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Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
 
Yesterday while lettering a sign, a young customer came in and saw me using my mahl stick and quietly inquired, "did you use that when you where young before you got shakey?"
 

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Posted by Jean Shimp (Member # 198) on :
 

 

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Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
 
That little whippersnapper...
 

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Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
 
I wish I would have been there to hear that. A long while back I was hand lettering a truck. A little girl, about 11 years old, asked me if I was an artist. I said "No, I am a sign painter." And she said, "Oh is that all."
 

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Posted by Rick B (Member # 26430) on :
 
Kids these days .... "where my smartphone"

[ April 20, 2019, 12:06 PM: Message edited by: Rick B ]
 

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Posted by Gerald Barlow (Member # 3477) on :
 
I just got paid for a truck I finished. The owner wanted it to look "old". I discussed thinning the paint with clear, distressing it, etc. No he sez, I just want simple old time lettering. I did one stroke with a drop shade and he was so happy. I wanted to do real artistic lettering with in-lines and fades, no old one-stroke wins.
 

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Posted by Gerald Barlow (Member # 3477) on :
 
I just got paid for a truck I finished. The owner wanted it to look "old". I discussed thinning the paint with clear, distressing it, etc. No he sez, I just want simple old time lettering. I did one stroke with a drop shade and he was so happy. I wanted to do real artistic lettering with in-lines and fades, no old one-stroke wins.
 

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Posted by Curt Stenz (Member # 82) on :
 
One stroke, the timeless, old classic stand-by.
 

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