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When I was a pinstriper at a major motorcycle manufacturer we were constantly being bugged by guys wanting to learn to pinstripe... only one out of the dozen or so we tried made it into production work. I WISH a young person would want me to teach them to hand letter... computers came along...

It's my favorite electric sign I've designed. The credit goes to the guys in the shop who built it... bending channel letters on SteveC's SignFonts script I used was a real challenge for them... and also nesting the 3 pieces of the keyboard into it. Couldn't have accomplished it without them.

That looks great for a gold leaf kit. I adapted the carrying case from a K-11 Cutawl once as a gold kit. Wish I still had it although there isn't much call for window gilding in Texas with all the tinted windows.

Wow Craig... that's an awesome box. I hear ya on the new attitude about sign painting. I've read numerous times there is a renaissance going on in sign painting, but I haven't seen it around here. Still get the occasional big wall job though. I think those of us who can paint but got into vinyl...

Yes, that's exactly what they are. I missed the part in the center's criteria that called for reverse channel letters only and we had aready submitted my design to the client with the sax and keyboard. They loved it, but of course it wouldn't work at night as a standard reverse channel letter...

During my last heyday of sign painting in the early 80's I used to spend time on Saturday cleaning out my sign kit from the previous weeks work... oiling brushes, etc.. This is a kit I got at an estate sale a few years back. The painter who owned it died in the early 70's. I picked this up for...

Awhile back I posted a layout for this sign. It is now finished and installed. This is a night time pic of it lit up. Since installing it we've sold one other job in this center and are working on layouts for two more.

Especially the pic of Olivia Wilde I posted. I'll take REAL over a bag of Dow Corning silicone any day. I'll never forget in my younger days being the lucky guy a topless dancer decided to take back to her motel after her shift ended. She had spent the night dancing under an air conditioning...

This woman routinely fulfills my fantasies.

THANKS A LOT!!! For this link. Just downloaded the program - what a timesaver!!! I am at least ten times more productive with this part of my job. I owe ya one.

Welcome from the right side of the metroplex - fort worth!

Nice introduction. Be prepared for the education you're about to get on copyrights.

Jill... you've got to find a faster connection and watch this video. It's very professionally done and very poignant to us ol' sign painters. There's a wealth of wisdom in the short 12 minutes. It was refreshing to hear guys talk about knowing they have a few years to go before they can do it...

I love bluegrass festivals... used to be a blugrasshole myself. Picked a Martin D28 Custom 150th anniversary model. The Bluegrass Festival of the Americas on the Belvedere Plaza in Loisville, KY is best one I've attended,.

NOTHING beats opening up the doors to the shop and being greeted by the heavy aroma of turps and 1SHot paint. My blood is stirring just remembering it.

Awhile back somebody posted a method for doing this and I can't find the thread. What it pertains to is something I have to do numerous times each week. I get a dig pic of a building front from sales I have to scale to create layouts of electrical signs on. Usually, I am given a reference...

Bob Dick, the walldog I mentioned in this thread, spent over 30 years doing nothing but high work and never used a backboard on his stage plank. One day, while lowering to the ground, he stepped off backward, thinking he was at ground level. He fell and cracked a couple vertebrae from 3 feet high!

Where's Jill's opinion of the video? In fact, no sign gals have chimed in. I only remember 1 lady walldog, and she was a daughter-in-law to the Bob Dick sign painting family mentioned earlier.

I remember once climbing up onto a billboard to do a coat out of it for a repaint. There was a picture of a sports car on it that had been hand painted. From the ground, you could not tell it wasn't a photograph. Up close, I was struck by how crudely the chrome wheels had been painted - yet...

I once did a wall sign that was so big it took a gallon of paint to dot an "i". Just one of the many stock repertoire of sign lies I learned from my heroes. I'll never forget most of my adventures on a swing stage. I sold a Farm Bureau co-op job once to do their logo on a concrete silo that was...