Copper Plaques for Peace Poles
A lot of bang for the money.
The tradition is posts with text on them. The habit is posts that are too small. Size equals stature equals presence. The message is better served with enough size to give it presence. The time it takes to make plaques is the same for large plaques as it is for small plaques. So they cost the same. So you might as well go large.
Click the photo at right to see the difference between a 4 by 4 and a 6 by 6.
How to save money on a larger peace pole
A larger piece of wood is not that much different in price than the smaller one if you buy it rough-cut. It's the shipping that adds about $200 more. If you buy the piece of wood locally, you save that.
Anyone with an electric drill can attach the plaques to a post in half an hour. The copper plaques come predrilled with holes for screws. The brass screws, a drill bit and a screw bit included. I can put the plaques on a post and ship it to you completed if you prefer, but if you buy the post yourself locally, you can save a couple hundred dollars.
For more information about buying the piece of wood yourself locally, click Wooden Peace Pole.
At left are plaques on a rough cut, cedar 6 by 6.
Dedication Plaques
At right is a close-up photo of the text on a copper peace pole plaque.
In addition to language plaques, I make dedication plaques, which are smaller. Sometimes there are two or three dedication plaques on a pole. For instance, one dedication plaque might say "September 21, 2010" on one line and then "The International Day of Peace" on the next line. And then another dedication plaque might say "Dedicated to Peacemaker" on one line and then "Heather Longineau" on the next line.
Caps
I
also can make copper caps for your pole. Cap #12, at right, is $100. Cap #3, at left, is $250.
Others, seen below, are priced in between. Additional ones that I make sometimes can be seen elsewhere on this site on other
peace poles.
Caps are made to fit your pole. Usually just telling me the
size of your peace pole is all I need. If the wood has been custom cut,
some people saw an inch off of the
pole and send it to me to use as a template to make the cap fit exactly.
Shipping
Shipping plaques alone is $25. Shipping plaques and a cap together is $40. The cap arrives in a separate box.
Cost of plaques and cap for a four-sided pole:
4 plaques ................. $400
1 cap ........................ $100 (for Cap #12. Others are available)
Shipping ................... $40
Total ......................... $540.00
Dedication plaques are $50 each. Additional language plaques are $100 each. There is room for a total of 8 language plaques on a 4-sided peace pole.
To ask questions or place an order, call me at 513-348-4744. Or send an email.
To have me put the plaques on a cedar 6x6 and ship it to you, add $260 for the wood and the crating and shipping.
Other Caps
The pole doesn't have to be four-sided. And it doesn't
have to be symmetrical. One person cut a four-sided 8" by 8" into a
six-sided pole, but when it was finished the sides varied in size by as much as
an inch. An inch was sawed off the top and sent to me so that I could make a cap
to fit its asymmetrical shape. Most of my caps can be made to fit poles with
different sizes and different numbers of sides.
The cap above right sitting on the grass is Cap #5. It is copper with brass accents and is $150.
The cap below that at right, with the shiny disks, is for an 8-sided pole. It also can be made for 6-sided poles. It is Cap #11 and is $250.
The cap at left, Cap #9, is $150.
The cap
next to a curtain at right, Cap #8, is $150. This one works better on a 4x4 pole
than a 6x6. It was created for a man in Sweden who told me he was going to put a
4x4 peace pole in front of the aikido
dojo in his garden. He said that the founder of aikido said "aikido practise"
should be a prayer for peace. So this man wanted a peace pole as part of his
prayer. For his situation I thought the cap should
larger than 4x4 so above where it attaches to the
pole I made it larger than the pole. That works well on a 4x4, but on a 6x6 that might be too large.