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Posted by Bevin Finlay (Member # 2159) on :
 
Hello everyone; my former employer and friend for many years...Steve(the Mayor)Shortreed and host of this great website will be glad to see that I finally got around to posting my butt onto this site. Forgive me if I make any stupid mistakes, but this is all fairly new to me. I met Steve a number of years back when he caught sight of me airbrushing a mural onto a car hood at a local car show near his home town of Fergus, ON. I had been doing automotive artwork for a few years at that time but wanted to learn about the sign trade. As I stayed in touch with Steve and Barb, I later on became employed with them and was introduced to the letterhead atmosphere. Need I say more...the opportunity to work in the type of shop that they had at that time was more valuable than several years in college. Since those days I have logged over twenty years in the custom automotive paint trade with numerous awards and magazine features to my credit. I have had the pleasure of meeting some great people along the way and admire them all for their individual talents. In the fall of 1999 I chose to follow another interest and trained to acquire my commercial pilots licence for Helicopter. Recently my family( Linda and daughter Laura )and I have relocated from Midwestern ON to the beautiful area of North Bay, ON. Here I hope to continue to gain my initial experience in flying and am working to try and establish myself again in the painting and sign industry. Regardless of whether the flying goes anywhere for me or not, I know that I will always continue to paint...but sometimes you just need to try something different...just to see if you can do it!

Bevin Finlay
215 Mountainview Dr. Unit 1
North Bay, ON
P1A 9R8
bevinfinlay@scsinternet.com

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Bevin Finlay
North Bay, Ontario
Canada

[This message has been edited by Bevin Finlay (edited July 25, 2001).]
 

Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :
 
Welcome to Letterville Bevin! It's always a special thrill to see one of our longtime pals show up here at The Letterville BB.

Years ago, Bevin, along with Doug Downey, Pete & Marj Payne joined a bunch of other strangers at our shop here in Fergus, Ont. To our knowledge, this was the first Letterhead Meet in Canada. Many of the people at that first meet never attended another meet but look at the names that did.

I'm very proud of Bevin. He is one of the most talented airbrush artists I have ever met. I know how much it hurt to put his dream of supporting his family off his airbrush work on the back burner and pursue becoming a helicopter pilot. It takes real guts to make hard decisions. Bevin Findlay has that kind of courage.

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Steve Shortreed
144 Hill St., E.
Fergus, Ontario
Canada N1M 1G9
519-787-2673
steve@letterhead.com
ICQ 316338
www.letterhead.com/profiles/shortreed/
 

Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
 
Welcome Bevin...I believe we met at Steve's last summer when Gail and Dave Beattie were there... If it was you running the airbrush (seems to me it was a beaver doing unmentionable things to...) I admire your talent!

Make yourself comfortable..this is a nice website to visit.

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Dave Grundy
AKA "applicator" on mIRC
"stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!"
in Granton, Ontario, Canada
1-519-225-2634
dave.grundy@quadro.net
www.quadro.net/~shirley
 

Posted by Karen Sartain (Member # 241) on :
 
Welcome to Letterville Bevin! We needed an airport in our little community. Hope you do really well at your new venture and ya know, you can always paint on the side

Karen

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Karen Sartain
4030 J75 Drive
Paonia, Co 81428

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
-Stephen Covey
 

Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
 
Welcome home, Bevin!

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Warning: A well designed sign may cause fatigue due to increased business.
http://members.tripod.com/taylor_graphics
walldog@nc.rr.com
 

Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
 
Bevin
Welcome to a great site.
From the East coast of Canada.

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Raven/2001
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower Sackville N.S.
deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca


 

Posted by Terry Whynott (Member # 1622) on :
 
Welcome Bevin!

I've seen your work. You're AWESOME! It'll be nice having you around town!

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Terry Whynott
Andesign Inc.
www.andesign.ca
Kitchener, Ontario
terry@andesign.ca
 

Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
 
I know Shortreed flies everywhere without leaving his room. Can you set him up to fly those choppers on his computer too? Welcome to Letterville.

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The SignShop
Mendocino, California
"Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
 

Posted by Bob Darnell (Member # 27) on :
 
I've met Bevin briefly a few times. He does absolutely incredible airbrush work - if you get a chance to see his portfolio or his work in magazines you're in for a real treat.

Anyway, glad to see you made it here Bevin! Welcome.

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Bob Darnell
London, Ontario, Canada

Portfolio: www.members.home.net/bob.darnell
Where I work: Excellent Signs and Displays Inc.
 

Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :
 
"FLY" on down to McCalla AL(bring Steve with you)meet some others with the same interest.
We will say Howdy to ya

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PKing is
Pat King of
King Sign Design in
McCalla,Alabama
The Professor of
SIGNOLOGY


 

Posted by Rosemary (Member # 1926) on :
 
Welcome! Where can I see your portfolio??

:^)

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Girls carve too!
Behind every good Woman, there's a man.............waiting.

http://www.stmariegraphics.com


1911SRs and Paul Reed Smith Bass Guitars!
 

Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
 
hey bevin!

let me tell you people something... this guy can paint like nobody's business. i only hope that you all can see the bike he did in the brigitt bardot theme. you would swear that was real fur on that bike.

we had the pleasure of having bevin down for a night when he was delivering painted bike parts to the harley dealer near us. i only wish he and linda (and laura, too!) lived closer to us and now he has gone and moved even further away! guess it just makea a great excuse for a road trip!

welcome to letterville, findog!

have a great one!

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Bruce Bowers
DrCAS
Signtech

"how great are His signs..."
Daniel 4:3

i am a proud supporter of this website!


 

Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :
 
Here is a quick page I through together with a few photos of Bevin's work. Enjoy.

www.letterhead.com/profiles/bevin/

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Steve Shortreed
144 Hill St., E.
Fergus, Ontario
Canada N1M 1G9
519-787-2673
steve@letterhead.com
ICQ 316338
www.letterhead.com/profiles/shortreed/
 

Posted by Mark Fuller (Member # 2128) on :
 
Hello Bevin, and welcome.

Your work is great! keep it up, just don't move to my side of Lake Simcoe

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Mark Fuller
Fuller Signs
Keswick, Ontario
CANADA
 

Posted by J & N Signs (Member # 901) on :
 
Good of you to join us!
Nice work!

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Mario G. Lafreniere aka Fergie.

http://www.onlink.net/~mgl

jnsigns@onlink.net
Chapleau, Ontario home of "The World's Largest Game Preserve"
Spring is upon us,in Shania Twain Country. Farewell snow,here comes the mosquito!

"I cut it twice and it's still too short!"
 



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