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I haven't seen this dvd,so I can't comment on the content/quality,but,he does have good reputation for quality work.

"Learn how to paint signs" by Wayne Tamswell. ISBN No:978-0-9562463-0-1
It's published in England,by the author,and covers all you need to know about signwriting.

Being fairly new to this sign lettering game,I need some advice regarding which paint is,in your opinion,as professional signwriters/pinstripers,the best. What do you use? I'm using 1shot,but I'm far from impressed with the coverage of some colours,especially the reds and yellows.I'm thinking of get...

The engraved/painted brasswork would just arrive on a truck,all ready to install! Whether the paint was fired,or not,I have no idea. I suspect not.Shopfitting always meant working to impossible deadlines,(I wish I had a fiver for every ghoster that I did)we never had the time to even guess how a par...

The engraved/painted brasswork would just arrive on a truck,all ready to install! Whether the paint was fired,or not,I have no idea. I suspect not.Shopfitting always meant working to impossible deadlines,(I wish I had a fiver for every ghoster that I did)we never had the time to even guess how a par...

DAVE SMITH wrote: Also some nice embossed brass skirting signs.
Dave

Sorry to be pedantic,but,as someone who spent 30 odd years in the Shopfitting game,the correct name for the upstand,the bit that you refer to as "skirting",in a shopfront,is, in fact,called a stall riser.
Ted Cooper

DAVE SMITH wrote: Also some nice embossed brass skirting signs.
Dave

Sorry to be pedantic,but,as someone who spent 30 odd years in the Shopfitting game,the correct name for the upstand,the bit that you refer to as "skirting",in a shopfront,is, in fact,called a stall riser.
Ted Cooper

Thanks for the words of encouragement,folks. At the moment,I only have 3 proper lettering brushes,a 1/2"Mack greyhound(grey squirrell) ,1/8"Mack 1962(kolinsky)and a OO Mack 189(grey). The 189 is a round,chisel end,which I don't,yet anyhow,seem to be able to get on with. I find both Macks,b...

Hello everyone. Let me first say that I am not a signwriter. Oh,I always wanted to be one,even before I left school back in '65,but,I was offered a 5 year apprenticeship(remember those?) to become a Carpenter and Joiner,though my wanting to learn signwriting has never left me,in fact,over the years,...