what are your favorite things, that you got because someone raved about them on this board.....

for me:

a boston stand-up stapler
pelucid
iwata eclipse airbrushes (using HP-C before)
some lettering brushes
signcraft magazine
photoshop

this is what i came up with on the spur of the moment...there's more i'm sure.

thanks for the new toys

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gail
wacky wetcoast of bc
 

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surf or MoJo on mirc
Cheryl J Nordby
Signs by Cheryl
(206) 300-0153
Seattle WA.....!
signsbycheryl@hotmail.com
A day without sunshine is like, you know...night http://signsbycheryl.homestead.com/home.html
http://mojosignco.homestead.com/home.html

From sharp minds come sharp products

Roger

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Roger Bailey
Rapid Tac Incorporated
Waikoloa, Hawaii

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Chuck Peterson Graphics
1860 Playa Riviera Dr.
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif. 92007

 

Since then... when someone posts that they have *used* a product and they like it- THAT'S enough for me! When I need said type of product I come here for the brand name that *works*. Anyone can *say* their product works, but unless you (or someone here) has actually tried it- ya never know...

Who wants to find out that the Clear Coat you're about to use is gonna eat your last 7 hours of work right of your 4x8 sheet of MDO by APPLYING it? Not me, when I read here that some of those clears will do that... I made the mental note "not to use THAT" and learned from the poster's experience. (of course being the mental giant I am today.. I can't think of the actual brand name of the clear that did that, but that's what the "search" on this site is for- so I don't have to remember EVERYthing. )

I found Airbrush Action here,
and Sign Craft Magazine,
and Product Sign Supply (man I LOVE that shop!)
and Rick & Lola sold me my first "real" sign brush,
and I got Crazy Jack's CD via meeting him through here -WOW!(and from him directly! How many products are out there where you can meet the Top Dog?!)
and speaking of Top Dogs- I even meet Roger one time when he was with the Amphibious Daring Duo... for me it's like meeting the *stars* of our trade when you get to talk to the real person that started the product you are buying!
ALL great stuff that *works* and works well!

What better a reason do you need to advertise here?

We can chop up a product and nit pick it to death here and Steve will not "gag" us for our opinions (which is why we hang out here), BUT the advertisers can come in and post too. They can stand up for their product or stand behind it and tell us why it doesn't work, or how to use it *right*.
Like Roger- we can use Rapid Tac for EVERYthing! I did not know that, until I read it here.

The always traveling on three tangents at once side of the Moon

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The Moon
aka: Stefenie Harris
Moonlight Designs
Pollock Pines, CA
learnin' somethin' new every day!

3M gold squeegees - thanks Dave Grundy.

Corel 9 - no thanks, Dave Grundy. LOL

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Graphic Impact
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
gisigns@sprint.ca

I'd say that nothing I have learned here is my favourite..as far as tools or equipment is concerned. What I cherish most is the encouragement to go to my first Letterhead meet! (Bruce Bower's meet in '97, I believe)

AND, of course, meeting some of the folks that I have met at those meets.

Thank you, Steve n Barb, for having had the vision to provide a place for newbies like me to meet some of the "legends" and the other newbies like me.

AND thank you again, Steve n Barb, for the wisdom to realise that using a computer is not against the principles of good design.

OK, enuf from me!

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Dave Grundy
AKA "applicator" on mIRC
"stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!"
in Granton, Ontario, Canada
1-519-225-2634
dave.grundy@quadro.net
www.quadro.net/~shirley

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Duncan Wilkie
aka signdogwww.commercialsigns.com
Edmonton, Alberta
Home of the 2001 World Athletic Championships "The Worlds"
www.2001.edmonton.com
 

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HotLines Joey Madden
Pinstriper and designer of the Inflite'
See it go to work http://www.killerkoncepts.com
learning capabilities http://www.members.tripod.com/Inflite
 

gold leaf, script, oracal, rapid tac (emmm, yummy) c-thru plastic ruler, my pallette knife, mark fairs web site, Samuel Adams summer ale, Essoteric, Fexi-sign, illustrator, photoshop, chocolate ice cream, prime rib. my fatorte thing of all time has to be...100 dollar bills!

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"A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?"

Ken McTague
The Witch city
Salem, MA

 

so sorry, i forgot. i knew i was forgetting something

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gail
wacky wetcoast of bc
 

Roger

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Roger Bailey
Rapid Tac Incorporated
Waikoloa, Hawaii

As she never gets dull and always stays sharp!
(On the wierd and witty Part!) of things!

Puts me back into place and tells me when to come to bed!
"And I can buy all those things in the spring."

I tell her of the money I could have made!
And she tells me of her 8 hours of a hard labouring Day.
After the fact and the evening will fall!
Into her Arms I will crawl..

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Raven/2001
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower Sackville N.S.
deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca

[This message has been edited by Stephen Deveau (edited March 18, 2001).]