Joe McKernan

Joe McKernan is a semi-retired sign maker, Bruderhof member, and a longtime contributor to SignCraft magazine. He has specialized in handcrafted signage with Danthonia Designs in NSW, Australia, for over 24 years, and currently lives in Chester, New York.

Refurbishing handcrafted signs: A second life for weathered work

About ten years after my wife and I began making handcrafted signage, we started to notice that some of our earliest work was… Read More

Successful sales start with the right questions

In “Step-by-step: Carved urethane sign” [SignCraft, May/June 2002], I mentioned a four-page checklist that we use here at Danthonia Designs during customer interviews…. Read More

Scale your graphics for the viewing distance

One of the reasons many people come to our shop for a sign is that they like our painted and/or sculpted pictorials. An… Read More

Make HDU board look like quarter-sawn wood

Here’s my method for creating a faux wood finish on HDU board that makes it look like the face of a sign panel… Read More