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I'm working on 2 8'X8' painted diabond signs. The background is hanpainted and the second pic shows some of the paintmask removed. I've got to paint in the lettering, airbrush some, add outlines and apply zip track to the bottom 2' of the sign. Versacamm is running full boar and I've got lots of other work to squeeze in between drying times!
This is from a design I farmed out to Stevo...what a great way to keep the workflow moving, thanks Stevo!
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Love the coveralls Linnie. At the moment I have: 1 flatbed truck (doors) 1 Semi (doors) set of mags for the Butler County Fair Queen 5 baseball team sponsor banners (4x8) 3 Hockey team championship banners (3x10) 1 big tanker truck for a lawncare place 1 church van 1 wall painting that I've had to postpone twice due to inclement weather (64 sq. ft) 2 showcards for the country club 1 truck door job to bid on a sub-out sunbrella school banner job (28 total) to bid on that damn .125 aluminum job bid on All too much to take pix! I love that design. Glad we're all so busy! Love....Jill
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I should be getting dirty today, but I haven't made it out to the shop yet.
I met w/ a customer (financial advisor) this morning about designing her company a new logo.
I applied five prints to some pvc panels for a construction company, and did a small set of mags for them too.
Just had a little lunch, (my mom's stuffed peppers ... yum!) and now I'm going to put on some dirty clothes and head out to paint on a sand blasted sign in the works for a veterinarian, and revamping another customer's (who is a cpa) existing carved sign. It needs fresh stain, and the carved letters need to be gilded. I haven't worked w/ gold in awhile, so I'm abit nervous.
Nettie
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Our shop is quiet this week as we are taking advantage of the good weather to get Giggle Ridge spruced up for opening soon.
In the shop there are lots of projects underway. The parade float in the foreground needs final details... the parade is in 10 days. The polar bear sign needs to be finished and moved out of the shop before we can get the float out.
And there's other work in various stages of copletion scattered around the shop which will go into production once again next week.
But today its time to spend a little more time in the sunshine.
-grampa dan
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-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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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I'm writing a letter to a disgruntled would be client, who wasn't pleased that I wouldn't do his sign for the price he set. I'm sending my regrets that I wasn't able to accomodate him, explaining my pricing structure and reassuring him I wasn't just trying to get the better of him.
Living in a very small community where every one knows everyone elses business means you had better keep customer relations good. I have offered to sell him the substrate and assured him that he could probably have someone local cut the blanks to shape and hire a student to do the painting at at least $100 cheaper than me, but they don't have any overhead....
I have a horrible taste in my mouth....
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Currently working on (50)2'X6'one color vinyl on aluminum signs. (12)18"X 4'sandblasted subdivision signs. (1)4'X8'blast/carved depot museum sign. (2)7'h.X 8'w island entrance monument signs. (2)blast carved entrance signs for local university along with another sign for them. (2) separate church signs. Installing (3) 4x8 for sale signs today. and a bunch more smaller signs along with designing new stuff and running the front end of the business. Too much work really but I guess thats why we're in business.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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here is my shop at 4:30 this afternoon. Full of jobs waiting to head out the door and collect $$$. Some versaprints getting installed on a late model tonight, a carved urethane ready for some post holes, and a little bit of everything else.
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-------------------- Jerry VanHorn, Pres. Pure Sports Designs, LLC Pro Sign Design / United Wholesale Signs www.prosigndesign.comwww.unitedwholesalesigns.com West Liberty, OH 937-465-0595 866-942-3990 Since 1990 Posts: 925 | From: West :Liberty, OH | Registered: May 2004
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BTW - we close on the house next door to ours next week that we will use as a rental. The main reason for the purchase is the 1500 Sq/Ft detatched shop that is 30 feet from my back door. That will be used for extra storage for the bucket truck and all the unneeded supplies stacked around in our current shop. I can't wait.
-------------------- Jerry VanHorn, Pres. Pure Sports Designs, LLC Pro Sign Design / United Wholesale Signs www.prosigndesign.comwww.unitedwholesalesigns.com West Liberty, OH 937-465-0595 866-942-3990 Since 1990 Posts: 925 | From: West :Liberty, OH | Registered: May 2004
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Working on a school gym repaint design with two bear murals on the end walls with " Home Of The Grizzlies" painted on the side wall.This is a project for summer when the area is free.
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Today we worked on location at Venture Logistics. We delivered three - 4' X 5' X .080 aluminum directional signs lettered with light blue reflective and 2 channel posts. Then we removed the old numbers from seven 53' trailers and replaced with new ones and then added their logo to the front of each trailer. Whew! I'm glad we are almost finished with this job. Working on walk board and ladders sure is tiring. We delivered 2 sets of 18" stencils on Monday. We lettered 7 trailers,2 day cabs, and 1 spotter truck earlier this week. We have 8 more spotter trucks to letter and number, then we will be finished with this job. The best thing about this job is that the check will be here tomorrow. Don't you love it when your customer looks out for you and pays you promptly! Judy
-------------------- Judy Pate Signs By Judy Albany, Georgia USA 229-435-6824
Live simply...Love generously...Care deeply...Speak kindly...Leave the rest to God. Posts: 2621 | From: Albany,GA,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Here's what I've been doing- 8ft tall mural of a character from the game "Warcraft"- It is in a computer gaming place. All freehand airbrush. here it is about 9 hours later-
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1735 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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This week... 24 step stake signs for a builder. 50 decals for a construction company. 6' X 4' sandblast sign for a propane company. 8' X 3' MDO sign for a restaurant. "Superman' panel for Barry Might sneak nother race car in (rush for next weekend...gonna cost him!)
