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Atta boy Mark, Gettin the jobs done, an everyday Sign Maker in action........Is it just you and me here? Why don't other people post SIGN JOBS here?
Vynull or paint, they gotta be done, and they gotta look good....Nice work!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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Ok. I'll toss a commercial one in the pot, Mikey. Latigo won't do these for just anyone. They take too long with these insanely irregular tails on trucks like this with roll up doors and tunza rivets all the way around, but.......... This guy agreed to a really stupid price, so he did it. Clarity isn't too great here, but the finished product is truly photo quality.
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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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I just don't like wraps. too busy and no negative space. I miss the days of hand painted pictorials and such. oh well, different strokes for different folks as they say.
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Me too, Mark. Would you believe that I began back in the 60s doing lampblack wash illustrations of fashion and furniture for newspapres? No computers, no films, no nuthin' except brushes, paints and airbrushes.
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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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Well there ya go Pierre...those are nice "pictures" That really shows the customer what you're selling! The "W"'s are bit hard to read but otherwise it's a really nice wrap that shows depth and detail and obviouly you, or LAtigo, got good money for it, BRAVO!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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Ha! Shows how much you know! Them aren't double-yous. Them are DubYuhs! Actually, Mike........ The entire project was done by Latigo. Took a total of 5.5 hours to seat 14 48"x 8' panels with Rosemary assisting in holding the bottoms of the panels in place for the first squeegee pass at the tops. After the first pass he handled it alone. She was on another project in the shop and only broke away when he needed her to stabilize the bases and intial edge alignment from panel to panel. Both Lat and Rosemary literally grew up in the studio. I have factually never seen anyone as fast and accurate as these two kids, and the end result is always flawless. In that particular aspect of our operation I can say I've never come anywhere near their performance.
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Forgot to say that the end cost factor to the customer was $4,085.00. Lat estimates he had 125 lineal feet of 48" film and ink.... probably less than $305.00, but he did have the time invested in doing the photography for the project and layout time.
[ April 25, 2008, 07:52 AM: Message edited by: Pierre St.Marie ]
-------------------- 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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Yeah, but you can't get those prices around here.... You gotta be someplace like Montana, where people have money.
(edited to explain that this comment is intended to be taken as irony, a common literary device in which the literal meaning is the opposite of the expressed meaning.)
-------------------- "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" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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