I will start with a few items, and you can add more,
1. What was a MAHL STICK? (a device to prop up the truck hood)
2. KIT CAN (the area designated for the shop cat to go to the bathroom)
3. CHARCOAL STICK ( Same as the stuff you use in the grill only smaller and straighter)
4. CHINA MARKER ( This was a Chinese tape measure to mark out big graphics on football fields
5. 1 SHOT ( all you were good for with your wife in the bed room after inhaling lacquer thinner all day
6. SNAPPER ( A term applied to a sign guy who would pull back the elastic on a sign gals panties as she was bent over working and let it "snap". This was before anyone ever even heard of sexual harassment)
O.K. I think I got those right. I know there are more.
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6.Sizing the Glass (It's a term used to measure a glass to see how big a hammer your gonna need to break it, cause the check bounced) 7. Boxing the Paint (It's how paint is shopped, in a box) 8. Whistling Tack (It's the sound you hear when a sign guy sits on a poorly upholstered stool) 9. Palletting the Brush (It's when you lick the brush to make sure it's made of real squirrel hair) 10. Indelible Pencil ( Used to pinstripe white banners also used by Cholas for lipliner) See Picture,,,
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Nose grease - well . . . turns out it's actually good for one thing . . .
Paint skin - lid.
Pounce wheel - sometimes used to perforate pizza in-shop . . . On site: you get to tell inquisitive customers, 'Yeh - it takes HOURS poking all these holes with a straight pin to create this pattern . . . '
Phone book - a paint pallet.
Cup of coffee - paint thinner cup.
Screw-driver - a tool used to impale the palm of your hand when removing shipping clips off paint cans.
Exact-o knife - a rolling tool used to instantly remind you where your feet are in relationship to any unlevel surface where you're working . . .
Meanwhile Rick!! - how's it going in Mendocino!! Have the fires affected you????
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Sheila, the fires were thirty miles inland and the smoke covered the coast making some very colorful sunsets. We know several that lost homes. We are doing fine though. Megan and I are working the shop without any employees and absolutely loving it. Taking in some fun jobs, working for nice people, doing it at a pace that's comfortable for us. We get to stay around home and enjoy our community, and most every afternoon I get to make a trip into town to meet with friends for a session at a coffee house we all like. My friend Gary Rhoades moves to Bamalama a few years back and I hope that you get to meet him and make some music.
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