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Since my work differs from yours, I've been known to remove complete panels on vehicles whether it be a bug or a flaw. Last week as I was finishing up on a custom job, I removed and replaced the owners name on the door about fifteen times til it was to my liking. Even at dealerships I need everything to be as perfect as it could be done.
I go completely balistic when someone says, " let it go, you can't see both sides at once "
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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Most of the time I will fix the problem. I drive myself nuts. But.....there is an exception. When the customer has been driving me even more nuts than I drive myself...then I will let it slide.
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I think it depends on the job. Fleet graphics over "fleet paint jobs" with the runs and sags you letter over dont require the same level of perfection as a dimensional piece for a lobby wall for example. I constantly have to remind myself when to call it done. By the way, when the paint is dry and you pop the fly off, you can use his legs for braille...
[ March 07, 2002, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: Brian ]
-------------------- Brian Stoddard Northwest Wholesale Signs
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Tony, I know what you mean. As a custom painter for years, I don't beleive there was ever a finished job that didn't have some little miniscule tid bit somewhere, I learned to except that "perfect does not exist on this planet".
When you do get a bug,etc., in the paint, tear off a 3" piece of 3/4" tape, make a loop(sticky side out) and touch it to the bug, this will lift it out and allow the paint to re-flow while still wet !!
Roger
-------------------- Roger Bailey Rapid Tac Incorporated 186 Combs Dr. Merlin Oregon 97532 Posts: 3020 | From: Merlin Oregon | Registered: Dec 1998
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Save your bugs and ship them (collect) to Roger...they are the secret ingredient in Rapid Tac. To minimize Roger's freight costs, do not ship less than one pound at a time.
-------------------- Jon Aston MARKETING PARTNERS "Strategy, Marketing and Business Development" Tel 705-719-9209 Posts: 1724 | From: Barrie, ON, CANADA | Registered: Sep 2000
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Around Christmas I had a young lady ask if I would Airbrush a pet Cat on a 15"x20" banbridge board, for her mother inlaw.
I did it and it turned out very nice. Sold it to her to give away as the present.
After X-Mas I saw her again and ask if the person getting it, Liked it? She said yes but there was a couple of hairs in the artwork... Well I have one Cat that will not leave my side so I thought to myself and came up with.
"I had to pluck some of my cats fur out and paste it to the board to see if my work was going to be realistic enough."
She laughed and so did I and all ended well.
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Letting Your Imagination Run Wild! Posts: 4327 | From: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada | Registered: Jan 2000
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After I've posted something on the BB I almost always discover a better way to say what I mean and/or a spelling mistake or two. Consequently, most of my posts have that annoying [edited by Jon Aston...] footer on them.
-------------------- Jon Aston MARKETING PARTNERS "Strategy, Marketing and Business Development" Tel 705-719-9209 Posts: 1724 | From: Barrie, ON, CANADA | Registered: Sep 2000
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Ooooh, big shiny red button. I don't get to actually work on any of the signs in the shop where I am employed, I mostly just sit and design. The most horrible thing is to walk through the "detail shop" and see that the workers there have boogered up one of my layouts. It's usualy not anything to bad, just stuff that drives me nuts. Like the wrong color pin-line, or a border painted to thin (or thick.
On the lighter side, I recently recieved a piece of clear Rowmark engraving stock that had a spider embeded in it. Think bug in amber, like in Jurassic Park!
-------------------- Jon Androsky Posts: 438 | From: Williamsport, PA | Registered: Mar 2002
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By nature I’m a perfectionist……..for the longest time I thought that was a good trait. However, it’s not, its my own worst enemy………it can bog me down. It will continue to remind me that it is never good enough, if I let it.…………its vanity.
Perfectionism kills creativity.
Today I strive for excellence………not perfection.
-------------------- John Martin Robson Pendragon Signs & Graphics Yellowknife,NT,Canada
if it's not one thing.....it's two things Posts: 261 | From: Yellowknife, NT, Canada | Registered: Aug 2000
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It bugs me that I have paint on my FLY! And these are my good pants, too.
There is a legendary custom car painter out here named Larry Watson. His paint jobs are unbelievably beautiful, but his trademark is he always puts a flaw in it somewhere, and in a conspicuous place, too. He picks up some trash off the floor and grinds it into the wet paint just as he's finishing up - says "There's no such thing as a 'perfect' job." --- so he controls the flaw.
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I actually had my co-worker here phone a customer at one time and begging him to finally come and pick up his sign, because I couldn't walk by it without running for some paint and correcting something in the artwork. He likes to tell this story to anybody who asks how picky I am...
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Perfectionism can be quite destructive at times, also time consuming. I know from experience, my friends give me heaps about it. Not only with work but life in general; my kids think I'm nuts because I know if someone has moved an ornament from its position etc. I'd hate to count how many times I have changed colour or some detail because it wasn't quite right to 'ME'.I find it very hard to let it go. Great tip on the fly removal!
-------------------- Linda Seymour Bundaberg, Q.L.D Australia
"DARE!" Signage of Distinction Bundaberg freeloner2001@dingoblue.net.au Posts: 94 | From: Q.L.D Australia | Registered: Jan 2001
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You should get up close to one of the nose arts on the jets. Runs, hairs, bugs, I don't sweat it. The viewpoint is over 20 ft away and 20 ft in the air. I think thats one of the reasons I like doin 'em.
Close up vehicle graphics are a different story...
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