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So ... what are ya working on today? ... and how are you feeling about it?
Is it a good day?
Nettie
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I've got two 2x6 white acrylic sheets with "BAKERY" and the phone #. Nothing exciting but it's $$. Also someone coming by here to by coroplast. Another exciting thing. However, I am supposed to get a call today to do my first big truck. That's kinda scary and exciting!
How's St. Pete? Looks like rain about 3 hours north of ya......
------------------ Amy Brown AMBO Design Lake Helen, FL jabrown@cfl.rr.com
"If only my toddler was better with paint!"
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Hi Janette... Today is 4 magnetics, 2 mailboxes and work on a layout for a 4x8. We have been really busy since returning from vacation and I am loving it! Even the weather is starting to improve up here in the tundra.
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2 phone calls $500 worth of lettering that has to be delivered for installation by customers by Friday morning! LOL...Gawd I LOVE it!!!!!!
------------------ Dave Grundy AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley
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I'm working on some 3 ft. tall letters and several hundred foam bricks. If I have enough time, I'm going to work a little more on a life size vulture. Next week, I should be starting on some giant platform shoes and several 4'x5' 8-track tapes. Well.....you asked.
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6- 4X4's, political signs, "Moon Eyes" ona globe for a gas pump, finish a design for a promotions co., then hopefully I'll get to some of my own stuff.
------------------ Steve Barba is the proud owner, president, & sole employee of Sturgis Sign Works. "B0LT" on the chat room thing. 209 Oak Drive Sturgis SD 57785 sbarba2616@dtgnet.com 605-720-7667
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Working on (5) 22 x 28 JOB RULES signs (1/2" helvetica, and plenty of it), quoted (1) sandblasted 4' x 4', quoting (1) 4' x 6' HDU sign, need to finalize quote on 1 6' x 6' lighted sign, will cut 2 sets of vinyls for a customer's semi doors (he's installing), will cut and coat a 4 x 6 mdo for a painted sign for a horse ranch, will make (1) 18 x 24 real estate style site sign, masking vinyls for (24) polyurethane signs, assorted sizes, should cut vinyls for (3) pairs of magnetics, but doubt I'll have time, have an appointment in the neighboring town at 4pm! I'd like to be busier, though. Was last year at this time.
------------------ Tim Whitcher Quality Signs & Design 107 E Adrian St Blissfield, MI 49228 qualitysigns@cass.net
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Working on 3 P/U Trucks fort a Glass Co. Easy Layout,2 color, only problem is one of the colors is that "Chrome" stuff. I hate working with that and I offer no warranty with it. Hopefully I will have time to work on my project for the meet. I am trying my hand at "Glass Gilding", wish me luck.....
Other than that it is a nice spring like day here with temps. in the 60's. Thank goodness my bones aren't aching, I feel finer than frog hair split 3 ways.......
------------------ Troy Haas "Metal_Leg" on mIRC
SAM Signs & RPM Auto Graphix 931 W. Columbia street Evansville,Indiana 47710 812-437-5367
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I will go pick up my digital print so I can finish my 4x8 *finally! Then on my way home, I will stop by and see a dear friend of mine who is 89. ~What a sweet lady~! My kids have a half day at school today.....so I am sure part (if not most) of the day will be taking and picking up and shuffling kids here and there.
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I'm cutting some reflective vinyl for 2 National Car Rental box trucks, I've done lots of them in green, just upsold them to reflective. A sandblasted, gilded sign for a lawyer, some Edge prints for another sign shop, finishing up a design for a sign for a church that was just renovated. By the way, this church has three buildings they rebuilt just like the originals from the 1920's, all covered with clear heart redwood. They said their contractor has a connection with someone in northern California. I gotta talk to that guy. Their new sign will be redwood. This year is going well.
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I have been so busy since my "Odd" post that I havent had the time to check out the BB so much.
