Tom Earp
 

Look. I am having a hard time ignoring you, seeing as how you are a Moderator and all. But how about in the future, if you have a concern about where MY posts belong, you send a PM to the appropriate moderators. As far as I can tell, you are NOT a moderator for Greek Life, so how about you leave it to them to worry about?

Furthermore, paddles have been part of GREEK LIFE for ages, so I don't even see how you can't understand why I put this in the GREEK LIFE section. In fact, you COULD have PMed me, but you were so busy trying to "flex" you didn't even think to do the more Brotherly thing. In your words, DA! I SPECIFICALLY wanted to know whether I could decoupage onto wood, stained or unstained, and if anyone has done this before to share their experiences. You haven't, so hush your fool mouth.

Finally, please don't tell me, or attempt to tell me, what is allowed or not allowed in my organization. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., does NOT have policies against the use of paddles as gifts between members. Neither does Alpha Phi Omega. You remember them, the frat you claim when it's convenient to you?

In closing, you are not gangsta.

That is all.

ajuhdg, I think my mom might read that, I'll see if she picked it up! Thanks!

Our paddles are not now a display of hazing, and in my chapter they never were.

So yes, my chapter still does paddles (we do them by new member class, one for each NM and one for the living room of our house).

I'm not the guru of Greek Life, I'm just a little more MODERN than some of you.

Now let's all go to the Legion and talk about the good ol' days and watch Benny Hill turned up real loud.

Hey, my mom had that copy of Good Housekeeping....the article was helpful!

If I try this over the summer, I will let y'all know how it turns out.

Hmmmmmm.....maybe this can be a birthday gift for my mom!!!!! (DST, Fall '71)

So nearly two years later, I am finally decoupaging something, LOL.

Actually, I did decoupage a small box and it turned out very nicely.

So now I am finally finishing up my APO line's paddle. I will post a picture when it's done. On the back, I will be decoupaging a photograph of my entire line and pledgemaster.

I have done this once before, for my big's paddle, but that was seven years ago. I am not sure if I need to use something like contact paper to protect the photograph. I know I used something like that on the previous paddle I made.

Anybody with advice, let me know. I don't want to ruin the paddle after all this work.

http://oldgoldsoul.com/gallery/data/...paddleback.jpg

http://oldgoldsoul.com/gallery/data/...dlebacktop.jpg

http://oldgoldsoul.com/gallery/data/...addlefront.jpg

^^^^ niiiiice. uh, my Deltaverary is May 17th. :D

THAT is truly awesome. :D

Very nicely done!!! :D
Are you currently taking any orders?

Very nice.

Nice.

Nice:cool:

Thank you all. :)

The wood burning work was provided by a current undergrad -- I am really not good at that aspect. But everything else was all me, from the concept to the finish. The high gloss shine comes from a few coats of polyeurethane (sp?) finish. I applied it directly over the picture and the GU and APO patches.

Our line's paddle was the first one to use the patch form of the coat-of-arms. The standard used to be those water decals. A few paddles carved or burned in the design. In later years, they started using the wood versions available in most Greek stores.

I used self-adhesive letters and applied the finish directly over it.

As far as the picture, I used rubber cement to affix the picture to the wood, and used a VERY thin coat of the same stuff to protect the picture from the finish, just in case.

As you can see, everything turned out fine.

I will definitely be working on some more paddles over the summer, and I will post pictures if they turn out okay.

That looks great! :)