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I used to. I still have mine. I escaped from the shop with it.
I drive 58 miles to my job each way every day. I do this because I look at it as the price I pay to live where we wanted to and keep a job I truly enjoy.
How far do you drive?
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
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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We drive across town, maybe a mile. Sometimes we walk, but not nearly as often as we should...
What's your favorite type of exercise?
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Surface gild last week. Glass gild about a year ago.
When did you last paint on a brick wall?
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Oh Ray it's definitely creativity . . . or is it the learning to be more laid-back in the creative process . . . or is it . . . . . .well ANYWAY- being totally and completely inspired by the awesome talent and willingness to share . . . there could quite possibly be no end to answering this question Ray and you KNOW it . . .
Q: How many pages do you think this game will likely become? How far can this go?? Is'nt this so much fun?! Ack! That's THREE questions, is'nt it??!!!
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Karyn, I used to handle them by taking priority calls for quicker smaller stuff I can do fast in-between larger jobs as well as advancing income to rush a particular job and also juggling those customers who were willing to wait - since turn-around on most stuff is two weeks ANYWAY and rightly-so . . . .
Meanwhile . . . I also reply by juxtaposing the same-opposite question . . . can you please remind me of some of the umpteen-several ways to generate work when your knee-deep in time-with-no-jobs??
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Go on holiday! Work has poured in the door once I planned to go to Moose Jaw! Trip starts TODAY!
Vicki (my daughter) is looking after the business while we are away for six weeks. I told her not to panic with the work load. Just tell people "NO" can't do it today and look after our regular customers.
How many Letterheads are I going to cross off my "meet in real life" list this trip? Lots I hope.
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I so wanted to meet you too, Bushie. But, due to timing issues, I won't get to make the Moose Jaw meet. Maybe I will hopefully get to meet you on your turf one day soon. I'd like to bring you some genuine Vidalia onions from here in Georgia. You ain't lived til you've had a fresh Vidalia Onion sandwich, and maybe with some Marimite or vegimite and some sharp cheese to go with it. Question: I absolutely LOVE Gardenias!... What is your favorite flower?
-------------------- Nancie W. Phillips White Dove Painting Studio 74 Dacula Road, Dacula, GA 30019 678-887-3339
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Depends on WHEN you are asking. Most of the time our shop is relatively organized. With 4 people sharing stuff, if it gets too messy, no one can find anything. Every so often we all do a mad clean and put things away and vacuum, etc. but when there are 20 jobs pile against the wall, cleaning has to take a back seat until it is absolutely necessary.
What's the favorite project that you ever did? One that you can point to and say, "I did that!"
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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The reception area at Polaroid's main location in Boston. The concept rendering won the construction contract for a good friend's start up business...despite the fact that I drew it with a cast on and 6 pins in my wrist from an operation just 2 weeks earlier.
What's the farthest you have ever traveled to do a paying job?
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
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One is saw TODAY was: "After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. Do you lines go up or down?" What material do you think is the biggest pain to work with?
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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We did a van repair, working on 3 different sets of golf outing signs, a print for a tractor restoration, a banner for a DJ, repaired some numbers of a semi, working on (printing) 12) 4X8' for the National Guard units all over the state, some metal hospital signs (no smoking) and a logo for a new steak place in town and I'm working on a pastel portrait. WHEW! That was quite a DAY!
What is the BIGGEST job you ever took on?
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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A 8 story hospital, all the ADA signage and directional signs, a little over 600 signs. Scared the hell out of me being a one person shop. Everthing worked out and they are a steady customer I have done 3 surgery centers and 6 clinics for them since.
Ever long for the bygone days before vinyl, everything seemed a little more laid back painting full time with One Shot.
-------------------- Silver Creek Signworks Dick Bohrer Two Harbors, MN Posts: 236 | From: Two Harbors, MN USA | Registered: Jun 1999
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Constantly. I especially miss the kind of customers who hired you based on your style. These days everyone has to see a computer printout of what THEY are getting...what you've done before means jack squat.
I can't even remember the last time a customer asked to see my portfolio.
What's the SMALLEST thing you ever painted on?
-------------------- 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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My design, fully dimensional, hand carved sign with hopefully some gold leaf on it.
-------------------- Chris Shuster BlueGrass Design, Inc. 16 Court St. Winchester, KY 40391 859-737-4199 Posts: 18 | From: Winchester, KY | Registered: Feb 2007
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Oh, forgot my question...when was the last time you had to ask for a variance on a sign job...and how did it turn out?
-------------------- Chris Shuster BlueGrass Design, Inc. 16 Court St. Winchester, KY 40391 859-737-4199 Posts: 18 | From: Winchester, KY | Registered: Feb 2007
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Last week- and I don't know- they haven't replied! (it relates to a window logo in frosted vinyl being 1/8" off horizontal over 2 feet- my fault...!) I'm offering them a bit of other stuff for free, so I can leave it crooked. Alternately, I can maybe sneak over when it's closed, with an exacto, and trim it straighter, maybe...
Had a good week?
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Yes I have. Been kind of laid back and lazy though. But I got a go ahead on a package of signs for a condo project and supplies arrived today so I've got some panels to cut today.
What's the big idea?
-------------------- Mike gatlinburg Sign Crafters Posts: 1051 | From: Gatlinburg, TN | Registered: Oct 2005
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Today...putting a cherries on top of a pair of sign posts for an ice cream shop sign I'm installing this afternoon. Quick description... Sand and shape the top of the wooden finials, coat with primer, spray with a silver metallic base and finish up with lots of anodized red. Just got them painted and they look very realistic. A piece of pipe cleaner in each for a stem.
What technique of signmaking are you planning on learning next? (Airbrush, leafing, carving, etc)
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-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
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