We got a rush job yesterday lunchtime to make 7 red banners 5ft x 15ft plus a 20ft x 3ft aluminium sign to be reday by luncctime today so last night was very late as was this morning early! But I did them in time, its now 5.35pm and i have a small sign to finish before going home!!
I must say that I have never had such a good start to a year, I have been flat out here since new year.
Hope you are all enjoying yourselves, and that the work is pouring in, its the second day of spring here although its still cold we have the same amount of light, during the day than we have darkness now which is positive, because in a couple of months it will hardly get dark here, and that's something I really look forward too!
------------------ Henry Barker #1924 akaKaftan SignCraft AB Stockholm, Sweden. A little bit of England in a corner of Stockholm www.signcraft.se info@signcraft.se
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Today I'm setting aside a dimensional store sign to start 2 leather bomber jackets for Cheryl "Shag". (I'm doing a "How-to" on them so it takes a little longer)I just got done dropping off this helmet (shown) and picked up Sportster parts to paint (Inter-twining blue and purple ghost flames on black). I'm just juggling these jobs and getting done what I can!
------------------ Robert "Bobby" Salyers Airbrush & Graphics Studio Clearwater, FL website:http://airbrushbobby.com
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.---Sitting Bull
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I'm currently sitting in front of the bb sipping my first coffee before today's big rah rah. My office is 1/2 empty, it feels like I don't even work here anymore, yet I'm very booked up. I'm moving this weekend, so it's been hectic trying to juggle everything.
After my coffee, (it turned out soooo good today, you know days like those), I'm heading off to letter up a 1 ton truck, should take me most of the day I presume. After that, cut for two firetrucks due this week however I'm pushing it to next week. Postponed my dentist appt, got better things to do. LOL!
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.---Sitting Bull
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Just checking in on this post and grabbing some lunch. It's a good day here. Could step it up a notch in the way of fabrication, but getting stuff done non the less.
I'm in the midst of my usual juggling act.
I met with my install contractor this morning about afew jobs we have in the works. Obtained from him an engineer drawing for a custom 2'x8' sign I'll be pulling the permit for tomorrow. We also discussed the metal mounting design for it. While he was here I produced a layout and quote for him on a 7'x7' D/F illuminated sign. He gave me the "go-ahead" on it, so the vinyl cutting for that will commence tomorrow when the material comes in. I finished applying a logo on a construction permit box and also dealt with a mess of phone calls. Last week I got the final approval for a logo I design, along with an entire identity package. (biz cards, letterhead, envelope, price tags and shopping bags) That job goes to print today, so I await the call to go down and give it a press check first.
While out on that run, I'll shoot over and do a colour check on a building to establish the background colour tones for it. I'll be doing a sign system for them ... 2) 8'x12' signs and 2)4'x8's. Also on that run I'll swing by another apartment complex that called today wanting 45 address signs. Want to see what I'm to be matching there before giving a price. Luckily these two places are in neighbouring locations.
In the meantime I've got some proposals to write today for a couple jobs. One being 2 - 5'x10' sandblasted HDU signs for a travel agency for which my sketch has been approved already. The other being an additional custom wood sign for a French Restaurant, ... a dupe of one I did last year for them, to be put in a secondary location. If I can fit it in timewise today, I'll do some sketches of a few jobs pending, layouts for another identity pkg, and also fiddle with a logo design I need to get started on.
Amy, we are in a cold front here! Looks gloomy too, but no rain yet. Had some downpours the last two days tho.
As far as how I'm feeling today. Abit overwhelmed, ... relieved to be busy, ... energetic and happy about the creative levels in shop right now. I've got that familiar "trying to stay afloat" feeling, but I'm sparked by some of what I've been able to accomplish lately. Hope I can keep up the momentum!
Great to see what some of you are up to, and your feelings about the work. Thanks for the peek into your day. Nettie
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hahahahaaaa... I just finished that humongously wordy reply to Donna ... and there is Bobby's baby face!
