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Great job Mark. It loaded very fast for me.
-------------------- "Don't change horses in midstream, unless you spot one with longer legs" bronzeo oti Jack Davis 1410 Main St Joplin, MO 64801 www.imagemakerart.com jack@imagemakerart.com Posts: 1549 | From: Joplin, MO | Registered: Mar 2000
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It didn't take that long to load. I'm working on a 28800 connection (as everyone on chat has heard many times, our phone lines are so old, they won't connect higher than 31200 on a good day) and didn't have a problem with loading.
I really like the faux finish.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa
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Mark, That was a great job putting the step by step together, easy to follow and the design had lots of different things that made it very interisting. About how many hours did you have in this project???
Keep up the great work!!!
Jim
-------------------- Jim & Chris Hetzler JC Hetz Studio 513 W 3rd St. Muscatine, IA 52761 563-263-2803 jhetzler@machlink.com www.jchetzstudio.com
-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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i'm a hard and fast oil base paint user(Sherwin Williams industrial enamal and Oneshot) but have considered using water base more when a customer requested it(to match excisting paint) and liked the drying time!
Used the stencils like you did but have always wondered about the lettering brushes.i see you used mack tell me more about that!
i noticed that you used intermidiate vinyl as a mask...i have had some experiances with the adheasive being to agressive and pealing the background(even with proper prep and sanding!) Avery makes a paint stencil that i've been using for some years that eliminated that problem for me...and its cheaper than the intermediate!
thanks for shareing the step by step!
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Chris Lovelady Vital Signs
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Mark, Looks great. Download was quick. I aggree with the earlier reply - Way to much fun. And people pay you for it! Enjoyed the step by step. Dave
-------------------- Dave Johnson Saltsburg, PA
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Thanks Mark. I picked up quite a few pointers.
-------------------- Brian Cornwell AutoMotivation Plymouth - MA - USA
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thanks everyone for your thoughtful comments. jim, in answer to your question, this job took roughly 18 to 20 hours.(i spent a lotta time "tweaking" the sign other production was going on during the different phases. the selling price on this sign was $1416.50
the client was so trilled with the design and wanted the sign finished to be installed by his building contractor before christmas that he threw in an extra hundred bucks! (that rarely happens )
you guys are right it is loads of fun and on top of that it buys groceries!
thanks again,
mark
(oh by the way, did anyone notice that the D&L was Dan Antonelli's "Nicole", without the convex? the ampersand came from signdna's ampersand font.)
The finished sign looks even better than the design you showed me a while back!!
Great work and thanks for sharing.
Any day I can learn something new is a great day!!
Your ever faithful student -dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!!
haahahahahaha, yea right Dan! you have forgotten more than i will ever know bubba!
when i start a project like this i always ask myself "How would Dan Sawatzky do this Job??, then i get really depressed thinking about it and end up doing it my way instead!" LOL
I feel this is what Letterville is all about. Sharing what we know and learning all we can. I just wish I had more to share with others, maybe some day!
Thanks again!
Terry
-------------------- Terry Whynott Walkerton, Ontario
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Very slick looking sign. How'z-bout a side step with your faux finish technique? Not trying to be greedy ... just looks so nice. Thanks for sharing
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Hi Mark, Great stuff. It's a great feeling to be able to take your skills, and make something useful for someone else. Especialy when you can take $100 worth of stuff and turn it into $1400. Was also wondering about that flourish on the bottom of the sign. Is it centered? or it just my browswer?
Keep up the great work Arklie
-------------------- Arklie Hooten Former SignPainter Elizabethton, TN
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Man, Great job Mark! All the tweaking you did really paid off. What a nice sign! You can tell when someone has really thought out everything on a job. The bevels and shading really make this job stand out. Thanks for showing the process of a great job. We need more of this type of post. MOre step by steps.
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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Great job Mark! Hoping others will follow your lead and document their next job. Letterville people include beginners to masters. Lettervillians need never assume their contribution isn't needed. Thanks again Mark. This is really what it is all about.
-------------------- Barb Shortreed 144 Hill St. E. Fergus, Ontario Posts: 2380 | From: Fergus, Ont. | Registered: Sep 2000
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Well Professor Mark, you did a "Fair" job teching us! That was a treat, thanks for sharing with us. I know I'm gonna benefit from the effort. Can't wait to try it.
-------------------- Kathy Joiner River Road Graphics 41628 River Road Ponchatoula, La.70454
Old enough to know better...Too young to resist. Posts: 1891 | From: Ponchatoula, LA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Truly a first class job, but the highlites and shadows put the finishing touch on to make it a cut above the best.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Your step by step is running through the printer as I type. I use a lot of acrylic paint already, but there are a lot of things in there I want to try.
-------------------- Don Hulsey Strokes by DON signs Utica, KY 270-275-9552 sbdsigns@aol.com
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Thanks, Mark. Great looking sign. If you could let us know what brand of paints and vinyl you used, it would be appreciated. Also, ditto on the side-step for the faux marble panel. You is da man. Also, how long did you wait before you applied the vinyl mask?
-------------------- Mike"Spud"Kelly zipperhead design Westminster, MA Posts: 367 | From: Westminster, MA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Now that's a good-looking sign. Five bucks says you'll be seeing variations of it all over the place now. (I'm certainly planning on plagiarizing it) Thanks, Mark. You da man!
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4117 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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once again, thanks everyone for the favorable comments on my first step by step. when i get a little time i will add more details on the step by step such as tools used and how i created the marble oval.
also i plan to go into detail about the design process and the software used to arrive at this design.
thanks again, it sure makes an old sign painter feel good to hear such praise from his peers.
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