Just reading through the notes posted here and got to thinking what are you the people working on these days? I am in between projects. But I have a 4 x 8 add sign to do for a pizza company. The sign is going in a hockey area as a sponcer sign . Should be fun to do. I am going to start the art work for this in the Morning ! ! !
Steve
-------------------- Stephen Bender Ideal Signing & Graphics Wroxeter, ON, N0G 2X0 idealsigns@tnt21.com
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re-orders of directory nameplates (vinyl on "slatz" from Spadex) Screen-printed 3-color .080 Alum. signs w/ detailed map for Forestry Div. A couple sandblasted signs, some graphic design work (logo revisions, t-shirt layouts & seps.) 2 translucent plex sign faces with cut vinyl & edge prints, Some surfboard rice paper laminates, edge prints on Sintra, & always a few basic banners happening.
The most unusual thing right now is 3 different complex organic looking patterns adapted from primative polynesian Tapa cloth (tree-bark) designs, & re-worked into 8 foot long designs Edge printed on matte clear vinyl for decorating the walls of 40 units being remodeled for Hotel Hana Maui.
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5' x 18', 6" thick scenic carving for the main waiting area of Glacier Park Internmational Airport. Depicts Flathead Lake, the Mountains near Glacier National Park, pines, rocks, a very large bull elk, a pair of ducks in flight, four 2' cameos, one in each corner. One each for the Grizzly, the Meadowlark, the Bitterroot flower and the Rocky Mountain Goat. The whole thing is Precision Board, two panels, one 5'x10', the second one 5'x8' joined and bonded with PB240. Total weight is 700 pounds. Special steel easels with wheels were built with a 15 degree angle for the carving and transport process. This particular carving will be done as completely realistic and we expect it to be the crown jewel of our website. Both Rosemary and Latigo are in on this one. They'll both be learning about carving muscle tone, fur and feathers.
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-------------------- Pierre St.Marie Stmariegraphics Kalispell,Mt www.stmariegraphics.com ------------------ Plan on knowing everything before I die and time's running out! Posts: 4223 | From: Kalispell,Mt 59903 | Registered: Mar 2000
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Pierre, I can't wait to see this one...Please post as soon as you finish.
Myself I have been struggling with a new program _"Fireworks".I think I am about to learn it...However this week I have been repainting and repairing a 36''x 16' Neon sign, in place.....Fortunately there is a flat roof just below the sign, and I could walk along and coat out the letters and cut in the background, (sort of like painting a billboard or wall sign....I sure enjoyed this project as a break from the Computer. I had almost forgot how much "FUN" this was.He He He Shep'
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4 3'x6' Real estate signs. Lettering for a machine shop truck. Lettering for a Milk hauler. 3 Under car neon sets. 3 2'x6' 3 color banners. Magnetics for our local fire department for the new dive team we have. And I have to get my truck ready for the Festival of lights parade we have each year (its gonna be a blast!)
-------------------- Ryan Ursta Ursta Graphics 116 B North Mercer Avenue Sharpsville Pa. 16150 Call: 724•962•2206 "We make YOU look good"
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Designed some layouts for a trucking company...then get to letter his trucks next week. Also a yacht. brrrr. (wish he would have wanted it done in the summer!) Today I go to Issaquah to see what signs a jeweler wants. It has been pretty slow.......hope it picks up. I don't like winter!!!!
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39 grocery stores with patriotic messages. Flags, banners and eagles all arraged for each one that is different. November 1 usually menas the holiday windows begin....Ho,Ho,Ho! The car dogs have until Nov 17th before their campaigns change. Ford stores will be the first to change. Hope the weather holds!
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1561 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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I just went through a busy spell, striping and graphics on about twenty big rigs, a dozen Cadillacs, two 4x8 coroplast signs (whoopee), haven't done a golf cart in fifteen years, one week I get two. One is a Jeff Gordon copy the other I had to paint camo, he had mud tires on the back, he's gonna deer hunt off it, quiet ya know, although I think it's gonna get stuck Friday I have to flame a third generation Camaro.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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I've been cleaning office and getting things packed up this week, getting ready to hit the road for my winter working vacation. The hardest part has got to be pulling the vinyl bits out of the carpet. hehehehe
Other than that, I've had an explosion of smaller jobs within the past couple days. Figures, right when Im trying to get things to wind down so I can pack, I gotta fire up the works again.
I've got a set of decals that might need edge printing (Glenn Taylor, ya up for it?), about 50 windshield banners to put together, and some t-shirt designs I need to get set up for the printers. Gotta rather large custom graphic kit to put together for a ford dually, waving checkered flag with an intertwining ribbon in burgundy, all with airbrushing to add some dimension.
When I get to my destination in St Louis, I have the distinct pleasure of figuring out how to build a glass wall that forms a compound curve... and you thought getting vinyl around a compound curve is tough...
I've also recently gotten back into 3D Modeling, one of my all-time favorite hobbies. I'm building a 3D Model of a concept vehicle in my spare time.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com
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Two small sandblast jobs, one nice (more lucrative) sandblast job. Just finished a reeeeely nice(substantially more lucrative) sandblast job. Fixin' (making preparations) to go thru the stress of having a new shop built and all that goes along with that.
Bracin' for some big bills.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com
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Some neat stuff: A DF hanging carved sign, with an irregular shape and marbled coloring to look like a slab of marble, with a full-relief ram's head sculpture aplique on both sides.
Several holiday posters for a local church, vinyl on coroplast.
A carved sign for a winery, oval, 3'x5'.
