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Posted by Pierre Tardif (Member # 3229) on :

Two topics in one to save paper...

Just curious. I have the luck to work with the brushes every day as I do only window splashes. In Quebec city, there's only 3 signpainters left out of more than 150 sign companies. I never thaught I could be a dinausor at 34!

Here's my curiosity: Who here in Letterville still rely only and exclusively on their brushes and paint to do signs?

And I am putting serious thaught about FKAB letterheads meet part 2, since I still have my big place in Quebec city until september. Date would be in may as the meet schedule permit it. Let me know.

[ March 24, 2004, 10:51 AM: Message edited by: Pierre Tardif ]

Posted by rene st-pierre (Member # 4116) on :

GREAT
i like this news pierre
i can help a lot if you need made a f.k.a.b.2
i think hard made a meet for 2005
call me my friends

Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :

Pierre,

Almost everything here is painted.
Most of the shops around me have gone the way of vinyl and I've managed to carve out a reputation as the "paint guy" around here. Fortunately, there's still a lot of people who prefer paint over vinyl.
I do have a small vinyl machine, mostly for making masks and getting thru race cars quicker, but rarely use it on signs.

FKAB II?
That would be great...especially if Andre Tardif is making breakfast.

Rapid

Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :

Pierre.....is there any other way to make a sign or window splash????

[Smile]

Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :

I play with mine every day.
Oh! BRUSHES, you mean -- yeah, them, too...

Posted by Murray MacDonald (Member # 3558) on :

Bonjour, Pierre...
Think I mentioned this on another post, but when I first got back into the biz, I went to the largest sign shop around here and told him I was a brushie. he told me that anything I could do with a brush he could do on a 'puter. That was 8 years ago and his bottom line has decreased about the same amount as mine has increased. Do I still play with the brushes? Betcherass!

MUR

Posted by Wayne Osborne (Member # 4569) on :

Everything I do here is Hand lettered,My home town has some very strict planning controls which
cry out for a traditional finish especialy on some of our older medieval buildings and shops.
I do a little vinyl for vehicles but I get this from a friendly local all vinyl shop . In return they give me any Gold leaf or pictorial work they get in )

Posted by Steve Thomas Greer (Member # 4566) on :

Yo Pierre....

I hand paint everyday! If I didn't have that luxury I think I would pack it in! If you are hosting another event You can count me in!

The brush and hand will out created the computer
anyday!

Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :

party at pierres!!!! cool! [Applause]

Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :

I do half @ half Pierre.

Posted by Kevin Gaffney (Member # 4240) on :

Sometimes really envy you brushies. Nearly twenty years in the biz and never use the brush any more. Over here, nobody ever asks for painted work anymore. Besides it's still possible to turn out some stunning work using the right machinery and get through the basic stuff quickly as well

Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :

98% Brush
2% Donated vinyl work

Can't teach this puter to climb a ladder [Dunno]

Posted by Kevin Doehrmann (Member # 2947) on :

Though I am only a part-time shop, I am a full-time sign PAINTER. Love your stuff, Pierre

Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :

I paint, handletter and airbrush about 80% of my work, I still have paint under my fingernails from 1990!

Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :

....... all graphics are hand painted, and all copy about 1/2 hand-lettering & 1/2 vinyl here too, moinssieur.
. . . also spray a lotta auto enamel on sign faces, big letters and cut-out alum. letters . . .

Don't get to do many window splashes here . . but I have hand-painted vinyl for big windows.

Posted by Jon Harl (Member # 4427) on :

I hand letter and carve with chisels. I know my friend Lane Walker in Reno hand letters only. He doesn't even own a computer (no internet-no e-mail) does his bookkeeping by hand.

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