Recent content by Signstein

For cleaning glass prior to painting / gilding - though usually the powder.

The Edge and Envision are great machines. I first learned on them over 20 years ago and still use them occasionally, mostly for small jobs that call for spot white on clear.

Agree with Stacey. The actual fastening may damage the paint a little, but I do this all the time. You can also just touchup the heads with paint using a cheapie artist brush after install.

Take a look at the General Formulations 200-series films. Polymeric calendared, 5-year, under $200 for 54"x50yd in my market.

I save some of the liners to use for messy or paint projects. Also use them for wrapping up completed signs for delivery.

I've used the faux wood products from Texture Plus before: https://www.textureplus.com/store/faux-wood-paneling.html Specifically, I've used mostly the bamboo and barn wood for various signs at local theme parks / waterparks and they have held up well. You may need fancier finishing or edge...

GF 201 https://www.generalformulations.com/product/gf-201/

There will always be some waste. If you're new to the industry, then you're also new to latex printers - they waste media. Some films need to be pre-tensioned on the takeup roller, some require more ink, some require printing uni-directional which wastes more time, etc. There will always be...

We have a lot of old buildings that have been brought up to code and they have weird accessibility access like I imagine this location does. One building here you have to go around the back, to the opposite side, then up the ramp, back across the front toward the front door. Some other buildings...

Frog Juice comes in aerosols: https://www.ronanpaints.com/frog-juice

I paint treated posts all day every day. Mostly for parking and street signs that need to be replaced after being struck by vehicles. Haven't (knocks wood) had a failure yet. And I'm putting them up in 1-2 days. Just use a good primer and paint and you'll be fine.

You can also do this now with .usdz files and an AR viewer app. The apple headset does it as well. I guess you'd have to design/build your 3D sign file first, then open it in your AR app to view/show your customer. https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/tools/ https://www.pixar.com/openusd

Others will likely have more robust software suggestions, but Microsoft Planner works for me. It's admittedly basic, but is still lightyears better than Excel. It doesn't do inventory, but has project completion variables - so you could keep track of how many signs you've made for your monthly...

Paper here too. 20lb bond. I get it in 24" rolls and use a felt tip pen in the plotter.

Ha! We have a college campus next to us so we are regularly finding signs have been stolen, swapped places, vandalized, etc. I once had a simple parking sign "reinstalled" for me with 6 lag screws. My foreman has told me stories about signs being returned years after they went missing - the...