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I just tried to weed some 3" letters out of some Oracal 5700 reflective. It's akin to removing vinyl from a vehicle... if said vehicle had been out in the sun for 5 years or so. Not fun. Is this typical or do I have 50 yards of defective material here? (I have weeded several other brands of...

Here is a layout for a carved sign for a cottage. The sign is a gift for a boyfriend of the client. The boyfriend has a "40 foot sailboat". Is my crude depiction close enough to a sailboat? I mean are the sails totally wrong? The client doesn't know any more than I do and I can't ask the...

I thought this was pretty funny. http://tithenai.tumblr.com/post/3215186237/two-churches-located-across-the-street-from-each-other

I bought some Ronan fast dry gold size and it seems fine except... I like to use 2 coats of size. It gives me a better finish. If I use Ronan size the second coat won't lay down. It's like I waxed the first coat and then slathered it with silicone. The size just beads up. Is this stuff waxed...

I've watched the videos on the Rollepro website but they don't explain how you apply the vinyl with the little tent rows over the rivets. Can anyone shed some light on this. Maybe there is a video that I've not found?

I needed two 7.5" ball finials for a recent sign job. Couldn't find a source so I made my own. I glued up scraps of HDU with urethane glue. Then I cut a pattern out of thin plastic and had at it. I haven't turned anything in a couple of years so it was a bit of good fun for me... except for the...

I installed this sign today. It's about 75 degrees and sunny here today so I thouroughly enjoyed the process. The sign is 96 x 54 not counting the small oval sign at the bottom. The thing weighs about 300 pounds (I'm guessing) so I had the town electric commission lift it up and place it into...

This one went up last week but they hadn't painted the yellow posts dark brown yet so I just took the photo today. I only fabricated this one... I had nothing to do with the design. Well... I stuck their logo on an oval and convinced them to make the panel creme instead of white. They wouldn't...

Well... big for me. Here are a few pics of the glue up of a 54" x 96" double sider. I glued and screwed the spacer foam and let it cure up then the front face was glued on. This cut the workload during glue-up and made all those parts sit still instead of squirming all over with wet glue on...

How do I set the program to keep objects the same aspect ratio when I re-size them? It irritates me to have to use the shift key to do this. I would rather set it so the shift key let me distort the object and just click and drag would leave the object the shape it is....if that makes any sense.

Yesterday a friend of mine taught me how to rappel. We started on the steep sides of the local gravel pit and ended by rappelling out of my workshop attic. Good fun. Climbing up the sides of the gravel pit was a good workout too. Now we're looking for a higher spot to come down. Any climbers...

I've been carving since I was 9 years old and the tools I have are all cobbled or handmade. I've never purchased a real honest to gosh carving chisel. I figured after all this time I deserved a little treat so I ordered a chisel from The Best Things. It's a beaut... an Ashley Illes 3/4" swept 90...

Anyone here use Rolco quick dry size? What are your thoughts on it?

Can someone please tell me the name of the font I hand carved into this sign a few years ago? The B's are what I'm looking for.

I'm interested in starting a blog... I think. To post something to a blog is it like posting a few lines and a picture on Facebook? I just tried that and it's really easy. Is that what a blog is like? Maybe there's a link to "Blogs for Dummies" someone knows about?

I'm putting the traditional double stripes on a 66 Cobra replica tonight. Looks a bit daunting around the trunk and hood scoop. Any general tips on wide stripes would be appreciated. The stripes are 7" wide and an inch apart. I'm thinking I will be cutting some sections on the car. Do you apply...

I'm doing some work at a Pub (yay) and I need to use these fonts if at all possible. Anyone know them?

I can't see thumbnail images when I search thorough folders in Explorer in Windows 7. I just see an icon that says jpeg or png etc. No little image. It's been like this since I got the new computer and it's costing me time by slowing down my ability to find pictures fast. I can make the icons...

I have to buy a new laptop for my daughter for university. My budget is around 500 bucks. Which of these 2 would be the better to go with? I'm wondering if the i3 380 is better or worse than the i3 2310 OOps.. there are three...

I just finished these for a nearby amusement park. It's a small park but quite nicely done. They wanted the signs to be similar but different from each other. The signs are all HDU except the pizza has Magic Sculpt toppings on it. I love that stuff. They have their own blacksmith so they are...