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i set up in the mustang car show..here this weekend....of all the questions...and requests...this one stumped me...ok...you know the 80's-90's mustangs with the ground effects on the rocker panels...they have MUSTANG or MUSTANG GT ....impressed into them....what i keep gettin asked for are the letters to go inside these....well i got the logo..but question is...if i measure the hieght and length of the impression...and set it to the logo ..will it cut it so each letter will fit in the indentation?....somebody must did one of these....
------------------ joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-944-5060 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND
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i have...consider this...ever watch a monkey try to ***k a football going down a hill..its about as much fun joe...that method works but is a major pain in the ass...get em a can of krylon and some masking tape much easier
------------------ Gavin Chachere aka Zeeman Miller Supply Co./Ozone Signs & Grafix New Orleans La. www.millersupply.net www.ozonegrafix.com
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Or better yet, use a brush and some One Shot. No masking involved. I can usually do a rear bumper insert in about 15 minutes and the side take a little longer cuase they're lower.
Lee
------------------ Lee 'Vance' Hulick New Carlisle, OH (near Dayton) lhulick@netzero.com http://vance.cjb.net
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Joe..The last time I did something like that I taped some tracing paper over the area and then used a regular squeegie to squeegie over carbon paper. That gave a very accurate impression of the lettering. Then, as Robert said. Just scan and manipulate your existing logo to fit the scan.
------------------ 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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Same here, I have hand painted em Joe, and the larger ones don't take long, but the smaller ones take a little longer. Never tried a vinyl insert. If you come up with something, let us know. Hmmmm. What Gavin said. What if you cut the logo, reverse weeded, applied and sprayed with krylon, etc. May work, don't know. ------------------ John Deaton III Deaton Design 109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
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lee.. i have painted them and other cars like a Z-24, that have them indented..but with paint you got static electricity....hold the brush an inch away from the plastic and the paint jumps on it from the brush....was sorta lookin for the easy way..cut em tape and hand em to the buyer...let him , clean, and fit the vinyl in there..imagine static will effect the vinyl also...
------------------ joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-944-5060 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND
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Joe.. I paint them and don't worry about the edges while painting... When the paint sets up,(I use HOK) I wrap a paper towel around a paint stir, soak it with some 3812 and remove the excess using the flat side of the stir.. Takes me about 30 minutes start to finish including clean-up and I charge around $60 bucks.. As long as the recessed letters have clean edges, I get a clean look. I usually have to clean up some of the edges with a lettering quill..
FWIW.. I asked a friend at a vinyl sign shop what they charge to letter a Mustang bumper and he said $25.00. I didn't ask if they install by the letter or whole word.
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Last year a woman came to me with her daughter's new red Mustang for her college grad. present from college. She wanted silver so I used:
one-shot silver size 2 or 3 grey squirrel quill and went to town! it was fun and easy.. 15 min. also for me plus sitting in the driveway to get down there. It must be a popular item! I think now that I will let the dealers know I offer this charged a dollar a minute. $15 and she brought it to me and picked up the paint which I gave her the rest. I only used a tiny bit, of course.
------------------ Deb Creative Signs
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We get a lot of request for the inserts also, I have tryed a few times to get the right size lettering but if you measure each letter each leg of the letters are a differnt width. I know there are a few people out there making them, but I'll be damned if I can get it to come out right. I hope you have better luck then i did. Terry
------------------ Terry Scott Family Graphics Deerfield Beach, Fl
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