I think the cost is mostly going to be materials. ZKY already offered his labor and if needed I am sure someone else on this board with necessary tooling would offer a little time for a good cause.
Now if it is made out of 1/2 copper that isn't going to be cheap! Even still it shouldn't come to much money if even a few share the costs.
I don't think it has to be 1/2" thick, 1/4" would even be fine or even 3/16".
My idea is to flush mount it into the concrete by building a form, laying the plaque face down at the bottom of the mould and then pouring the concrete in.
When removed from the mould the plaque would be embedded flush.
The lettering would need to be no smaller than 1/2" characters. That means if it's upper and lower case the lower case can be no smaller than 1/2". The plotter can cut rubberized sand blast stencil only so small.
And then there's the question of do you guys want the lettering raised and the blank space etched away, or do you want the lettering etched in. What ever is picked the lettering needs to be fairly large which means the message will need to kept somewhat short and to the point.
Lets not worry about any of the money stuff right now. Right now lets just nail down a plan. I will look into obtaining the copper plate and I'll talk to my computer sign guy about the sand blast stencil. The other option would be to have a piece of copper or bronze casted but I'd imagine that would be astronomical. However with enough people contributing it may not be that bad. I'll look into that as well.
You guys need to get the verbage written out before much else happens. That will dictate how big the plaque needs to be which will let me know what size remnant I need to be looking for, and a lot of other technicalities.
I think Kristina would be tickled pink if she knew what we were up to.
She probably already knows.
