OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Dan Sawatzky on February 05, 2002 I've found that over the years our business has changed a great deal. I believe in our case its not because of technical changes as much as growth in skills and changes of interests. My own health concerns also played a lot in our choices l...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Dan Sawatzky on February 06, 2002 I've been flipping through my back issues of SignCraft and AMAL lately. January traditionally is a time of year I spend recharging my creative batteries every year. I also try and experiment with some new techniques and materials too. The h...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Dan Sawatzky on February 13, 2002 I'm still coming down from the fabulous meet at Rick Glawson's this past weekend. As many of you know, the shop is wall to wall eye candy and the hospitality extended was even better than that! I got to try out some gilding (I know it shoul...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Carol on February 15, 2002 How many inches from the floor to the bottom of your easel? Just curious. Mike Jackson Hi Carol, I measured ours today and the bottom is 28" off the floor. Since Darla uses it much more than me, it seems to fit. The bottom is a little low for...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on February 26, 2002 Other than being distantly related to the fact signs are a form of advertising, this is basically an off topic post.... I just saw Sarah Hughes on TV holding up a new box of Wheaties with her picture on the front. I think the sub-line on th...

OLD FORUM POSTS Hi everyone, I have a couple of old books and magazines with ink pen scribble marks in them. A long time ago, a guy gave me a demonstration of how the writing on a check could be removed with some solution (he was trying to sell one of the Paymaster machines that punch the numbers in...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on March 04, 2002 I was watching a program on the Discovery Channel a couple of days ago on the new age of Tatoo Parlors. This one showed a young girl going into a parlor in what looked like Los Angeles. When the tatoo artist asked what kind of image she wanted...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Cam Bortz on March 07, 2002 In the past month I've had two failures with signs made of HDU, on of them repairable, the other not. In the first case, I'd made a SF carved sign and backed it up with MDO. We've done this lots of times, using West System as the adhesive, but in...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Carol on March 13, 2002 http://www.pioneer.net/~cjchapel/TW2web.JPG I hosted a small local letterhead meet last weekend. I'll try to share one of the projects. It's an 8 x 12' mural. We did it on dibond with acrylic. I'll let you know how it holds up outdoors. So far it's s...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Carol on March 15, 2002 Mike's post on another thread caused me to bring this up. The new glass that is being manufactured is suppose to have polyesters or something that will repell dirt, making windows that need cleaning less often. However, I suspect that real gold leaf ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on March 16, 2002 http://www.goldenstudios.com/graphics/fishsigns.jpg Here are a few signs we did for Christmas friends last year as gifts. (fishing buddies) We make the backgrounds and frames out of scraps I pick up during the year, or leftovers from signs. I ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Dan Sawatzky on March 16, 2002 I was in the city this past week... What I saw in signs was almost all produced by machines. I'm sure there were people typing in the necessary information and even handling the materials, but the work sure wasn't done by hand. I was tempted t...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Dan Sawatzky on March 16, 2002 I love my computer. And a lot of my design work is produced there. The difference is that I do the work freehand on the computer for the most part. I like to sketch my designs on old fashioned paper. I always keep a hard bound sketchbook with ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Rick Sacks on March 19, 2002 When painting blended backgrounds with a cutter I often think I need to add some boiled oil or Smiths Cream to keep the edge wet long enough to blend. This causes the paint film to seem thick and clunky and greatly reduces the dry and cure times...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on March 19, 2002 Dave Correll did two nice 4 x 8 site signs as step by steps in SC this month (page 48). (Note Post Date Above)I have a few questions for the readers here about his project. He says he only used 1 quart of primer and 1.5 quarts of enamel on the...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Patty Callahan on March 20, 2002 Got a call from a client with 3yr old signs. She claimed they were weathering but upon inspection the edges were chewed away all around the top and sides of the sign. I repaired the signs using epoxy putty and repainted to match, then placed...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on March 20, 2002 Hello, Back in Oklahoma, I hired a woodcarver to work at the shop. I sold a job which had four identical thoroughbred race horses which were cut out of redwood and applied to the raised area of the sandblasted signs. We had pretty good artwork...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Carol on March 27, 2002 A friend just sent me a copy of "Snapper", a collection of stories of sign painters. It was put out by John Hodgins last year. I hadn't seen it before. His email addy is listed as: jhodgins@2ki,net. I'll bet that is 'spose to be .net. There...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Cam Bortz on March 31, 2002 Last spring Bob Rochon and myself painted a large graphic on the field at Fenway Park in Boston (Signs of the Times, Nov. 2001), and we were called back to do it again this year. The major difference was that we were contracted directly by the Re...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 07, 2002 Hello, We just returned from a week long Spring Break with the kids. Leaving here with a lot of snow on the ground, it was nice to get into some warm weather. We spent two nights in Las Vegas and stayed at Circus Circus. It has been quite a wh...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Cam Bortz on April 11, 2002 Lately I've been dancing with the squirrels a fair bit (you know, the grey ones in the kit); some fancy stuff, but a lot of of good-old ordinary pounce pattern lettering. Almost all my patterns are computer generated, and I have my favorites styl...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Danny Baronian on April 23, 2002 What type of adhesives are you using in your work? Best - worst, what to keep away from? Wood to wood, Metal to metal, HDU, PVC, or any combination thereof. D. Bernhardt teriffic topic and very dear to my heart.....i have to qualify all that...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 23, 2002 http://www.goldenstudios.com/temp/stand.jpg Here's a photo of Danny Barronian's glass stand, used by some of the people at this year's conclave. It adjusts from 4" wide to 40" wide. You can work on one side of a piece of glass and th...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Becka on April 23, 2002 Hi - Not sure if any of you can help me, but I am looking for a machine (not a clue what they are called) that will cut stencils of lettering and graphics that I have created on my computer and cut them on .004 Mylar for wood signs that I make and ot...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on May 02, 2002 I guess I heard about the One Shot people buying out Chromatic, but never paid that much attention to it. We started using it when Steve Burman started up and used it pretty much all along. I tried ordering some quarts of lettering enamel today ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by vance galliher on April 29, 2002 i can't believe the learning curves i seem to have to endure each time i try a better way of making signs !!......this is my first experience with dibond....i'm giving up using mdo as a substrate,too much prep and not good for the longevity ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Carol on May 06, 2002 Vance - Are we gonna get an update on your dibond saga? I'm curious. Vance Galliher dibond update.....at my last post i had rolled the perfect black finish on side one. the day after that i rolled side two, turned a fan on to move the air around, and a...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by D.Bernhardt on May 08, 2002 well my hat is off to all here and just needed to say how much i enjoyed the di-bond and adhesive subjects. am sorry to say good-bye to chromatic as they did give us some choice, but up here in the "boonies" i've pretty much been using ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Billy Bob on May 09, 2002 If anyone has ever applied epoxy to dimensional letters to get a rounded top surface, what is the best epoxy to use? I'd like to use this effect on a Letterhead project. Thanks. Vance Galliher timely post billy bob.....less than an hour ago, i just...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Carol on May 10, 2002 I heard that Doc Welty was going to get married today. Just thought I'd pass the gossip on. Congratulations Doc! Bob I thought he already was married? Carol See? That's the way gossip is. :-) Rick Sacks I got a note from Doc verifying the event. If thi...