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 ]
-------------------- Pierre Tardif P. Tardif Inc. 1006 boul. PIE-XI sud Val-Belair QC. Canada G3K 1L2 418-847-4089 pierre@ptardif.com Posts: 800 | From: Quebec city | Registered: Aug 2002
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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
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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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
-------------------- Murray MacDonald OldTime Signs 529 Third Ave S Kenora, ON. P9N 1Y3 oldtimesigns@gokenora.com Posts: 781 | From: Kenora, ON | Registered: Jan 2003
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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 )
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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
-------------------- Kevin Gaffney Artistik Signs Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland 044-75187 kevingaffney@eircom.net Posts: 628 | From: Ireland | Registered: Oct 2003
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I paint, handletter and airbrush about 80% of my work, I still have paint under my fingernails from 1990!
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3820 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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....... 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.
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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.
-------------------- Jon Harl 5731 Meridian Ave. San Jose,CA 95118
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