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Check this out. I just buy this sign shop in Aug and in Sept someone brings in a camel and wants me to decorate it for a camel race. Fortunately they didn't want a quote first - just instructions with "do it."
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I do mostly vinyl striping and some auto molding work... a upholstery shop phone once and had something special for me to do... was a glass box that this old lady brought in.. was homemade and sealed on sides with silicone, she wanted a gold molding on edges.. all I could do was stripe the edges with gold film... charged them $40.... the box was about a foot high.. inside it was a pink plastic rose..... TACKY!
------------------ Del "aka" badge trimline@telusplanet.net Holden, Alberta
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Gee Laura that's an awfully personal question is'nt it? But it did involve my wife so I don't think I can answer that question... Neil.... Ohhhhhhh, You meant what's the wierdest sign thing we ever did, geez is my face red or what.. before christmas we had to do a huge blowup of elvis, I don't know if that's wierd, but this guy was making a shrine of elvis to give to his wife for christmas. Yah that's wierd. Neil
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Back in 91 we did a fleet of microwave ovens. Client wanted them with red skins but the manufacturer would not change over the production line for just 50 units. Also put a red pinstripe all away around the glass window and covered up some of the buttons. Client was selling microwave pizza and popcorn from vending machines in cafaterias. Idea was you would buy a frozen pizza then put it in the nuclear oven for a couple of minutes and lunch would be ready.
------------------ Chuck Churchill, It's A Good Sign Inc. 3245 Harvester Rd, U-12 Burlington, Ont. Phone: 905-681-8775 Fax: 905-681-8945
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I painted the numbers on the runway at Kennedy Airport when I worked for the Port Authority. They were 20' x 60' each. There were planes landing right next to us too!
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You know what's dumb? No one has asked me how we got the camel in the shop? I recently hired a new designer, 19 years old, still wet behind the ears. I have a worker out back that does all the production and so him and I started telling this young thing about this camel. She couldn't figure out how we could get a camel into the shop and what kind of mess it made.
------------------ Laura Butler Vision Graphics and Sign 560 Oak St. Lapeer, Mi 48446 810-664-3812 visiongraphics@tir.com
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I had a guy come up to me at a bike rally about 10 years ago and asked me if i could match anything, I told him I think so why what did he have in mind? he then proceeded to sit down in my chair ad lift up his pantleg, he then twisted off an artificial leg and handed it to me! I was like.... OK? now what exactly did you want me to do again?? well, he wanted me to paint this leg to look like his other REAL leg! hahahaha man I'm just another HO with a brush and paint! hahaha! it looked great by the way!
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This camel sure beat the same old real estate signs. It was fun, I got some mileage out of it with other customers, and I even got paid - $700 in time but just couldn't bring myself to charge that.
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I once painted an entire croquet set for Dow Chemical Co. It was a retirement present for one of their higher ups. They made it out of Polymers of some type, and machined the balls and poles to look like wood. I had to use aviation paint to stripe them with.(2part epoxy) That was the only thing that would stay on them at that time.
I also did a Tombstone once, temporary vinyl lettering to be replaced later with the real thing. Guess that practice didn't go over as I never got called again.
Bill
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Ed, I got one for you. This was told to me a long time. Someone once painted the word COW on their cow. Unfortunately they found the cow dead with a bullet hole through the "O" in cow.
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As a prop builder Ihave made and painted a 8 foot subway foam sub cut in half so two people could wear it in parades. Did you ever go to a paint store and ask for a gallion on hot dog bun colored paint? I spent the better part of a year restoring and reglittering a 6 foot dia. Cinderalla pumkin horse drawn coach built in the 1930's for ringling bros barnum & bailey circus. 8 pounds of gold glitter and 4 of green glitter now owned by the circus hall of fame museum in peru ind.
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I made an over-the-driveway arch with the words "Budapest Pines" on it in rural West Virginia about seventeen years ago. At the end of the 1000' paved driveway was the plantation, er... mobile home. I went by for the first time since then just last year, and it was still there.
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