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Your bank routing number and account number are on every check you write, and your clients account numbers are on every check you receive. ACH is my preferred payment method. No fees like credit cards, and funds usually within 24 hours, and I don't have to go to the bank like a cave man.

What material do you want engraved? There are different types of lasers for different materials. I have both a CO2 laser and a fiber laser.

I usually just cut strips of aluminum and bend them with the brake. If you don't have one you can just buy aluminum angle and cut it with a miter saw.

I would also use steel or aluminum posts. Probably steel as it's cheaper.

I would cut circular pieces and weld the whole thing together.

So you're trying to hang a banner flat in front of the column? If so just bend some all thread to fit around the column and attach the two ends to a piece of unistrut. Your idea of large hose clamps is also decent. You could connect multiple together if you can't find ones big enough. Unistrut...

Are you trying to wrap the columns with the banners, or mount them between the columns? To wrap them I would make the banner slightly less wide than the circumference of the columns, install grommets, then string bungee cord zig zag through the grommets. You could also possibly use zip ties.

Yes, a router.

Agreed, our laser is a boss 250 watt 4x8. I've never experienced ridges or cutting stresses in any material. I've never seen one in person, but Kern would probably be the brand I'd look at. They have some with massive tables and 400w of cutting power. There are several YouTube videos on flame...

We use a laser it gives polished edges right off the bat. Before we would flame polish with a propane or mapp gas torch. I'm not sure any machine would be capable of polishing insides and corners of small letters. Lases come in many sizes. Personally I wouldn't get one smaller than 4'x8'.

We sand our acrylic letters with a DA sander for faces, and scotch Brite on the edges, wipe them down with denatured alcohol, then paint edges and faces all at once with industrial enamel.

You can make your own pretty easily. Ours is a large exhaust fan vented out the roof that pulls air through a wall of filters. The previous tenant (cabinet shop) put it together from a kit. It works alright.

That would depend greatly on the quantity of signs, sign material, and how the graphic is going to be printed or applied.

We installed a sign that came direct from China. It was front and back lit and the mounting studs were attached simply by gluing riv-nuts into the red acrylic backs. The glue started failing during install and we had to bring them back to the shop, tear them apart and re-assemble them using 3"...

I build all my own rigs and servers. My daily driver is a used dell workstation I bought for $60 added 64 gb ram an SSD, and a AMD workstation card. All in was around $400. Everyone's stuff is saved to a TrueNAS server I built from a barbones supermicro server off eBay. It backs up nightly to...

I've found that white acrylic thicker than typical 3/16 thickness doesn't light well and I use clear acrylic for all my push throughs/ edge lighting. The light is diffused by using a 3/16 white acrylic backer that is glued to the clear. The faces are either left polished, sanded, or have vinyl...

All our local suppliers charge for delivery for orders under $175. It's pretty reasonable. I usually just add printer ink or something to meet the minimum.

Working for a college changes everything. I find that most the time government type jobs pay depending on time served and not on performance. A staff of 7 for signage for one college? Sounds pretty comfortable to me. We have 11 people and did about $1.5 million worth of work this year. For me...

I was thinking the plate would have countersunk screws going through the back into the letters. You would have to mount your letters first and the moss guy would have to work around your letters which may not work for him.

Usually we install flat cut outs just as you described. Studs are threaded into tapped acrylic letters, or attached with glue pads. Then we drill the hole pattern in the drywall add the spacer (usually a piece of 1/4 or 3/8 PEX tubing) then silicone the stud in the hole. 2.5 inches is a pretty...