holy water font

**schaf** · 20th February 2006, 09:34 PM

Hi, I would appreciate advise from some of you experts and say thanks in advance.
I have been asked to make a holy water font in the shape of a cross with a small bowl at the base to hold the water. All in one peice of wood.
Is this advisable in one peice or should it be joined at the cross.Joining at the cross section would save a heap of wood as against cutting the cross from one peice of wood.And how would a person join the bowl at the base which would be hollowed out to take a water proof insert.Size is only small,maybe about 450mm high.Timber I have been thinking of is Red Cedar or I think I have a peice of Beefwood around somewhere.
Any advice would be helpfull.
Thanks,Regards
Terry

**doug the slug** · 20th February 2006, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by schaf

I have been asked to make a holy water font in the shape of a cross with a small bowl at the base to hold the water.

well ive neve heard of a holy water FONT, is it like times new roman or sans serif, verdana, arial, book antiqua???

as for the holy water itself, the best way i know of is to boil the hell out of it

**doug the slug** · 20th February 2006, 09:50 PM

OOps, sorry, Schaf and other members, ive just broken one of my own rules and huijacked a thread/ gave a clown response before teh question has been answered.

apology to all, sorry but it was just sitting there begging for that answer and i couldnt resist.

Schaf, i hope someone can give you a sensible response

**Sturdee** · 20th February 2006, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by doug the slug

as for the holy water itself, the best way i know of is to boil the hell out of it

Doug,

When you boil it that much it becomes devils water or steam.

Holy water should be ice cold. :eek: Helps to make the babies cry when it gets put on them.

Peter.

**doug the slug** · 20th February 2006, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by Sturdee

Holy water should be ice cold.

well i would normally say something about hell freezing over here but this serious question hasnt been answered yet so i am not going to hijack the thread

**ozwinner** · 20th February 2006, 10:08 PM

See.
This is what Don is on about.

It really peeves me off. :mad:
Because I was going to do the reply.

But thought better of it...........................until now.

Al :eek:

**schaf** · 22nd February 2006, 08:08 AM

When a person puts forward a sensible question to a mob of Fonts, I suppose I received the only answer their lower case brains could muster.

**Wood Butcher** · 22nd February 2006, 08:37 AM

Hi Schaf, I don't think that it would be a good idea to make it all out of one oeice of timber nor should any client realistically expect you to. I'm not sure what you mean be joing the bowl at the base. Could you post a sketch of what it is to look like so we can get an idea!

**zenwood** · 22nd February 2006, 11:12 AM

You wouldn't make a cross by carving it out of one piece of timber. Much better (stronger, less waste) to join two pieces. You can still make the two pieces by cutting up one piece of wood though. That would make a good colour match. You'd have to use a waterproof finish: polyurethane would be good.

BTW "font" pre-dates its use to describe a typeface. It comes from the use of molten lead to cast the blocks used to make moveable type. The liquid metal was called a "font", latin for "fountain", e.g. "font of all knowledge".

**Shedhand** · 22nd February 2006, 07:59 PM

Zen, you're a font of knowledge.

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