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Hello everyone; my former employer and friend for many years...Steve(the Mayor)Shortreed and host of this great website will be glad to see that I finally got around to posting my butt onto this site. Forgive me if I make any stupid mistakes, but this is all fairly new to me. I met Steve a number of years back when he caught sight of me airbrushing a mural onto a car hood at a local car show near his home town of Fergus, ON. I had been doing automotive artwork for a few years at that time but wanted to learn about the sign trade. As I stayed in touch with Steve and Barb, I later on became employed with them and was introduced to the letterhead atmosphere. Need I say more...the opportunity to work in the type of shop that they had at that time was more valuable than several years in college. Since those days I have logged over twenty years in the custom automotive paint trade with numerous awards and magazine features to my credit. I have had the pleasure of meeting some great people along the way and admire them all for their individual talents. In the fall of 1999 I chose to follow another interest and trained to acquire my commercial pilots licence for Helicopter. Recently my family( Linda and daughter Laura )and I have relocated from Midwestern ON to the beautiful area of North Bay, ON. Here I hope to continue to gain my initial experience in flying and am working to try and establish myself again in the painting and sign industry. Regardless of whether the flying goes anywhere for me or not, I know that I will always continue to paint...but sometimes you just need to try something different...just to see if you can do it!
Bevin Finlay 215 Mountainview Dr. Unit 1 North Bay, ON P1A 9R8 bevinfinlay@scsinternet.com
------------------ Bevin Finlay North Bay, Ontario Canada
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Welcome to Letterville Bevin! It's always a special thrill to see one of our longtime pals show up here at The Letterville BB.
Years ago, Bevin, along with Doug Downey, Pete & Marj Payne joined a bunch of other strangers at our shop here in Fergus, Ont. To our knowledge, this was the first Letterhead Meet in Canada. Many of the people at that first meet never attended another meet but look at the names that did.
I'm very proud of Bevin. He is one of the most talented airbrush artists I have ever met. I know how much it hurt to put his dream of supporting his family off his airbrush work on the back burner and pursue becoming a helicopter pilot. It takes real guts to make hard decisions. Bevin Findlay has that kind of courage.
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Welcome Bevin...I believe we met at Steve's last summer when Gail and Dave Beattie were there... If it was you running the airbrush (seems to me it was a beaver doing unmentionable things to...) I admire your talent!
Make yourself comfortable..this is a nice website to visit.
------------------ 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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Welcome to Letterville Bevin! We needed an airport in our little community. Hope you do really well at your new venture and ya know, you can always paint on the side
Karen
------------------ Karen Sartain 4030 J75 Drive Paonia, Co 81428
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." -Stephen Covey
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I know Shortreed flies everywhere without leaving his room. Can you set him up to fly those choppers on his computer too? Welcome to Letterville.
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
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I've met Bevin briefly a few times. He does absolutely incredible airbrush work - if you get a chance to see his portfolio or his work in magazines you're in for a real treat.
Anyway, glad to see you made it here Bevin! Welcome.
------------------ Bob Darnell London, Ontario, Canada
let me tell you people something... this guy can paint like nobody's business. i only hope that you all can see the bike he did in the brigitt bardot theme. you would swear that was real fur on that bike.
we had the pleasure of having bevin down for a night when he was delivering painted bike parts to the harley dealer near us. i only wish he and linda (and laura, too!) lived closer to us and now he has gone and moved even further away! guess it just makea a great excuse for a road trip!
welcome to letterville, findog!
have a great one!
------------------ Bruce Bowers DrCAS Signtech
"how great are His signs..." Daniel 4:3
i am a proud supporter of this website!
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