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Putty paint and make it what it ain't With all the choices of sign substrates MDO is a poor choice.

Edward J Duvall said this about that This is an excerpt from an old sign painting book IN THE STUDY of every craft, profession or art, you must start at the very beginning. There are certain basic fundamentals that you must understand thoroughly before you can progress in any line of...

Nice. Love the barnwood and the rust

I think it has to do with demand. Today's generation of sign make has no interest in Matthews or any of the other you mentioned. Back in the early 80's an old retiring sign painter gave me his library of old sign books. All original Atkinson,Matthews,Strong and much more. Lot of good...

Looks like a handcrafted one of kind custom lettering job. And it looks like a little more than a just a font.You got your engine turn,outlines and drop shadows. If you need to reproduce and are not sure how to there are some merchant members here that can help you.

Cool looking sign. Nice to see something different. Excellent use of tools and materials. Thanks for the eye candy.

This is the reason I install a lot of signs crooked. So the rain does not flow onto the face

It's really a shame that a lot of sign work is just a commodity like sliced lunch meat sold by the pound. If all you are selling is ink on banner material and that's all you have to offer good luck you will have to charge what the competition charges.

A race to the bottom is not a good formula for success. Trying to compete against the sign mills and make money is not possible.

Here's a redneck way We made a neon sign that was a stage prop that had to flicker. This worked for the show but doing this as a permanent sign might not be recommended by the experts. You could hook a dimmer switch to the primary side of the transformer and reduce the voltage to the...

I knew the day would come when signs are cheaper than sliced baloney.

Can't help you finding cheap stuff. Don't understand people trying to figure out how to provide customers with prints for $2.50 a s/f Can't be much profit in that. I would focus my effort in the opposite direction. Instead of consuming time trying to figure out how to do it cheap I would be...

Keep it. A pounce pattern comes in handy every now and than

I love lifting rolls of vinyl. It's good exercise.

We charge by the pound of vinyl used.

cheap vinyl applied to cheap latex does not work. Look at the bright side you got this education and it did not cost you that much.

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You could cover the liner paper with cheap vinyl. Curious as to why there can't be a name on the liner paper.

If it's only 50 why not do this with cut vinyl and be done with it.

It's hard to make money with a plotter since there is on on every corner. It's even harder trying to sell something that has no value.