This is the most complex one I’ve done so far, and I almost ran out of material (single straightened coathanger), so ~8 letters max. Coathanger is surprisingly difficult to bend into such intricate shapes. It took me around 2½ hours to do with two different types of pliers plus hand bending.
I literally freehanded this though, no predrawn pattern or anything, just following as close as I can to my own freehand cursive writing. I’m thinking about making a bit of a side job out of it, like $5 a letter…
What you folks think?
Edit: I made a point to weight balance it at the tip of the T for hanging on the wall or wherever.
Edit 2: Criticize me as necessary, my cursive is still slightly rusty…
Great idea. But i agree, the r is weird.
Hey, that’s the way I was taught, and the way I write my lowercase R is indeed how they teach (or at least used to teach) traditional basic English cursive. So, within the constraints and complications of bending and folding coathanger, that’s basically how my works come out.
I usually ask people before I bend their name if they want to provide me with an example of their own signature instead, but so far everyone tells me that either my cursive is better than theirs, or that they just don’t know cursive in the first place.
But hey, if someone did ask me to do their name, and provided me with their signature as a pattern, I’d definitely try my best to follow their pattern instead.