TOO funny! I love it!
Thanks for the smile!
------------------ "When Love and Skill Work Together ... Expect a Masterpiece"
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so far this morning i have lettered two truck doors/vynall. weeded a whole bunch of sub copy for an upcoming truck lettering job, made a paper pattern, helped my daughter katie(spring break) with a painting she is working on.
this afternoon it is full attention to a pretty involved web site i am working on. (making rollovers, formatting pages, building a directory, etc.
later on i may go det a grainbelt and call bubba meyer up on the phone then.
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I'm working on a second dimensional sign for the tavern that caused me so much grief when their interior decorator 'distressed and aged' the first sign to what I consider a monochromatic mess. I just don't get it! They say they're getting nothing but compliments on it but then they are influential business people with plenty of brown-nosers. I'm going to have Cal Trauter add his touch to this sign and hopefully the tavern owners will appreciate a real professional job and get us to repaint the monstrosity already up. They've also ordered several more signs which will keep me going through next week.
Happy Signing.....Marty
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ahhh, today, I want to go home! doing quotes and sketches on jobs that people are probably too cheap to actually do. The roof at the shop is leaking, the bay door is stuck open (waiting for the garage door people 4 hrs now) the new computer just got returned for putting the wrong operating system on it and the good ole'4B is skipping cuts! So I would say today is a bad day I am just trying to keep the shop running. Hopefully I will work tomarrow. Thanks for letting me vent! Raychel Lexington signs
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Weeeellll this is a fun post! This morning (6:00) I went out and installed some banners, drop off some digital prints, made a couple of sales calls, and lettered a small truck. Got back to the shop and am printing off some large prints, working on a couple of sandblasted signs. Still have to get some bids out and a few designs to do. If I ever get some spare time I will redo my web site, finally letter my truck and redo my van with a partial wrap. OK Im dreaming but theres always tomorrow!
------------------ Brian Stoddard Expressions Signs A few puddles east of Seattle
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Here today we working a 5'x10 and a 4'x8' plywood sign to do for a new java hut, then we gotta get going on (4) 4'x4' and (3) 3'x7' banners for one of the local t.v. stations. Once those are done I have to get a couple of screens ready for 200 2 color constuction site signs that I promised the guy by Friday (I think I may be late on these!), then on my way home I have to stop by the local Peterbilt dealer and letter a semi for a customer, the job goes quick, but boy do I hate working in the shop at the truck dealers. It seems like they are always crash banging around me which is a major distraction!
------------------ Greg Gulliford aka MetroDude Metro Signs and Banners 1403 N. Greene St. #1 Spokane, WA 99202 509-536-9452
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Usually I read the BB over my morning cup of coffee. But here it is 4:45 and I'm just getting to it.
Started the day with a dentist appointment. Then off to see a customer. He ordered 20 small sandblasted signs for a golf course. sweet! Dropped off a banner. Back to the shop, airbrushed swooshes for 3 auto repair signs. Realtor stopped in for me to reletter 20 real estate signs. Cut the vinyl for 2 pan faces to be installed tomorrow. The rest of the day was spent on sketches. Truck lettering for a tree service. Eight new signs for hospital buildings. Lay out the 20 sandblasted signs. Truck lettering for an excavator. Small beauty shop sign.
Almost all this came in after our temps finally broke the freezing mark.
Ahh spring!
