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Lay down your vinyl in your clean room.Hose down the floor with water also your bench and yourself.

All videos look better with techno music in the background.Nice work

These folks have a nice extrusion for an edge lit http://www.signcomp.com/

http://panniergraphics.com/

You can charge whatever your work is worth. If your just slapping some stickers on the side of the truck than you can use some of the formulas said earlier. On the other hand you can charge a lot more if your work is superior.If your designs and execution are honed nicely and no one can...

I worked out of my house when I first went out out on my own in the year BC.The home shop lasted about 3 months. Falling asleep to the aroma of bulletin enamel grew old very quick. If your just putting stickers on plastic and can make a good living at it doing it out of your garage I'd say...

Could you mount your prints to some coro then attach that to the plywood ?

Nice tip.We don't sandblast any more but when we did we used a technique that was similar.We would coat the blank out lay down a low tack gerber mask ,spray glue (with photo mount)1/8" pvc onto the mask rout the first pass with a v bit or a down bit then hog the rest out with an up bit staying...

Travis, If you plan on making and installing signs as a career you are going to have to buy the right tools.Go buy the right drill and bits etc.You won't regret it

You "won" the bid but sounds like like you didn't "win" Chalk it up to a learning experience.You just paid for a lesson in sign pricing

25 feet in the air I wouldn't worry about a seam

Quick books and email them the invoice.

Great book.I got the reprint from the 80's.It's covered with one shot.Had to draw a giant ellipse the other day and forgot how to do it.The book came in handy

A good place to start would be doing some research and educate yourself on sign fabrication technique.This might help http://www.signcomp.com/ Products like this make life in a sign shop so much easier.The cost of this stuff is more than it would be if you smithy it out of sheet metal but when...

Why not use one of the many alum extrusions that are available to the industry and fab it to suit the need ? Self etch prime and paint with Matthews

3mm acm comes black/white.You get it from your sign supplier.

Using old material and peeling the old vinyl cost the customer more.Do the math.Unless your time isn't worth anything.Don't be a bottom feeder.Let someone else have that job and use your time moving on to a profitable job.

They don't make em like they used to

If anything in our shop is taking up space and not making money we pitch it

Is this what you mean ?