I like that Font but I CANNOT TELL ANYONE WHERE I GOT IT, because I will be sent to the corner time out chair...........right Nettie? hahaha thank you Barry!
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Well, aside from the reversed "W" this Canuk sees a depiction of "Old Glory" missing about 2 stripes ( isn't there supposed to be 13? ) and the stars seem to also be minus more than a few ( again aren't there supposed to be 50 ? )
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Damn these sensitive Canadians...Good eye Ken, the flag was cropped to make it fit better, yeah, there are only 30 some stars and maybe a few stripes missing, but I heard on my visit to DC that a few states were gonna be dropped from the Union anyway...Iowa, Montana, Maine, they just aren't pulling their weight anymore....
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Mike, do you ever wonder how many non-sign writers would spot something like that? Right or wrong, I know it's only the thought of other writers seeing it that bothers me. I love the boat graphics in your other post, my favourite colours and beautiful lettering.
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Arthur, there's a church in Toowoomba, with every possible cut out letter that could be back to front, stuck up that way- I'll post a pic someday. (ie U, V, W, A,) It's been like that for decades & I still shudder each time I see it!
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Ian, anything like this one? Back in February, I was asked for a quote to rewrite this sign exactly as it was before weathering. I made a number of suggestions on how it might be improved!!
Haven't heard back.
Okay, he may have got the 'M's and 'A's right but the X, Y and V are a bit of a surprise! Maybe he thought it would add character?
I was working in Goring-on-Thames last week and, from a very oblique angle, spotted what looked like a lovely old fashioned, hand written shop fascia on a rickety old Dickensian shop front. Thought I'd take a picture for the BB but as I drew nearer it became obvious it suffered from reversed UVWA syndrome. What a shame!
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I'm Impressed - hey I stand up & salute to that flag - glad Shawn's home safe - nice touch - I didn't notice the up-side down letter till it was mentioned - again,, Nice flag -
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-well they got the A the right way round, but this layout is repeated on two sides of the church which fronts a corner of a main street in Toowoomba.
Edited to add that going by their expertise, they might even have the O & I back to front too, but at 55 km/h driving past, I couldn't tell whether the countersunk screwholes were on the wrong side or not! One of the kids snapped the pic a few months ago when we drove past.
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Maybe it was a new venture for the chap that could't paint a straight line till he'd had a drink. Maybe a committee erected it. Maybe they tried to get all the holes aligned with the mortar rather than brick – stranger things have happened.
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I'm waiting on Mike's explanation of how the W got reversed.
You guys aren't alone. This sort of thing drives me nuts. Many years ago, a signpainter in a neighboring town used to reverse all his thick and thins. His reasoning, "it doesn't matter as long as you do them all the same"
I gave him a Speedball book.
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Easy to see, Mike, same as the backwards V i painted on the Veterans Banner for ya at Mazeppa! And in the parade, Sir Jordan spotted it and commented...i hung my head in shame.
12 years ago, i painted an uppercase M with only ONE thick stroke in it. Still there, 5' tall!
Computers don't make these kinds of errors, do they???
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hahaha Thanks guys, Dan, I have been to Maine to saty with John Novicki and you Mainers ARE pulling your weight, the Black Bears are a strong Hockey Club too! John Lennig..every Letterhead Meet needs a wonderful painter like you,( and dancer!) Wayne, get the Tea and Crumpets ready, I'll be seeing you in Scotland..be ready to PAINT!
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Mike, I don't mean to hijack this thread, or your cuppa, but I've just noticed that the S is upside down on that church sign, too...
And Arthur, I learned pretty quickly a while ago that it's usually easier to drill a hole in the brick itself, than in the mortar...unless you have lots of time!
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no problem Ian...I posted this banner to show the mistake and get a chuckle out of it...thanks for posting your picture too! That's what this is all about!
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Ian, then I guess you've never met a Wainwright's Wirecut brick. One masonary bit per hole! They are a nightmare but at least they taught me never to quote for installations. I'm told Staffordshire Blues are even worse but I've never had to drill one.
Good song title though: "I got dem ol' Staffordshire Blues". "Woke up dis mornin and couldn't get through dem hard as diamond Staffordshire Blues".
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Arthur- They sound worse than Midhurst Blue bricks ( what the hell do they put in those)!-2 masonary drills per hole-and cut the plugs in half...I never drill the fixing holes in the signs until AFTER i arrive on site with those jobs.
Hey Mike- I'm sure we can do a little better than Tea and Crumpets- This is BONNIE scotland ya know-
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Wayne, they were forged from blue diamond dust, fired at very the very centre of the earth's core by the Brick Elves of Midhurst. It was decreed, by their elders, that the tribe of DeWalts were getting too big for their boots and should be humbled.
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Arthur- You been eating cheese before bed again?
Midhurst Elves might not be too far from the truth thou- I watched these bricks being made as a kid at primary school- BY HAND!! ( some 20 odd years ago )- and I was facinated- all the tools and the speed these guys worked at ( they were all on piece time) Then the BIG firey kilns- it was like another world..all now sadly gone ( like most of Britains manufacturing industries- But hey- we can still turn out a sign or two eh?)
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thanks to glenn Taylor for the picture help I checked my list, stopped and got a Cup o Tea on my way to letter this huge van yesterday! Almost all hand lettered!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
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yeah kewl shirt mike. I've seen em on the new inventers show but didnt know they were out so early. these laser level signpainter shirts are gunna sell like hot cakes! No more crooked signs. hehehehe
cheers! rod
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Staffordshire Blues: The best I could do today I'm afraid. A magnificent Great Western Railway skew-bridge. The radiused specials and corbelled strings are pure Staffs but the facings are a mixture. It's more likely that it was done for visual rather than financial relief, as the GWR were a proud and rich company.
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