DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Thanks for the step by step! ...another technique goes into dan's wonderful bag of tricks.
Cool stuff!
-grampa dan
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Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Cool Mark! I bookmarked it. Please don't take it down for a while so I can get a chance to try it out. Or just email me all your html and images!
Thanks for sharing! Looks good and it easy to follow!
-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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Mark, very slick, and, as you say, simple, but looks "way more!"
what gloves/mitts , if any, did you use? Hot sintra burns, ya!
thanks for the great step by.
John
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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Very very nice work. Thanks for the steps, especially the wrinkling effect. I would not have had any idea. I have used the technique of the water spots over the years, and I used to keep some vinyl done like that around before I started running the Edge. It came in handy many times in using some of it as accents in car lettering designs etc.
Now for my question: I don't know what it is for? I won't feel stupid if it is sport related, since I don't know anything about that, otherwise, maybe I will feel dumb. It looks like an art object that could be displayed just because it is beautiful. Is it?
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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hahaha Myra, you sound like my wife. I'm always painting something (mostly practice panels) and she's always asking me, what do you do with it/ what's it for. It's not "for" anything, it's the ride not the destination.
This particular piece was swapped with a friend who made me a cool pinstriped clock to give my son for Christmas. His son is into hockey and hot-rods and those are his teams colors.
I guess if you stick your pinky out far enough you could call it art ... but yeah, it just hangs on a wall. (put hole in the back flap to hang)
Gloves probably wouldn't be a bad idea but it doesn't really bug me ... if it's too hot to touch I wait 5 seconds ... the heat absorbs and disperses pretty quick.
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Wow! Incredible. As good a rush as a Dan S. post.
Outdoor durable too, this has other posibilities. Use the same technique to emboss some ribbons or flames on a vehicle...I think I'm getting dizzy, overload...overload...
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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Amy and others....you can e-mail any thread to yourself....simply click on the:
"UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!" right at the top of each page and insert your e-mail address in there.
Cool stuff Mark!!!
Myra, my daughter just played basket ball this year, I could really envision making smaller simular versions of these (without the hemming just 'wrinkling' for a dimensional shape) and painting them and adding vinyl copy, as little trophie gifts for each kid... all kinds of sports!!
But then...might would haft'a get a tool & die guy and get into injection moulds for the sheer quantity of demand.... fo'get aboud et.... best kept as a very unique and special gift idea for any kind of sports person!
Other ideas:
~You could make cool 3-D fish as a gift or to use on signs!!
~Would make a really cute sign for a tailor or seamstress shop...make it bigger and shaped like a dress or suit and letter with shop name! Or for a quilt shop...just a warped square painted with colourful quilt patterns!!
~Also, using this technique for creating realistic curling banner-ribbons is a great idea James!
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Thanks for the how-to. Also thanks for the other how-to's on your website. Very helps ful for some just starting to pay with Vinyl.
-------------------- Peace, Love, and Music Greg Feil Medina, Ohio http://www.psychoarts.com "Kerouac's got his words that reach for the young and the ramble hearted Cuz those'r bound to move gotta hit the road" Posts: 86 | From: Medina, Ohio | Registered: Jan 2004
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Very cool, Mark. I'm amazed that you can nail something so perfectly on the first try.
There has got to be a market for those things.
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Of course, people have been doing the ribbons for years, what got me about Mark's method here are the edges. I was thinking that a ribbon or similar graphic could be made with edges, then adhered to a vehicle with fiberglas strips along where the edges meet the body. Followed by bondo, glazing compound, sandable primer (The usual body work stuff). Since it would all go on "cold" that is, no welding, the finish beneath should remain intact enough to protect the metal. However, I was concerned that having air trapped in there would present some eventual problems. Maybe holes at the bottom edge.
People have done vehicle embossing before, but I'm thinking about more depth with less labor. The whole thing might be ugly, but I should try it on a panel.
My ideas hinge on a variation of a different sign making method. I've never done or seen it, but I was told that the custom molded polycarbonate backlit faces are heated over cut out letters, the plastic gets soft, then forms around the letters in an oven of sorts. So what I want to experiment with is cutting out a shape from used sign board, laying the PVC over it, heating it with a torch, carefully, then pushing the plastic down around the thing underneath with a rounded wooden tool. Might all be a flop , but it's what I was thinking about last night whilst inspired.
One of the things I'm thinking of using this on is some scroll work from Don Coplen's 'teaser' CD. Some really nice designs in there. Smooth flowing curves that form a demensional look.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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Very COOOL Mark! I liked your step by step...
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Excellent Mark. That would be a cool story for Signcraft. Good thinking Dave!
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best kept as a very unique and special gift idea for any kind of sports person! 
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, but it's what I was thinking about last night whilst inspired.
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