------------------ Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 ICQ: 21604027 sherwood@up.net
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ok, its 9.30am thursday morning worked late last night paintin chucky just got to cut in the black (bg) and finish his hat (please excuse the crapy pic) fell asleep on the lounge chucky's got to be up a pole today building a consertinerd <-(dont ask me im just a signwriter) wall for sum bigger than usuall banners got to make 3 worm signs, one worm banner cute logo the worm ppl have shame they want 'cheap' could have had sum fun with it finish 4 cleerlite signs that have been routered but now need there pc60 prints done and... seems there is sumfin wrong with my digital camera setup to the puter....alll of a sudden, so i got to pull stuff apart n fix that sumtime today fairly crusie all in all let u know how it 'really' turns out later
regards gail
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WEELLL.. finishe off 9 3x6 banners for a local youth organization, lettered a 16ft cube van, finished 3d gator foam letters for an install tommorow, a 2x6 banner and 2 sidewalk talkers for trade show, dropped off some invoices and picked up some moola, lettered a dry erase board, did some sketches for some window lettering..answered calls.. now I gotta go home.. take the camera with me so on the way to work I can take a shot of a building for some sketches that I have to design 2 10ftx20ft billboards. Neil
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Well, I applied a second coat of paint to a 3x4 Express mail sign, cut vinyl for two 2x4 signs for daycare center, cut panels for 40"by44" sandblasted hdu sign, did three layouts for other jobs and installed a new printer. Also did two tshirt layouts for local screenprinter. Fun day!
------------------ John Deaton III Deaton Design 109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
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Today started off with a two color pinstripe down one side of a Cadillac, the rest of the day was spent lettering a sprint car and an extra wing. Tomorrow the Freightliner dealer has "some" trucks he wants done, this could be two or it might be six, ya never know
Oh yea, Greg, if working at the dealer bothers you, don't even think about going to a truck body shop. When they start riviting.............well let's say it's more than a little annoying. I guess I've been doing them waaaaaaaay too long, even that doesn't bother me anymore.
------------------ George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@ionictech.com
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
Things finally picking up around here...I built a 3'x12' redwood slab this morning while Pat knocked out 3 4'x15' banners and 3 4'x4' banners...then we went to the Rotary Luncheon (we did the signs)in exchange for Prime rib dinner for 6 (not a bad way to spend lunch)This afternoon I changed out some canopy sign panels at a strip center we maintain and finished the day priming a "signfoam" job I can't seem to get rid of....aside from that "NOT MUCH"
------------------ Monte Jumper SIGNLanguage/Norman.Okla.
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At the end of my day now, actually end of my week as I will be headed to Las Vegas for ISA show. Will leave in a few hours. Started the day off by refining some layouts for 2 bank branches wanting to promote Home Equity Loans using there windows. Then headed south about 35mi to do a Window Splash for a Car Dealership. It took about 5hrs of work with a little over an hour of total travel. And thats it until next week when I face a "full plate".
------------------ Rich Stebbing #945 RichSigns Rohnert Park CA
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Fun post to see what all our friends are up to in the same time period. Even though we sort of all do the same thing it shows the variety of jobs we encounter!
I got to spend the day at Giggle Ridge with my son-in-law, daughter and dear wife Janis. We are mostly our own client these days. And today was a fun one.
The sun was shining and it was mostly warm. We are building a bunch of new features and today was the first cement day this year. After a bunch of days living under my welding helmet it was a nice change. So we got to learn to apply the mud again (kinda rusty) and then we spent the afternoon carving it to the final shapes. We were making wood grained benches and small signs, The good thing is this year we are a very small crew (no stress) and no rush to things. We had some good chats as we worked together.
We also got to sit in the sun on some untimed coffee breaks and dream of the next big project we will undertake here at the Ridge. It is gonna be the best yet!
Hope everybody else had a chance to relax as well as do what they love!
-dan
------------------ Dan Sawatzky Sawatzky's Imagination Corporation Cultus Lake , British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.ca
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A Landscaper I've been trolling for over a year just ordered 6 4 x 8 alum. panels with 6 color airbrushed pictorals for his fleet. did those yesterday.
Today did 6 matching magnetics and the 6 24 x 24 rear panels for the stake beds.
Tomorrow I finish the two 7 x 12 landscape trailers. He ordered these monday, everything had to be finished by sat am 'cause he's delivering 9,000 bags of mulch for the Boy Scouts all over town and realized he wanted the advertising.
