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LOVE the giant phone number on the Servicemaster sign. That has to be one of my biggest pet peeves when working with service businesses. The "make my phone number as big as possible" mentality. Seriously, who writes down a phone number off a sign driving at 55 MPH.

Use the color syles docker. (ctrl + F6)

"The colors look wrong on my phone" "I want it to look modern" "Make the letters 4" high"

One of the phrases that make me cringe as a designer, along with: "Make my phone number bigger" "Make my logo bigger" "Make it pop" "Make it look awesome" "Just squish/stretch it to make it fit" "Fit my square logo to a long rectangle shape" "I need a logo. I don't care what it...

Rick makes some excellent suggestions with those books. I'm sure it's frustrating for sign shop owners to find a designer that "gets it". I remember when I first got into the business and was looking for a job as a designer in a local shop getting turned down for not having a graphic design...

Thanks Jimmy! I look forward to trying a big one too :)

Good for you! Even more satisfying to sell it :)

That looks great! You should be happy with how that turned out.

Very nice lookng sign!

Yeah, most of that time is letting paint cure :)

I honestly don't remember how long I had into it. I will say that once you do a few of these, you can carve letters fairly fast. They have been profitable. :) But the biggest profit for me is being able to step away from the computer and create something with my hands. These are very...

You must know I'm a sucker for a cheesy pun :)

Thanks! It's a town of 312 people :) Might be a hipster or 2 mixed in there.

Just change it to Jazzy Caveman font and viola! Done. Collect the check.

Go for it! It does take a bit of practice, but isn't too bad. I'm still unsure what happened with the paint, I think it was just a matter of not cleaning the HDU properly before priming. I ended up changing the paint and primer and cleaning the bare HDU VERY well and that solved it.

These are some of the hand carved signs I've done. Nothing too fancy, just trying to hone my carving skills.

Great looking sign!

Many thanks Tiki!

Anyone recognize this one?

No clue, but nice design!