What if you took the letters V and W out of say, wood. Make your own version of the VW logo. Letters and disk or squares can be bought very reasonably. They take a little effort to put together, but you end up with something uniquely yours.
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What if you took the letters V and W out of say, wood. Make your own version of the VW logo. Letters and disk or squares can be bought very reasonably. They take a little effort to put together, but you end up with something uniquely yours.
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Sounds kind of familiar doesn't it Brad?
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Well I have been in the computer lab at school most the afternoon... I got many copies printed of my tag I am going to do with my signiture item... still don't know what to use, but would like to use something, with the tag stapled to it or something....
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I love collecting sig items, I think it's time for me to create one too. I have a great geeky computer oriented idea....time to start makin' them!
I have only been doing the signature thing for a month or two now . . . but then again I only started geo-caching in July.
I looked around first and thought a lot about signature items that I liked and signature items that didn't do a lot for me. In the end I decided to come up with something that would represent my on-line name, be unique, show that I took some time or effort into creating them and either easy to produce or buy cheaply . . . that and be interesting enough that other cachers might actually look at them and be appreciative of the time I put into making them.
The signature item that I came up with is a six inch wooden ladder that I make out of dowels and scrap wood. I use the scrap wood to make the ladder sides, drill holes and glue in the cut dowels. Then I sand the ladder and either leave it natural or paint it (so far I have white, silver metal, black and gray ladders) before attaching a laminated card to the ladder noting the number, my name, hometown and a couple of pictures (Bangor FD logo and a mini picture of a dalmatian (Bubba) sitting on an engine.) Finally, I bag them in a zip-lock to keep them nice and clean.
The cost is relatively minimal . . . dowels, paint, sandpaper, glue, laminate materials, etc. The biggest constraint is the time as it takes me some time to work on them . . . but I figure this winter I should end up with plenty of downtime to work on a whole batch of them to have in reserve.
I figure with the time and number system and by mixing up the colors it makes these signature items a bit unique and it definitely represents me and my interests as I work full-time in public education at Bangor FD and as a call firefighter in Unity.
A future goal is to expand into making a roof ladder with the hooks at the end . . . but that's in the future.
The only drawback I've noticed is that these ladders don't fit in some tupperware containers depending on the size . . . but then again I figure I don't have to place a S.I. in every cache I encounter either.
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wbdent My idea of a signature item is something that depicts the geocachers placing it or something that relates to the geocacher placing the item.
wbdent I also think the signature item should be small enough to fit in a cache and not take up a lot of room. On that not if there is not a lot of room in the cache then the cacher should not be putting it in the cache or trying to gram it in the cache.
wbdent I don’t think signature items need to be placed in every cache find. I usually place them in caches that I like or caches that lack anything in them. Sometime I place them in caches that don’t get visited often.
wbdent Remember this is my opinion. Everybody has their own ideas and opinions on signature items.
wbdent The reason I went with a CD for a signature item was because I was trying for the longest time to think of something that could be placed in a cache and not just be collected just as a signature item. I wanted something that people could use. I did not want something that would be placed in the corner of someone desk in a collection of other signature items they had. So I figure a screen saver might be nice. It could be placed on a computer and used when the screen saver went into effect. I also added a slide show of geocachers in Maine so others would know what they looked like in case they ever ran across them somewhere in their caching adventures. I also added some things collected from GC and other sites to help the beginner geocachers. Oh and I had to add a screen saver and a link to my baby. When I say baby I mean my web site I maintain on the Appalachian Trail. I stuck a good screen saver on it and a link to it.
Blazing Troll
And a great sig item it is! I retrieved one from the POW Camp cache in Houlton...a non-painted ladder, #21Originally Posted by firefighterjake
Uh . . . this may be a stupid question, but if you're being serious . . . any idea how it got there since I haven't done that cache yet? In fact, I've only done a few caches in the County and they were well before I was making my signature item.Originally Posted by blevesque
On the otherhand, if it's a genuine "Firefighterjake" Ladder I'm glad you liked it . . . a bit odd though . . . I thought most folks collected these things and didn't haul them from cache to cache like a Travel Bug.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that there is something more important than fear."
"Death is only one of many ways to die."
Some people do not collect signature items. So it probably got there from being picked up at one place and getting put there.Originally Posted by firefighterjake
Blazing Troll
I was the FTF on the Houlton POW Camp cache so the owner, Northwoods Explorer, had to of picked it up from another cache downstate and placed it in the cache when he created it, no jokeOriginally Posted by firefighterjake