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This first photo is one of the first sandblasted signs that we did in this area about thirty years ago. I was working for another compmany then. I did the orginal design and all the blasting, construction, and painting. It is all clear heart redwood.
Over the years, someone ran over the sign and it was reinstalled on pipe, plus it was painted several times by whoever painted the apartments.
This afternoon Mike and I put the sign back on its posts after refurbishing it. Water had seeped into several joints and rotted the wood away, so we removed all the old soft redwood and packed the areas with Magic Sculpt, then took all the paint back down to wood, primed and repainted with Porter acrylics.
The sign is now ready for another thirty years.
Cost: $1,000. We also have some other signs in the complex that are being replaced (that we didn't do originally) When they are installed I will show some more "before and after" photos.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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My all time favorite sign of the ones I've ever built was done in 1980. Another sign of the same vintage that was second only to it in my mind looks so... 1980. The design just didn't hold up.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5089 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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The 'new' white text looks routed, but the old black text doesn't- is that just because of the shadow in the depth?
I like it, and the orange/rusty leaf is a great eye-catcher compared with the old green one!
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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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You were pretty good thirty years ago Raymond. I believe you've gotten better with age.
-grampa dan
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Thirty years aah? Did you hand cut the mask for the text? Great looking job back then and now.
-------------------- 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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Raymond, Raymond, Raymond. Surely you've heard of planned obsolescence?
-------------------- Brian Oliver Paxton Signs Fort Collins, CO paxton@peakpeak.com www.paxtonsignsofcolorado.com Posts: 237 | From: ft. collins, colorado,usa | Registered: Mar 2001
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