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I was talking to the owner of a sign company the other day who needed help gilding a sandblasted sign. The subject of hand-lettering came up and he said "Nobody does that anymore - all those guys are dead."
Damn, I didn't even know I was sick......
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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I thought this was a reference to business being slow... I know we spoke in Pontiac, but things have really picked up for me... (although I need that to explode for the rest of the year to counter how bad it's been... but at least it's on the right track)
Here's to hoping things are back on track down South too!
quote:Originally posted by Sonny Franks: I was talking to the owner of a sign company the other day who needed help gilding a sandblasted sign. The subject of hand-lettering came up and he said "Nobody does that anymore - all those guys are dead."
Damn, I didn't even know I was sick......
And this guy is asking for help gilding?
I hope you gave him a "stiff" price
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
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So if I'm dead, does that make me a ghost signwriter?
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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I'm long gone like a turkey through the corn... with my red pajama's on. Anybody seen my "greyflash" hogleg?
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Teach a kid some of what you know, possibly one who's got the fire in his eyes for it. The statement is not that far off. I do see the humor in it though.
-------------------- Bob Sauls Sauls Signs & Designs Tallahassee, Fl
"Today I'll meet nice people and draw for them!" Posts: 765 | From: Tallahassee, Fl | Registered: Jun 2009
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That guy must belong to the group who has been saying that sign painting, or hand lettering is a dying art. I have heard that way back in the 50's.Welcome to the land of the walking dead. Bill
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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Reminds me of a friend that came into my office a few years back. He took one look at my dinosaur computer setup, pointed to it and said, "The guy that invented THAT?... he's DEAD."
That's just gotta mean my system is worth SO MUCH MORE now, right?!?
Start selling your work for zillions, Sonny. Yer dead and everything is worth more after that happens. Says so in the tabloids you know.
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Hmmm... some days I feel dead from the neck down, other days, dead from the neck up. As long as those two feelings don't line up at the same time, I must be okay.
-------------------- "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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See the forum talk about the death of lettering enamels as we know it today. The forum would be at the "Autoart" magazine site on internet. Just a thought! Not my way of seeing the life of a sign painter or Pin Striper. The next Level...? www.autoartmagazine.com See, "Here's the Deal" !
Jack
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-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Ya know, this sounds like we need a t-shirt. I'm gonna have to work on a design. I have to come up with a catchy phrase.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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I returned from the dead today just to letter an old restored race car circa early '70's. Thank goodness the old codgers, who brought the car in, left it on the trailer so I didn't have to get low.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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My brother who died last year was really into stock car racing and letter ALOT of cars in his day. Several of his old buddies got together and restored a car that he probably lettered in the 60's. Today Bill relettered it in his memory. They called it the "Green Wienie". They are displaying it at the "oldtimers night" at the Fairbury race track this weekend. Bill did a great job of matching Shorty's style....
-------------------- 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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-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
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The news of my death has been greatly exaggerated.
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Sonny, Tell the guy he's right, and guilding surgeons do that work now-a-days; but charge him accordingly. Mark Baty
-------------------- Mark Baty Mark 1 Studio 1980 SE Leeann Drive Waukee, IA 50263 Posts: 45 | From: Waukee, Iowa | Registered: Aug 2008
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-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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quote:Originally posted by Joe Cieslowski: If hand lettering painters are dead.......
Hand carvers must be deader than dust!
Joe,
Makin Chip$ and Havin Fun!
You must be a "Joe-Bot" no wait a "Multi-Joe" What's that a "Gerber-Joe" you say?
An "XYZ-Oie" Come on Joe fess up!
And if you can switch tools without having to think about it, you must have that built in tool memory changer too!
-------------------- Sam Staffan Mackinaw Art & Sign 721 S. Nokomis St. Mackinaw City, MI dstaffan@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1694 | From: Mackinaw City, MI | Registered: Mar 2004
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-------------------- Len Mort Signmaker1.com 11 Juniper Drive Millbury, MA 508-865-2382 "A Good Business Sign, is A Sign of Good Business"(1957) Posts: 811 | From: Millbury, Ma | Registered: Dec 2006
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I am amazed that hand lettering is such a lost art. Every once in a while, I get some young person come up to me and ask where you learn this profession. Somehow they never seem to pursue it, as I see less and less hand work. I heard they even quit teaching it at Leavenworth! That must explain why no one steals my brushes?
I remember in the late 70s, old Matt would come into our small sign shop from N. Glantz with his leather case full of brushes for us to pick through. Today, Glantz hardly carries any brushes and in fact, I have to get mine shipped in from Royal.
Then there is the mystery of what to use to store them in. Tranny fluid? WD40? Glycerine? I just wish they could put 'spell check' in my quills.
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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