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wow, Mark, you do cover the spectrum!! nice work all around!!
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Heck, Mark, is there anything you can't do? Talk about diversity. I've always wanted to do an Honors Board. Everything looks great. Love....Jill
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Thanks for the comments guys alot of the signies in australia do a broad range of work just what we offer. Jill honour boards are great to do I have a local chippie who makes the boards and he stains them real dark (darker the better for the gold to show out. The netball one I cheated on this as it is a versacamm print of the shadows and outlines and ribbon the previous boards I have done I hand painted everything then applied gold vinyl.
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nice work Mark. Great to see the paint stained wall. Love the detail in the black & white airbrushing.
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Well done Mark- your back wall looks just like ours!
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Great work! How do find the time to do all this different kind of stuff?
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Oh Boy Mark, I am impressed. Really lovely work! Are you going to the Letterheads meet in Cowra this year? Would love to see you there and soak up some of your knowledge and talent!!
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Anne thanks for the comments, no I won't be going to the letterheads in cowra, letterhead meets are a blast in Oz you will have a great time. If the letterhead meets get a bit closer to south australia my home state I will definately go.
Joe one thing I have never tried is carved signs, like the stuff dan does on a router not sure if clients would pay for that kind of work.
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Hey, Mark, NSW is about as close to SA as you can get!
(P.S. the next Visual Impact magazine due out soon, has a story about 3D signs I did- all by hand though, not CNC. You CAN do it , too!)
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Ian you are probably right probably 12-13 hour drive, should consider it but still probably lose 5 days downtime plus travelling,accomodation,food costs etc. Ian could you email me your article when you get it as I don't get that magazine and would be interested to see what you have done.
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If you want any information on Shane Durnford's workshops let us know. This is a great opportunity for us Aussies to get a jump start on this type of signage in Australia. You mention whether clients would pay for this type of signage, the workshop covers alot about selling & marketing dimensional signs. We've got plenty of room if accommodation is a problem. We'd love to see you here in Pambula.
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it's well-priced & full of good stuff actually. There's a free online version, or you can subscribe to the PDF version for free I think, but the current PDF version isn't the latest one up there: http://www.visa.org.au/VIMagazine.htm
There's a big 'How to' chapter on hand carving by Danthonia, in the latest edition, too (came in the post today).
I'll email you the story, but it'll take a couple of emails, because of all the photos. I guess I should put it on our website someday...
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