Alaskan Gold Rush

[Roderick Treece]

I am working on a glass sign and antique mirror project for the Denali Nation park. I found some really cool art work for reference. Thought you might like to see some of it.

[Jerry Berg]

It looks like a fun job! You've got some nice things to work with there. Can't wait to see 'em done.
I like the larger letterstyle used on the first one, someone should turn that into a font. Hmmm... I just might do that.

[Roderick Treece]

So Now I've got the "Lucky Miss Saloon Panels all buttered up with glue just waiting to go in the chipping booth.

[Suzanne Ravgiala]

Hey I did the gold leaf at Scagway Alaska about 15 years ago. I did the gold for "Gold Rush National Historical Park" and many of the antique style directional signs. It was so cool because i got a free trip to alaska and earned 2 thousand bucks on top of that ! Good luck with your job. I always wanted to do a chipped glass sign, and someday i may look into it on this forum.

[Mike Jackson]

That's an interesting spelling of "Good-By".

Here's a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson spelled the same way:

Good-by
Good-by, proud world, I'm going home,
Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine;
Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
A river-ark on the ocean brine,
Long I've been tossed like the driven foam,
But now, proud world, I'm going home.

Good-by to Flattery's fawning face,
To Grandeur, with his wise grimace,
To upstart Wealth's averted eye,
To supple Office low and high,
To crowded halls, to court, and street,
To frozen hearts, and hasting feet,
To those who go, and those who come,
Good-by, proud world, I'm going home.

I'm going to my own hearth-stone
Bosomed in yon green hills, alone,
A secret nook in a pleasant land,
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
Where arches green the livelong day
Echo the blackbird's roundelay,
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.

Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
And when I am stretched beneath the pines
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man,
At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet.

from: Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York, Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company: 1899. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole.

[Roderick Treece]

Mike ,
Thank's for the poem.

Well here's where I am as of today.

[Roderick Treece]

Chipping nicely

[Roderick Treece]

All chipped,masked and waiting to be antique mirrored.

[Roderick Treece]

The left one is antique mirror and the right one will be next.

[Roderick Treece]

All the panels are now antique mirrored .The mask has been pulled off where the black outline and drop shadow will be.
Thank Blake!

[Roderick Treece]

All cleaned up and ready to go drinking. My next step will be to apply porcelen crackle to the letters,stain that with tinted orange shelleck and then 23k gold.

[Larry White]

I'll be danged!

I always took you for surfing, and idle conversation!

That's niether!


Nice job! Looks like fun too!

That was always one of Frank's tricks,
...watching the glue chip,

and there's no reason to hurry!


Hey, I think I see Sally's bacon hanging in the background!

[Jerry Berg]

Those look really good Roderick, nice job!

So, that was Sally's bacon eh... I usually get blamed for that type of horseplay.

One more thing, what brand of crackle finish you using around there?

Thanks,
Jerry

[Roderick Treece]

Jerry,
I am using Old World Art crackle . 1800 700 5527
If they still sell it get ready to buy a gallon of A /B

The photo show it about a hour after applying the fracture coat.

Your assuming alot thinking that was Sally's bacon.

Roderick

[Rob Schramm]

Roderick,

The crackle product is interesting however what is the companies name and phone number as the name you gave it did not come up on a Google search and the phone number is for a live talk line!

[Roderick Treece]

Rob,
Your right .Man can that girl talk fast!

1 888 700 5527

I am not sure if they even still sell. Last time I had to buy at least a gallon of each. So I bought 4 gallons.

[DAVE SMITH]

Your full of ideas Rod.Nice job!
Dave

[Roderick Treece]

Thanks Dave,
This client has been really great to work with. Maybe one day I'll get up to Alaska to see the job.

This photo was after the crackle, asphaltum stain ,tint of sellac and then 1 hour size.

[Roderick Treece]

All cleaned up, gilded and drying. Tomorrow I'll put the jewels in.

[Roderick Treece]

Jewels are in.

[Roderick Treece]

All finished and ready to pack up and ship.It's been a fun project.
Total size is 1'3" x 9"

[Kelly Thorson]

They look great Roderick!
On the image that shows the close up of the reverse it appears that the crackle coat was put over the black shadow and some of the mirroring as well. Did it not affect that part at all?
Can you tell us more about the crackle - is it a waterbase, oil or epoxy? Is it a crackle made specifically for glass or leafing?
Thanks!

[Jerry Berg]

Those really look great Roderick! Nice chip pattern.

[Roderick Treece]

Hi Kelly,
We missed you last month! There was a tent spot in your honour .

When I do the crackle finish I spray part one ( Which I think is Wonda size) on to get a nice even coat. Then spray the crackle coat over that. Depending on how thick you put the crackle coat on is what dictats the size of the crack. Thinner/smaller, thicker/bigger. The crackle just gos over everything,glass ,paint ,what ever you put it on. It does not like glossy oil based paint.It does effect the front of the painted area at all.
Notice how it crackles right over the vinyl mask dot where the jewels going to go. If you look close at the outside areas you can see where the crackle get smaller.

It is water based material.

I beleave it was made for decorative painting originally. I first knew of it as a" Porciline crack"

[Rob Schramm]

I am going to call them today and see if they still offer this crackle and if so I am going to buy a few gallons.

Now I have a question, I love the look of the antique glass that you got and it may just be the lighting but can you share how you got that antique look to the panels? I know about the silvering I am talking about how you got that nice rich color.

Man those panels are amazing!!!

[Kelly Thorson]

This link may be useful. It sounds as if it is the same type of product and it can be ordered in quart sizes. It comes in clear, but also in black, white and gold metallic. It uses Aqua Size as a base coat.

I'm sorry I couldn't make it too, Roderick, I would have dearly loved to have seen some of you again. Maybe next year.
Send me a group photo so I know who I missed.

[Rob Schramm]

Yes I am very familar with Faux Effects products as that is where I took some classes for faux finishing. Most of there stuff is awesome but very costly when it comes to something like this and there are tons of other ways to do it that work but I wanted to see what company makes this stuff.
Thanks for the response though!

[DAVE SMITH]

They look cracking! Rod. nice work
Dave

[Roderick Treece]

Thank's Dave,
That means alot coming from a guy who know his crack.

Here are some photo of the next two sign I just finished for them. Everything is hand painted.

[Dave Dubé]

You people have way too much fun to be gettin' paid to do thid kind of art...