using double-stick tape and a DeWalt DWP611 with a plunge base. Seems like the perfect combo. I am currently making signs for a school's native plant garden. Highly recommended!
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3) Submitted by
Tony Cook, from Bloomington, MN
on 1/19/2013
Customer Rating:
I purchased this kit to make a sign approx. 3 1/2 ft long. I use Cedar Wood with Black letters. The kit was easy to use and produced a very uniform, attractive sign. It was nice that a Brass guide bushing was included. I used a plunge router which contributed to the ease of use. The "Sign Wizard" on Rockler"s web site is simple to use and a valuable free tool to. I would like to have both Upper and Lower case letters to use in the future if available. I also used double-backed Carpet tape applied to the backside of the templates and this worked quite well for me. Have fun !!
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4) Submitted by
Charlie Klein, from Street, MD
on 3/4/2013
Customer Rating:
I just love it, used painters tape with no problem, I tried carpet tape but that left a sticky mess. Would like to see a small set of letters and a set of inch and a half of fancy letters. I have made 3 signs so far and it works very well.
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5) Submitted by
Steve Krzywicki, from San Diego, CA
on 4/3/2013
Customer Rating: 
The sign kit works but not as easy as reviews and video would have you believe. Letters and blue painters tape MOVE while you carve the sign. I have a new Porter-Cable model 892 plunge router. Only double stick tape I found was carpet tape. It's thick and expensive and points of letters W K N M moved. I used Krylon easy-tack, a repositionable spray adhesive, and solved to movement problem. Took 30 minutes to clean glue off letters! You must use 8 inch tall lumber to get the 6.5 inch interlocking letters to work. Carved letters are only 3-3/8 inches tall,leaving allot of unused wood. You can make a nice sign ,but system is not 4 star or easy to use as reviewed.
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6) Submitted by
Wayne Brissette, from Austin, TX
on 1/25/2013
Customer Rating: 
I only gave this product 3 stars, mostly because of a few issues I had with the set. With a majority of letters needing two passes, I can understand the lack of certain multiple letters, but I was surprised at the number of single letters in the kit. I ended up laying out the second letter on my sign so I could match the spacing properly. While I can understand using plastic for the letters, I also chewed a couple due to a slight height difference in the cherry wane I was using. The bushing simply rode out of the slot. That was bound to happen with any system when the wood isn't perfectly flat, but since the letters are plastic and you don't always get more than one letter, my first sign with this kit may be the last unless I order another kit. But that said, I think the system overall works pretty good. Oh, and don't use blue painters tape like they show on the box. If you do, you're likely to move the letters on your wood if the router plate catches the tape like mine did.
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