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A good customer/friend stops by today....you know...the one that's still loyal for all his sign needs.Member that kinda client? He wants to dazzle his lady for her birthday.. She works at a communications company.... On Monday morning...a 4' x4' sign will be in place at the entrance to her workplace...also...he catered a special surprise lunch for his sweetie...and for about 40-50 co-workers...Cool huh?True love....even at 50 years old??Thats another story.. we worded the sign The ole grey mare.. Hay! She still has it!!! Happy birthday Brenda!!!! and ...a cartoon... a head of an ole nag!!!I voted for "characture titties " under a cartoon face..he said no... I searched all my clipart books...finally found one...toothie horses are soooo easy...fer cryin out loud!!! Now... try to git clips into my program!!!! I coulda looked at it ..n painted it n been sleepin by now!!!!! Consolation? My fingernails are clean these days.... And point of story...? Not sure... Life itself is a constant scene of change... how come it has to hit so close to home???? Ya know what? Nobody locked my sign kit or took away my brushes now...did they?
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Yea, that's the bad part about being a dinosaur Mike, ya realise the computer isn't always the fastest way of doing things I realised a while back that I DON'T have to use it if I do't want to. For the most part I find doing the type work I do the computer is the slower way more times than not. I never was one to do all Helvetica or "block" in one color. I'm not ashamed to admit I do a lot of "knock outs" on wreckers. Lots of scripts, casuals and plugs, give them corners if the company is something like A&B Case in point, I've got one guy I've been doing wreckers for for years, I recently did one in vinyl. It takes me 45 minutes to do one of his painted trucks layout and lettering five colors, shades, inlines etc. I simplified the job in vinyl and still spent more time on just the cutting and weeding ......next time he may get all helvetica in white...................nah
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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Yeah Michael....cool story. But it really is fun to get those fingernails all 'painty' sometimes!
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Mike, I just finished a job and felt the same way. A customer I have had for 15 years because "You still paint", that I talked into trying a vinyl job.
He was happy with the final result, but I couldn't help feeling "handcuffed" while looking at the letters I was applying.
MC
-------------------- Mike Clayton M C Grafix Custom Lettering New Jersey (again)
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Hey you guys...don't let the computer make you feel "handcuffed" because you are restricted to the fonts available instead of your hand brushed stuff!!
There are a few programs out there that are "font creators" and let you scan in samples of your own style and make computer ready True type fonts out of them. Here is one:
This might take a little time setting up, but once you get a handfull of your "hand done" stuff in there, you can feel like you are using "original" stuff, but knocking it out in vinyl.
Check out www.signdna.com........these are guys like you who have transformed their handwork into computer ready fonts...very neat stuff.
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI
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......next time he may get all helvetica in white...................nah
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