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Original Dead Men

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Aaron Taylor
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Very awesome! Thanks Larry I downloaded the PDF and it was very blurry. What a great fine.
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Post by Kim Ross »

Thanks for putting this together Larry..these are great!!
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Post by Larry White »

Anyone feel like vectorizing that one on page 1 ?...

before I dam well do it myself!
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Post by Bill DeBekker »

partially done..
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...check your email Mr. White.

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Post by Bill DeBekker »

Dang Danny share the wealth.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.. :shock:
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Post by Larry White »

I wouldn't trust no words, written down on some forum...

especially from no Hazelwood....you're just as likely to

end up with a whole lotta nothin' !


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... just yanking Mr. Blake's chain, as habit goes.

A file was sent, though of little use, and possibly one he can't even open. Thus the reason for the file, as too often I'm the opener of foreign files.

And after taking a call from one Town of Machine today, the town mayor was having trouble gettin his mail....

To quote Mr. Blake: I wouldn't trust no words, written down on some forum....you're just as likely to

end up with a whole lotta nothin' !
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Larry White
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Re: Original Dead Men

Post by Larry White »

Got this little ditty framed up and ready for hanging.
This was a little side project I whipped together for
those boys at the Coon Hunt.

Image

If ya want to make one, here's the vector file:

DWCigars Small Sign Project

I also designed up this larger version,
I've got it in process...

Image

If ya wanta make one these, be my guest...

DWCigars Large Sign Project

Keep your lovin' brother happy.....

-Aho!



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I was shooting Buffalo out of a window in my house, when a friend came round wearing a clown suit he got in Cleveland ( a seaside resort near Bristol U.K.)

He had with him a prtable Media drive so we plugged it into my TV and I found there was a film called
Dead Man. starring a Mr W. Blake and Nobody. Oh and Iggy Pop who is famous in the UK for sellin Insurance !

I dun watched the film, had my eyes opened so I came round here to say


AHO
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Post by Larry White »

When there's no work to do....might as well play.

I always was self-entertaining and I remain true to form.
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Yet another building here in the Town of Machine....



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Nice
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At this rate Hollywood will be calling you Larry to use this place. great job as usual.
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Post by Tony Segale »

there he goes again...

buildin all those buildins so nobody know how scared he is.
and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear.
http://www.tonysegale.com
http://www.tonysegale.wordpress.com
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Post by Larry White »

...Fear's a funny thing Jenco, can make a man strange
for the rest of his days....
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Russ,
I tried to open our files in corel 13 also tried to import but won't open.
Help Bill
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Post by Russ McMullin »

Bill, I saved the files again as lower versions of PDF. I also included Illustrator files saved down to version 10. Hopefully you can open them now.

Russ
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Thanks Russ they worked fine Bill.
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Post by Larry White »

Thanks Russ!

Keep 'em comin'...

Funny....kinda took you for a scratcher......

-WB
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Post by Russ McMullin »

Sometimes I get the urge to scratch. Sometimes I get the urge to...vector. I saw your wish list and prepared to do a little vectorin' of my own.

This one has a total of six designs - the three that I already posted, and three more. One of these days I hope to make it back to the town of Machine and I'll need a project to work on.

http://www.mcmullincreative.com/glass-traces.pdf
http://www.mcmullincreative.com/glass-traces.ai

Russ
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Post by Larry White »

Looks like we got our work cut out for us there!

You do that cousin, you get right on out here...welcome anytime...

anyone else for that matter...

You keep on as you are, you'll have that catalog vectored up soon enough.

Congrats on your new baby!

Aho!

-WB
Tony Segale
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Post by Tony Segale »

Perhaps some copy for my next mailer...


