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these next shots were from a job my wife catherine really liked. I have to say that I have learned through this site and friendships with fellow signwriters. The 3 details the client wanted was a flower, their name and their phone number. since the fascia was short but tall it took some time to come to something I was happy with. the client wasn't expecting the scroll in 3D or the Heart ( I dremelled out the flower, first time doing that! )
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Then it progressed to some glass work, white goldleaf, deep gold and copper leaf.
then they needed to cover up the back of the glass with some bronze mirrors. enter chipped, embossed and gilding done to the sandblasted pattern on the back of the bronze mirrors. I got a lot of Help from Dave Smith even if he doesn't think so!
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-------------------- Miles Cullinane, Cork, Ireland.
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Thanks Shane, It is in a great location from a traffic point of view and has already got me a similar job on a beautiful building.
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Vance, the background is factory finished black gloss DiBond with the letters being a foamex like product 3/4 inch thick routed and sprayed, I gilded them rather than getting my supplier to do them as I find it is a pleasure working with gold. I ran a circular saw through the back of the DiBond to half it's depth and then folded the edges back, so the sign panels don't end at the edge of the Fascia but wrap around it by about 6". you can see that in the close up shot.
the flower is dremelled out of a piece of 2" signfoam which I got from Dave Smith about 10 years ago as a sample of what the stuff is like.
The client has tube lighting tucked up under the moulding you see at the top of the sign and It is very effective even though I would have thought that lighting prismatic lettering from that angle would be a bad thing, it is the opposite.
I see this sign nearly every second day and I really enjoy it as it makes me think of the various things I have learned through things like this board, meets or one to one talks, books about signs. basically everything I have learned from others but those others were people who were willing to share their knowledge even keen to share as they knew what that knowledge had done to improve their work and wanted the pleasure of seeing it happen for someone else.
the scroll is 3mm foamex that was cut out in an arc and then bend using a heat gun and some heavy gloves for protection. learned that at a glass gilding course in Torquay.(you know who you are! )
I fixed all the elements onto the DiBond through the back so there are no fixings visible.
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-------------------- Miles Cullinane, Cork, Ireland.
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Very nice work, Miles. thoughtful, concise and neat. Classy, too. Gold is a tough thing to sell these days.
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Very nice Miles, they all fit there locations perfectly.
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Miles, lovely work as always. I'm impressed with how the fascia signs are part of the building itself, rather than a sign panel just hung onto the existing exterior wall. In my town we wouldn't get a permit for a sign like the flower shop, it would be considered "too big" according to arbitrary regulations that limit the area of a sign to one square foot per linear foot of street frontage. Yet by any reasonable aesthetic standard, it fits and is perfectly appropriate.
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