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  1. New Building!!

    still working on it....... 2000 sq foot of carpet removal 2000 sq foot of tile removal 2000 G*#DA@N sq foot of black tar removal that the tiles were glued with, only took 6 gallons of rapid remover and 13 gallons of mineral spirits to remove and still some spots here and there...
  2. New Building!!

    We are doing the closing this afternoon on our new location!! we have finally purchased a building and telling the landlord to stick it!! we are doing some restructuring on what we will continue to offer and adding some new things in the process. I am absolutely fricken thrilled about...
  3. Chainsaw Carved Logo

    i didn't watch him do this. He sets up at festivals and car shows and does live demonstrations and sells his stuff. I have seen him carve a bald eagle in about 20 minutes using three different size chainsaws.... around the corner from our shop he carved a 15 ft tall eagle with its wings out...
  4. Chainsaw Carved Logo

    It cost a partial trailer lettering..... he has also done a "welcome bear" that stands about 4ft, and an eagle with a walleye in its talons for me earlier this year
  5. Chainsaw Carved Logo

    Although this is in the portfolio section, we did not actually make this. We had a local chainsaw carving artist make this for us. It is 3ft tall, 5" thick, and weighs close to 100 lbs, solid oak - relief carved. We think it turned out pretty good.
  6. external hard drives...

    we use a terra station. a single hard drive can and will fail. our terra station has five drives in it with redundant fail safes in it, so when a drive fails we loose nothing and can replace a single drive on the fly. Also it is networkable, so we can access the same files from any computer in...
  7. Sandblasting & Gilding Granite - Questions..

    Years ago i worked for a tombstone place and we did alot of countertops also with the occasional sign thrown in. Drilling the granite is just time consuming, a high quality diamond bit is a must with plenty of water. Mounting dimensional letters to it is fairly simple and will not crack the...
  8. Digitizing?

    honestly, if the place doing the embroidery can not digitize it, there could be issues... and why can't they? we do in house embroidery and digitizing, anytime a client brings in their own digitized file, we usually have to rework something here or there to sew out properly anyway....just...
  9. 14' box truck, cut vinyl pricing?

    First Signcraft don't pay your bills.... Second, using your math, you are only making $21 an hour profit, if you said $60 an hour in labor. I am not questioning that you will make money, i am questioning that it takes 8 hours to install 307 sq ft of vinyl?
  10. Anyone Closing Christmas through New Year

    we usually try too, we always have good intentions, then start saying yes to jobs that have to be done...
  11. How much could I make?

    thats a loaded question. Your value is different from company to company, city to city. Wondering what your worth is not the route to think. What can you do to make yourself un-disposable to an employer? Thats what you should worry about. Years ago as a operations manager for a large sign...
  12. What does your shop smell like?

    solvent ink, fresh vinyl, and stale farts....... so i'm told......
  13. GFP laminator?

    Anyone have any feedback, good or bad, on a Graphic Finishing Partners 400 Series? My Seal is acting real funny, no problems with it in 4 years, and today nothing but problems. It acts like it is pinching harder on one side then the other, it bunches the material in the center and ruins...
  14. Registering you business name.

    I know of three other businesses using the name we do, all started after we did and even one is in kansas with us Another one in another state has some issues coming, as we have received communications of them about to be sued for trademark infringement, and since they are using our name we...
  15. Reshaping Logo

    if you are stuck on that concept...... i think the vector doc above nailed a good approach to your issue
  16. One of "those" guys...software? What's that?

    no sign company sells the "exact same product". Shops get different material prices from different vendors, some get better bulk pricing for massive volumes. Gouging is a relative term of course, i have noticed that most people that complain about price are ones who have never owned a...
  17. Supplier/Distributor Frustration

    try n.glantz and son or midwest sign and screen supply
  18. One of "those" guys...software? What's that?

    sell on quality....not price... i know of many cases that we have been quite abit higher, even double on multiple jobs, and we still get the jobs, why? We will build you a quality sign and put our name behind it. good luck in your endeavors of cornering a market that is flooded with...
  19. Mimaki JV3 LCD screen

    Mimaki JV3-130SpII 4 years old, very well maintained and all original parts Not sure what is going on, but came in yesterday morning and fired up the printer and noticed that when it first comes on the LCD usually flashes "Please Wait". It was flashing "ase Wait". then when done it had a...
  20. shop space

    our printer room alone is 14ft x 20ft, the laminator is in a different room, along with the tables etc, we feel squeezed with about 1500 sq ft for production alone in the clean space, then have the shop on top of that and my office and the apparel setup, etc..... thats just us, people can find...
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