-grampa dan
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Shnazzy!
Posted by Mark Neurohr (Member # 2470) on :
Real nice Cam! Abolonie??
Posted by Amos O Werner (Member # 9858) on :
Nice detail, really stands out.
Posted by Elaine Beauchemin (Member # 136) on :
really appealing. Amazing Thanks for sharing Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
wow ya must had to take cover .... with that glue chip glass flying lol ...wow looks outstanding wow
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Cam, your work is just awesome . . .
can't even decide which is my favorite . . . this one or the black sheep pub or any of the other beautiful works you create!
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
WOW!
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Sweet, love glue chipped reverse gilded glass. Nice job Cam.
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
Cam, with a Beautiful Glass Sign like that, they had better be chef-ing up some Real Good Pizza!! what is the overall size?
Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
Thanks for all the nice comments.
This place does serve good pizza, but it's not a "gourmet" pizza place - it's a family business, Greek immigrants, who are personable, serve good food for reasonable prices in a clean, friendly atmosphere. I should emphasize clean - this place is far and away the cleanest restaurant, of any type, that I've ever seen. The owner's wife usually works the evening shift, they close at 10pm and scrub the place top to bottom every night before the leave. They do a slamming lunch business - at noon you can wait for a seat - and a very good dinner business, very popular with families in the local community. In other words, they don't do anything outrageously unique, other than they take their business seriously and don't take their customers for granted. I've done menus and signs for them for years - and I eat there pretty regularly too.
These people could teach seminars in how to succeed in a highly competitive business.
Edited to say: This sign is 26" x 48". The genesis of this job was that the beer distributor offered them a free Budweiser mirror. The owner called me and wanted to know if I could ceate a "mirror sign" that advertised HIS business instead of Budweiser's. I showed him some of my gold-leaf samples, and told him a job like this would be $2500, plus the cost of a frame. He paid cash.
[ September 25, 2008, 02:33 PM: Message edited by: Cam Bortz ]
Posted by Jerry Berg (Member # 7841) on :
Cam, Did you leaf this or use chemical deposition? I bet it makes people take a second look!
Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
Jerry, this project was all hand-leafed. The glue-chipped background was water gilded with 12k white gold. I then sized it with one-shot fast size and applied aluminum leaf. This filled all the inevitable holidays that result in hand-leafing over glue chip.
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
Great stuff Cam! One more question-(ok 2) did you apply the glue thickly or thinly? How deep did you blast?
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