A painted sign for a B&B.
Several small carved house signs.
A 4'x8' for the side wall of a shoe-repair shop. This is an upgrade from an ugly sign contest participant to an Ohnimus-inspired design, and will be one of my best before-and after comparisons. Refinishing an eight-year-old carved mahogany sign -one of mine- for a restaurant, which is reminding me how much I love HDU.
And the usual collection of small paint/vinyl jobs.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988"
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Trucks Trucks and more Trucks for one particular customer and, as of today, a 53' trailer too. Nothing really exciting but it is gonna make the winter more comfortable (especially the month of January in Mexico )
Oh yeah...A nice layout for a 50' sailboat that won't be ready to do until next spring. "Christina Rose" is the name and they want "roses" incorporated into the names on the hull AND etched roses on all the interior glass/lexan cupboard doors and wood inlays into the counters and tables in the cabin. I'm looking forward to THIS one!
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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I have a double sided portable canopy like they use at race meets to be signwritten in the kawasaki logos but the big problem is I can't figure out how to put the thing up first.
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I am working like an idiot here as usual....when I see posts like this it would be nice to see pics to go together with some of the projects...like work in progres!
Its more fun to get some visual references and then see the final rendition on the Portfolio page some time later. No critisim! Just interested in really seeing what other folk are up too. I have just bought a new digital camera so when I get going with it, I will post a few works in progress!
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an 8' x 4' x 2' styrofoam pennzoil bottle, 3'x8' carved HDU, 20 plaques for a big post sign, an aluminum 2'x15' another 3'x6' 2 sided, painting my house, fixing my shop, keeping heinekens cold, & chips & dip accessible.
-------------------- Felix Marcano PuertoRicoSigns.Com Luquillo, PR
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We've been busy finalizing a distributorship agreement for standoffs and wire and rod systems. We have got a trade show next week so we're busy making a new display for it. We were in a show last month in Calgary. http://www.commercialsigns.com/standoff1.htm It's been a panic doing this and running the sign business too.
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I haven't done any acutal construction for a while. Like most years this time of year is spent at the design table.
I alternate between four large design jobs. The most exciting one is our new house/studio/workshop which will be hidden in a mountain. It will be the second phase of Giggle Ridge. Around this is a grand scale train (also to be built by us. And a theme bumperboat pool as well. All this is crammed on a half acre and is pretty exciting.
The drawings will be aprt of the new websites which are in the final stages of design as well.
So it is a busy time!!!
Havin fun in the sun.... make that under the worklights.
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!!
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I have a sandblasted and carved HDU sign...2-sided. Three hadpainted signs for a new housing development. 2 10' x 2' handpainted signs for a government agency. An interpritive sign 4' x 2 sign with a painting of the harbor...going on an overlook. A new truck to pinstripe and letter. An 8' sawblade to paint a picture of the sea-stacks out on the ocean. Just finished striping a motorcycle tank and fenders. Just finished guilding the name and homeport on a $6 Million yacht. A 35' x 8' mural (on Sintra) of a rural scene in Holland. On the left is 4 windmills fading into the distance, a canal with a boat, a couple in the grass having a picnic, and of course, a LOT of tulips. It will be installed on the wall above and behind the reception desk at a new dentists office. I am diong it in my shop and then will install it as soon as it is done. I REALLY love to do these in the winter...i charge enuf so I can take my time and have fun doing it....it also pays for my winter!!! Yehaw
and that is just TODAY...I wonder what tommorrow will bring? p.s....I just love bieng busy,
-------------------- Jackson Smart Jackson's Signs Port Angeles, WA ...."The Straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and Olympic National Park in my backyard...
"Living on Earth is expensive...but it does include a free trip around the Sun"
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Hello all, I'm working on Airport pager boards for a hotel group, screenprinting correx panels and decals, manufacturing wrought iron bracket and hand painting and illustrating the board to go with it for a home pub, masking and spraying pvc panels that will be welded to the sides of torque liners and eight ton trucks, and I'll be signwriting a calico awning and applying sandblast texture vinyl to the windows of the same shop. But You know if it doesn't rain it pours wev'e had all this stuff pending and now it's hit us all at once. And then they want to know why it's not ready yet!!!!!
Yep it's been a bit tough this year what with losing 2 people that have been a big part of my life and having part of a testis removed I can't wait till next year cause it promises to be better if just a little. This is the year of the snake and it really has reared it's ugly head in more countries than we think.
All The Best Alan Mandelbaum Johannesburg, South Africa E-Mail: mindydesigns@icon.co.za
-------------------- Alan Mandelbaum Mindy Designs Johannesburg, South Africa mindydesigns@icon.co.za
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10- 32"x42" jobsite signs for a contractor with colonial cut out tops
65 halloween parade sign, event signs,etc... all black and orange on white coroplast
30" x 10' mdo painted sign for a cafe'
ADA signage,4'x6' d/s carved, gilded, gemini letters, 4'x4' round mdo, vinyl, stop signs do not enter, handicap parking... for elderly housing project! tons of work!
plus the city just sent me P.O for the city hall annex and may approve a propasal for 6- 4'x6' gold leaf dimensional signs for all the entrance corridor's in Salem!
and in my spare time... .....working on a bunck of new Fonts for LHF
-------------------- Ken McTague, Concept Signs 57 Bridge St. (route 107) Salem MA 01970 1-978-745-5800 conceptsign@yahoo.com http://www.pinheadlounge.com/CaptainKen
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Friday I have to flame a third generation Camaro.
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