...and a partridge in a pear tree. 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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Playing catch up. I was mush for a few days week before and am still paying for it.
Finished a run of coro signs for elections and 15 12"x18" heavy copy signs.
Got to figure out materials and order for a carved 2 sided, gilded & (maybe) smalted sign. (Finally got the approval)
Gotta price out another one, hopefully carved.
Quote new faces for a business that's moving, along with aluminum signs.
Print an order of printed reflective decals.
Do sign for my dentist's office.
Price a landscaper's truck. Hoping I can talk him out of what he wants. lol.
Cut some decals for a trucking company.
Bunch of stuff for new drilling rig....hubby keeps adding to the list, lol. I'm kinda looking forward to crawling all over a $1 million dollar piece of equipment.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Not makin any money, but keepin myself busy. I did these over the weekend.
And this vector art rendering from the 1910 newspaper masthead below it, for a nonexistent glass project. The light yellow "is" gold leaf, red background "is" stipple blended. All depends on what your definition of "is" is. It's just a vector drawing.
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Finished re-furbishing the fireplace mantel. Then did some edge prints for my daughter's company. I had done this originally for her. ...now she has changed her name a bit as she does realtime captioning only now. Not court reporting and discoveries, etc. I also had to adapt the design for an edge print label for her new "machine"
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Geesh, a week went by and I'm still not done painting those signs! Been one of those weeks!
You guys are working on some cool stuff!!
Gerry, I'm curious if you laminate those prints before installing, and if you install wet or dry/with or without transfer tape????
Don, that recreation is great! I live right close to Winnipeg and was shocked to see a guy from Florida end up with a 1910 newspaper from the prairies!!
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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I got a whole lot of boring stuff going on, but it pays the bills
Here's our set up area...
The lamination room with some digi-prints curing...
The fabrication area where I'm assembling signs...
and a boring sign that I just completed...
There are 2 - 3' x 10' faces behind this sign that are boxed up and ready to be installed too.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
-------------------- a.k.a. Brian Born www.CheckersCustom.com Harrisburg, Pa Work Smart, Play Hard Posts: 3775 | From: Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. | Registered: Nov 1998
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This is what I have been working on this past weekend. The logo is 20' tall x 30' wide. The tower painters called me on Thursday wanting to know how to hang the pounce pattern they had purchased from someone else. I explained that flat paper does not lay well on a round ball, and then told him how much I would charge to draw the logo on two sides of the tower... After he regained conciousness, he proceeded to tell me that it had to be completed before Tuesday morning. I told him to add 15% to that price and Fed-ex a check for the deposit, and I would start as soon as I received the deposit. I finished it last night .
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-------------------- Don Hulsey Strokes by DON signs Utica, KY 270-275-9552 sbdsigns@aol.com
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Hey I have a little twist to the creative puzzle of projects here. I have been woodcarving characters for years and during a recent gathering of glass folks from all over north America, I wanted to create an award for someone who has really given a lot to glass carvers...well...his name is Tom Eddleman and so I created this carving for him (the original will go to him) and the first recipient of the Eddleman Award was given to Fred Self) molds will be made for this annual award and the cast one will go to Fred). Tom is always trying unusual methods so the carving you see will be him pointing at a piece of glass on an easel...in his golfing attire...foot on an enema bag....the title..."I GOT IT TO WORK!"
It is ready to have molds made and then I will go in and airbrush the piece and mount them to a base. I do think I may be adding a funny hat to him...but we shall see.
-------------------- Robert Beverly Arlington, Texas Posts: 1023 | From: Arlington, Texas | Registered: Jan 2001
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I just got done cutting, sealing, sanding & painting some cut outs for the local animal park, Deer Park, on MDO. I will be airbrushing them tomorrow. One is a sheriff that stands next to the jail in Frontier Town, & one is a cartoon lion for the kids to stick there heads through. I have 16 steps from our wood shop up to my sign shop & boy are my legs tired!!!!
-------------------- The Word in Signs Bobbie Rochow Jamestown, PA 16134
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Sorry Si, I don't have a finished pic. They had intended to use a pounce pattern and paint it themselves. All they wanted me to do was draw it so they could paint it. It still took some time to layout the grid and draw the logo at 20'x30' two times.
Plus, on Monday morning I was over half finished with the second side when the owner decided it needed to be 5' to the left. As you know, the grid pattern has to be distorted from the center point to look flat when finished. I had to start over with the entire grid, plus working around the old marks. The tank company paid me for drawing the layout, and the owner paid for the time to move it.
They put it in the air yesterday, and will do the painting as they do the touch-up from flying it up there.
This is what it is supposed to look like when finished.
-------------------- Don Hulsey Strokes by DON signs Utica, KY 270-275-9552 sbdsigns@aol.com
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I know just how you felt! I was called in to do a logo and name on a 60 foot spherical tank. We met to discuss size, placement, etc. Arrived next morning and drew it all out for the painters, gave them an invoice and left. 5 o'clock they call..."Not big enough!" they want it as big as possible! I said "Then you have to paint it out!" "We already did, how soon can you be back?"
Yes, the 2nd invoice was twice as large!
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