Ladies and gentleman, I traveled over jist about half our state to get here this evenin'.
I couldn't get away sooner, because my new gild was a-dryin' at Lobos River, and I
had to see it thru. That gild is now brilliantly dazzlin more gild jobs soon, and payin' me
an income of five thousand dollars a week. I got two others gildin',
and I got sixteen to produce at Antelope. So, ladies and gentleman, if I say I'm a gold man,
you got to agree.
You got a great chance here, ladies and gentleman; but bear in mind, you can lose it all
if you ain't careful. Out of all the fellers that beg you for a chance to gild your glass,
maybe one in twenty will be gold men; the rest will be vinyl slappers, fellas tryin' to
get between you and the gold men, to get some of the benefits that by rights come to you.
Even if you find one that has composition leaf, and means to gild, he'll maybe know nothin'
about gildin', and have to hire out the job on contract-- and then your dependin' on a contractor
that's tryin' to rush the job through, so as to get to another contract just as quick as he can.
But, ladies and gentleman, I do my own gildin', and the gilders that work for me are gilders I know.
I make it my business to be there and see to their gild. I don't lose my tips in the size and spend
months re-orderin'; I don't dirty the size and let a gild go cloudy and ruin the whole purchase.
And, let me tell you, I'm fixed right now like no other man or company in this field. Because my
Lobos River gild has just come in, I got a pack of gold all ready to put to glass. I can load my kit in the truck,
and be there in an hour. I've got business connections, so I can get the screens for the backup,...
such things go by friendship, in a rush like this. That's why I can guarantee to start gildin',
and put the gold back to work. I assure you whatever the others promise to do,
when it comes to the showdown, they won't be there.
and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear.
http://www.tonysegale.com
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I was afraid there may be a lightning bolt when I showed Rick Glawson
my first reverse glass sign, and if the Lord had chosen to send one,
who could blame Him? Most of you know who I am. My name is
William Blake. And I’ve been a vinyl slapper for some years. Now,
some time ago, I came face to face with gilded glass, several times.
These signs were brilliant…and I wondered why. Why did I get to see
these signs when so many other slappers hadn’t? Then one day, it
came to me…like the sun breaking through the clouds. God had a
plan for me. He wanted me to gild where I had done so much crappy vinyl
…and try to sell a little gold. To brighten up these towns…which a while ago,
I did so many ugly vinyl jobs. Today, I’d like to tell you that I’ve
bought many packs of gold leaf from Letterhead Sign Supply.
I’m gonna turn them into the finest gold leaf signs between
St. Louis and San Francisco. And they’re gonna need some great
signage…because in a few short years…these signs are gonna be
the envy of the entire Southwest. These are gonna be signs
where the techniques, not just any technique that might do, but
a techniques that will be brilliant, will be employed on every piece.
Ladies and gentlemen, along with the honorable Dead Men…
I’m proud to announce the formation of the
Billy Blake Glass and Design Company!


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Post by Tony Segale »

Billy. I wish you would leave these matters entirely to me,
or at the very least do me the courtesy of consulting me
before entering such banter. I am not scolding you, but
I am saying your headstrong ways will lead you into a tight
corner one day. I trust the enclosed reply will let you
conclude your bantering and return to building. Your
facility is in a panic and begging you to attend to more construction.
Yours, S. Noble Jenco.
and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear.
http://www.tonysegale.com
http://www.tonysegale.wordpress.com
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Post by Larry White »

Got a commission to do up this little ditty, for a friend...
you know anything about a man going around playing a piano?
He's someone you'd remember...

So I whipped out my Jackinson CDs and lit this sucker up from
his Centenial Collection....threw down on it some pirated fonts,
got an approval to do it up, seals, signatures, everything!
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I told you you'd never hang me, Jenco!......
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Post by Ken Davis »

Pretty. . .

That there glue chipped area, how you gonna get it thataway? Why the double chip I did for "the end is here". . . Well the ferns look just like old barn hay and there ain't a dern thing I can do about it. Ill send pictures soon.

Well Blake, you called down the thunder so here I am. You tell Jenco I'm comin. . .and the Previnylites are comin with me.

S. Preston
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Post by Larry White »

Now ya see there.....
Just finished up this little gem, for a friend. Executed on a stock mirror.
Whipped out my Jackinson Main Street Collection, threw down some
obsolete Letterhead Font, sandblasted it from the backside,
3 tone paint fill and some aluminum flitters, framed it up, ready to ship!
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Aho!


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Nice.
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I like it a lot.
My favourite colors.
Realizing we are in the 2nd renaissance of the arts.
Learn, copy and trying to improve...
Still in the learning phase ;-)
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