Thank God it rained. I was supposed to paint and install a sandblated sign, and letter a 22' furniture van this week.
I'm sleep deprived and could use a break, but theres nothing like a 5 figure deposit in 6 days. =)
------------------ Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Alexandria VA
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There was a design I did that I sent to a friend from this site. She added some of her touch to it. I added more. We play this way sometimes. Well, I sold the job and got to letter this dump truck. Just after finishing it, the table saw motor was heating up and the saw was binding, according to an employee. I spend several hours pulling the motor apart and re aligning everything to get the saw back to productive. It sure feels good to fix stuff rather than replace it.I've had this saw 25 years now. Then came the stream of visitors. The last one had lost his son to a drinking person in a vehicle. We spent hours sharing and crying and finding the real values in life and reasons to go on. That level of relating will outlast any paint made by today's standards.
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
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While you were all working on your projects yesterday ( March 21 ) I drove down to Atlanta Illinois to check about the progress of the "RT. 66" walldog meet.
Next drove over to Clinton Illinois to present the final layout for a double face indentification sign.
Then drove on down to Decatur Illinois to see how the cathedral decorating was coming ( my part is all finished, but I am keeping tabs on the progress for an update / follow up article for SBI magazine. Went to lunch with a "letterhead" in Decatur and he bought my lunch!
Got back home, 3:00 p.m., layed down in the easy chair and fell asleep. I guess I pretty much blew the whole day. Today I got to work double hard. Huge Glass mirror for a bar, a Banner for State Farm, 2 for sale by owner signs, order material for 2 new projects, letter store front windows, box truck and....I can see right now it ain't all gonna happen today!
------------------ Draper The Signmaker Bloomington Illinois USA Be Sure to Check Out My Next Article On "Sign Shop Photography" in the March Issue of Sign Builder Illustrated! 309-828-7110 drapersigns@hotmail.com Draper_Dave on mIRC chat
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Just got a big job to replace an acrylic face for Pharmasave for a customer. Corporate HQ now tells me of a specific vinyl colour to be used from IBM. 5 times the price of regular vinyl. My customer is going to have a fit. Probably going to cost him and extra $1000 bucks. No wonder small guys can't make it. You start off so deep in the hole the bank owns you for eternity.
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What an interesting slice of our collective activities that compose this industry. So many people doing so many different things simultaneously. Kind of like a "48 Hours in the Sign Business".
Today so far I met with a local women's softball coach to take orders for 50 PVC outfield fence signs. (Not our usual kind of work, but lucrative in this case - and good PR). I visited the P.O. and deposited a nice fat check for five carved signs we had shipped out a couple weeks ago across the country. This afternoon we're gluing up HDU for a 20' wide carved quarterboard. Then I'm going to knock off and take my family out to dinner to celebrate getting that check.
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Started this morning by finally finishing the glass gilding job I started two weeks ago(there were problems, and it turned into a marathon job, but it's finally done - ee-hah!) Then back to shop to coat out three 2x8's with maroon for a Bass shoe outlet store - these have to be done and installed tomorrow (Friday). Epoxied a half-inch lusterboard backing to a 2'x5' carved sign, with 8" bolts sticking out the back which will go through holes in 6" granite posts.
A customer stopped in to pick up a small repainted sign. I used hardener in the maroon on the Bass signs and one of them is dry enough to letter - four letters, 16" high, 1-shot imitation gold. It's 3pm and that should about do for my day.
------------------ "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson)
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One pick up truck (Yamaha dealer). 16 18x12 baked enamels followed by a pot of coffee. Quoted on 4 4x8 with lotsa script. No design challenges on the last two!
------------------ Mario G. Lafreniere aka Fergie.
jnsigns@onlink.net Chapleau, Ontario home of "The World's Largest Game Preserve" Spring is upon us,in Shania Country. Farewell Mosquito here comes the Snow! "Go figure" got me 30 cords of wood and haven't seen a snow flake yet!
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