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  1. A chance to make a banner! Need a favor

    I can't open the iSign Latitudes Links either Hightop...I must assume it is because we are not subscribed members... Dear iSign, are you one of my dearly departed college professors come back to haint me with your most excellent soliloquy in your post #55 in the forum afterlife...? I am a...
  2. A chance to make a banner! Need a favor

    Nice drawings you guys have added for Hightop...I enjoy seeing the differences in how other signmakers think on the subject...I used to really enjoy doing church banners for all sorts of occasions... Nowdays, I have to do them digitally in 4:3 format for projection on several "screens" as I am...
  3. Using Craigslist

    Yep Jill, he also stepped on a hand grenade tripwire of his own stringing and well, ya know went kaboom....where's a habitual gonna go next for a fix...? :-)~
  4. Digital Sandblasting.

    Southern Pediatrics text redo looks much better to me Tommy....The white letters with black outline, green block shade that you used in your first design would work quite well also... I know the Large caps on front & end of names is "stylish" and popular, but in my humble opinion only works...
  5. A few more Christmas windows last weekend

    Great work Steve,,,I wondered if you made any patterns to speed things along... I just plain love seeing your brush strokes everywhere...just goes to show that window splashes are best with "let 'er fly brushworks"... Please tell us what paints you used, soes I won't have to guess any...
  6. Digital Sandblasting.

    I know where you are try to go with the sandblast background digital version for print Tommy...you need try more photoshop embossing to create more digital texture on the background... I've done alot of similar actual sandblast signs and've done job drawings to fit also... Design wise, your...
  7. sand blasted aluminum

    I gotta kick and a tickle out of the picture, and thanks for that... there's kinda a lack of info here as to what was being blasted away... Letterman7 says it all on blasting technique....If sandblasting an image, all efforts are screwed by heat on thin materials.... :-)~
  8. Increase your portfolio

    well dang...I see another merchant member in post #34 highjacking this (SD&F's) ad thread.... That's some real kosher merchant member etiquette if ya ask me, and yeah i'm being sarcastic... Ryan, I have some jobs for you to quote for me, will try get the art finished to email by midweek...
  9. Digital Sandblasting.

    Methinks Artbot in post #4 nailed it...nice texture Artbot..! :-}~
  10. Needing a STRONG 4x8 Sign Frame to go into ground

    I would use steel tubing 4x4 (1/8th" wall at least) also....paint it white and use cheap pvc caps or finials....angle iron frame in between...if ya don't weld, it's still easily bolted together...ya just need some tool to cut steel and a drill and some good bits.... ...
  11. "nuther HDU Hand carved sign done

    Thanks for further details Signmeup....I can certainly vision the mounting system now....as i said before...well done...!
  12. "nuther HDU Hand carved sign done

    I like it very much, Well Done!....the posts especially add some elegant architectural style to the panel shape....! How did you fashion the mounting brackets? I'm assuming this is HDU on the carved panel and single faced...? From the scale of the posts, the panel looks to be about 3 ft X 5...
  13. What does your shop smell like?

    my shop smells like paint, sawdust, and welding fumes.... sniff sniff...hhmmm, something smells like smoke... uh oh...
  14. Whats cooking

    what's cooking...? whatevr fits on the grill...in case dearly beloved isn't in tha mood.... and in case the signmaker economy totally tanks and goes south, an i have to live in my shoptruck, i have a hibachi grill that hangs off my ladder rack...custom built for drastic emergencies and...
  15. vinyl zapper review

    I have electric mbx zapper....I LUV it...50 trucks like Jackflush states, no problem, have extra wheels on hand... fiberglass gel coat, works fine tho gotta use a light touch not to burn (i.e turned yellow)...painted fiberglass, use a light touch and it will work...yeah depends on the paint, if...
  16. no its not signgold

    looks like very nice work adkmaid...i wish i could zoom zoom the picture tho for better looksee like with your outlines...i love gold leaf also.... ...
  17. Save your scrap

    i wish now i had thought of selling my scrap vinyl.... i use my scrap vinyl (and weeds) to add colour to my "vinyl ball"...it keeps growing and growing and growing.... :-(~
  18. Does anybody have a creative way of recycling all the backing paper we throw away?

    Same here WB..... I also save and use larger pieces (silicone side up) on my work tables when edge gluing pieces of HDU (and wood) using polyurethane glue like Gorilla or Excel when I need to glue laying flat...Glues won't stick and makes for easy sanding... I use it for paint masking with the...
  19. I saw this van in the drive-thru yesterday.

    Yeah, I bet he was handlettering backwards so he would be sure and not run out of lettering space.... ...
  20. Does Anyone Carve into Stone?

    LOL Adtechia....I can sell ya a magnum size brick and a special duty stone chisel at a special fellow signmaker's discount... :-)~
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