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7.5'h, 12'w & 2.5'd. HDU crest, Airbrushed AC faces on a welded steel frame encased with Texture Plus stacked brick panels. Sculpted concrete caps.
Just finished, delivered and installed this pair 8 hrs to the North in Saskatchewan. Got to spend some time with a wonderful friend and Letterhead at the same time. Thanks for your hospitality and help Murray MacDonald!
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Yes it is two different signs. The one base has a big area of dirt in the front of it for landscaping purposes.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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quote:Originally posted by Rodger MacMunn: It's a good job you found Texture Plus ....... no telling HOW far you'd have had to go to find rock locally.
Yep, I was telling Murray I could have a much bigger profit by just putting on mortar and bending down and picking up some slate facing. Oh well at least it stands out a bit from the norm. I think when you are surrounded by something day after day it kind of loses it's appeal.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Thanks for the nice comments. Pat I made a plywood base and attached metal lathe and sculpted concrete over that. Each of thwe lower caps was made in three pieces and sealed together and finished once the signs were installed. I made a "drip lip" like you suggested.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Well done! I've never done anything like that before-awesome!
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Beautiful work Kelly, you can be very proud. I am sure this sign will lead to many more for you. Bill
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Wow...I'm just a southern boy but would that be the aurora borealis I'm seeing...several years ago an aurora appeared in our southern Tennessee skies...I was star gazing the night it happened...it was a big story on the Nashville news the next day...it was magnificent as are these signs...they could not be designed any better..they are simply beautiful...you'll have to get some pics after the landscaping has a chance to grow in a little...I can only imagine how that would make these great pics even more fanatastic.
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Thanks again for the nice comments. The signs are already installed but feel free Todd.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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I painted my first signs at Pennywise Foods in Creighton in 1970. Nice job Kelly. I haven't been back in almost 30 years. I hope to see it some day.