I was talking to the owner of a sign company the other day who needed help gilding a sandblasted sign. The subject of hand-lettering came up and he said "Nobody does that anymore - all those guys are dead."
Damn, I didn't even know I was sick......
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :
My god how strange is that while he needed help gilding a sign. Gilding is still done with a brush and may have to be outlined the same way.
Oh well, what do I know, I'm dead Posted by Barb Schilling (Member # 13) on :
RIP to me I guess
Posted by Vance Galliher (Member # 581) on :
.that's funny sonny !!.thanks for the laugh..
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
I thought this was a reference to business being slow... I know we spoke in Pontiac, but things have really picked up for me... (although I need that to explode for the rest of the year to counter how bad it's been... but at least it's on the right track)
Here's to hoping things are back on track down South too!
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sonny Franks: I was talking to the owner of a sign company the other day who needed help gilding a sandblasted sign. The subject of hand-lettering came up and he said "Nobody does that anymore - all those guys are dead."
Damn, I didn't even know I was sick......
And this guy is asking for help gilding?
I hope you gave him a "stiff" price Posted by Carole Bersin (Member # 5710) on :
Yep. Guess I'm dead too.
Posted by Rich Stebbing (Member # 368) on :
That's why I can't find my own pulse.
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
I though something smelled a little off. Posted by Tim Barrow (Member # 576) on :
go ahead and plant me but just don't try to pry tha damn brush out of my hand in the process,.....
[ July 26, 2009, 11:42 PM: Message edited by: Tim Barrow ]
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
So if I'm dead, does that make me a ghost signwriter?
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
Duncan,
That's your granddaughter. Change her diaper!
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
I'm long gone like a turkey through the corn... with my red pajama's on. Anybody seen my "greyflash" hogleg?
Jack
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Yup! We're not smart enough to lay down and keep still!
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
I often feel dead from the neck down!
Damn 64 y/o body stoped cashing the checks my 30 y/o brain is writing.
T least I passed on the brush skills to my daughter Vicki. She's making a go living while traveling around Australia. Hand lettering!!!!!
The trade will never die.
Posted by Miles Cullinane (Member # 980) on :
can I claim on my insurance if I'm dead? who said you can't take it with you!!!
Posted by Bob Sauls (Member # 11321) on :
Teach a kid some of what you know, possibly one who's got the fire in his eyes for it. The statement is not that far off. I do see the humor in it though.
Posted by Dan Beach (Member # 9850) on :
If everyone is dead, what does that make this place?
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
That guy must belong to the group who has been saying that sign painting, or hand lettering is a dying art. I have heard that way back in the 50's.Welcome to the land of the walking dead. Bill
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on :
Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
Reminds me of a friend that came into my office a few years back. He took one look at my dinosaur computer setup, pointed to it and said, "The guy that invented THAT?... he's DEAD."
That's just gotta mean my system is worth SO MUCH MORE now, right?!?
Start selling your work for zillions, Sonny. Yer dead and everything is worth more after that happens. Says so in the tabloids you know.
Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
Hmmm... some days I feel dead from the neck down, other days, dead from the neck up. As long as those two feelings don't line up at the same time, I must be okay. Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Before we get too defensive, do you think the Typewriter Repair business is DEAD... If you said yes, check this out... Typewriter Repair Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
See the forum talk about the death of lettering enamels as we know it today. The forum would be at the "Autoart" magazine site on internet. Just a thought! Not my way of seeing the life of a sign painter or Pin Striper. The next Level...? www.autoartmagazine.com See, "Here's the Deal" !
Jack
[ July 28, 2009, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: jack wills ]
Posted by Anne McDonald (Member # 6842) on :
Dan, that looks like my place on a friday night after a few beers Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Ya know, this sounds like we need a t-shirt. I'm gonna have to work on a design. I have to come up with a catchy phrase.
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
Good idea - I'll sure buy one, Alicia......
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
I returned from the dead today just to letter an old restored race car circa early '70's. Thank goodness the old codgers, who brought the car in, left it on the trailer so I didn't have to get low.
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
My brother who died last year was really into stock car racing and letter ALOT of cars in his day. Several of his old buddies got together and restored a car that he probably lettered in the 60's. Today Bill relettered it in his memory. They called it the "Green Wienie". They are displaying it at the "oldtimers night" at the Fairbury race track this weekend. Bill did a great job of matching Shorty's style....
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
Post mortem art attack!!!!
Posted by Ricky Jackson (Member # 5082) on :
The news of my death has been greatly exaggerated.
Posted by Mark Baty (Member # 9776) on :
Sonny, Tell the guy he's right, and guilding surgeons do that work now-a-days; but charge him accordingly. Mark Baty
Posted by David Thompson (Member # 2395) on :
To be honest, it's not the first time I've heard that I had passed away. Posted by Joe Cieslowski (Member # 2429) on :
If hand lettering painters are dead.......
Hand carvers must be deader than dust!
Joe,
Makin Chip$ and Havin Fun!
Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :
being dead ain't no fun.
Posted by Sam Staffan (Member # 4552) on :
quote:Originally posted by Joe Cieslowski: If hand lettering painters are dead.......
Hand carvers must be deader than dust!
Joe,
Makin Chip$ and Havin Fun!
You must be a "Joe-Bot" no wait a "Multi-Joe" What's that a "Gerber-Joe" you say?
An "XYZ-Oie" Come on Joe fess up!
And if you can switch tools without having to think about it, you must have that built in tool memory changer too!
Posted by Joe Cieslowski (Member # 2429) on :
Guilty as charged!!!!
Joe,
Makin Chip$ and Havin Fun!
Posted by Len Mort (Member # 7030) on :
Must be time for a seance! Posted by Preston McCall (Member # 351) on :
I am amazed that hand lettering is such a lost art. Every once in a while, I get some young person come up to me and ask where you learn this profession. Somehow they never seem to pursue it, as I see less and less hand work. I heard they even quit teaching it at Leavenworth! That must explain why no one steals my brushes?
I remember in the late 70s, old Matt would come into our small sign shop from N. Glantz with his leather case full of brushes for us to pick through. Today, Glantz hardly carries any brushes and in fact, I have to get mine shipped in from Royal.
Then there is the mystery of what to use to store them in. Tranny fluid? WD40? Glycerine? I just wish they could put 'spell check' in my quills.
Posted by Dan Beach (Member # 9850) on :
Posted by BOB HINES (Member # 2702) on :
Am ok Sonny. I never could hand letter so I just arrived in Australia this morning. Will get hooked up with some guy that knows blasting & sleep there.Sorry to hi-jack this topic but I got in touch with some of the sign shops in Brisbane & will haunt them over the http://www.letterville.com/ubb/icons/icon16.gifnext month.Ga day mate. Too bad John J was not still alive. He probbably would be in Canada anyway.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Funny, I don't recall my name in the Obituary section..
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Dear sir, It has come to my attention that, by definition of my work methods, I have been declared deceased by the majority of the general public. I kindly ask that you print my full obituary, including my business history, professional and personal accomplishments, place of residence at the time of my demise (which is also my business address) and contact information for my next of kin (which is also my business number) on a weekly basis until I'm quite certain everyone knows I have died. This will insure my continued status as a non-living hand painting sign maker indefinitely.
Thank you.
PS: I would also like to cancel my regular weekly ads in your paper. I'm too dead to pay for them anyway.
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