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I especially like the scene where they are rolling out the pattern with two men and pouncing the charcoal powder on it as they go. I remember that being really tricky to do - you couldn't be off by the slightest bit on your placement. I also like the old guy's comments about his father starting...

See, that was always my problem with this type of work - the terminology. I'd have preferred they be called "rope stays ups" instead of rope falls! I hear ya on the years required before ya got turned loose on your own layouts. The old timer master painters I worked with required me to learn...

I just came across this excellent little documentary. It reminds me a lot of my early years in sign painting and the guys I worked with. I was especially struck by a comment in it about how many years it would take to attain the ability to do this... something we routinely see newbies in here...

This reminds me of a story that I am sure has happened to others. Back in the days before computers I had a guy stop in looking for a sign painting job. He had a fistful of Polaroid pics of signs he had painted. Problem was, there were 3 pics of signs I had done. When I confronted him about...

Since I saw the original poster is a fellow Hoosier, I didn't figure he wouldn't mind me pirating his thread for a quick story. This happened almost 30 years ago when I still lived in Indiana. A guy came into a shop I worked at and ordered a 4x8 hand painted for a bar located on a lake. A few...

That's Kim Bassinger's derriere

As an old signpainter, I subscribe to the theory that a good layout carries off a less than perfect execution of the lettering. The word "GOLD" looks like what a signpainter might have drawn with a charcoal stick on a board. The human eyeball will arrange it into a pleasing visual. I get into...

Actually, I thought the "O" in the original created a more perceptible visual dynamic to the overall design. It almost looked as if it shared the top line of the "D" - which would appear natural. If I was the one paying for it, I would select that over the revision. One thing for sure, submit a...

So take off all your clothes. HEY! Don't anyone jump on me about this - it's a song, okay?

I hear ya. I had a hard time fallin' asleep last night after watchin' Bones (that just sounded funny to me in a wink wink sort of way!).

I have no problem with that. I learned long ago never to rob people of a blessing by not letting them help you. The first surgery I had was a horrendous event brought on by spontaneous massive internal bleeding. I was left so weak I couldn't lift a gallon of milk for a few months afterwards and...

Just cut it finally about a month ago. I was headed towards a Willie Nelson look I liked but it bugged wife and daughter enough they finally prevailed and I cut it shorter.

A few years back there was a thread about the perils of using your real name in here where your customers could see and read your posts. It got me to thinking so I changed to this user name which I took from Arlon by Calon vinyl. Cool, huh?

Your mistake is in putting text signs on the traps. You should put a digital pic of the species you are expecting to use the traps. I thought you knew rodents can't read?

This thought has been on my mind since yesterday and I just have to voice it in here. The people who offered to take up a collection to help me pay the down payment required for a needed surgery yesterday really got to me. I told my story and in less than half an hour the fund drive was...

My feelings exactly. After all, they're just rodents! (First Prize to whoever can tell me why I said that)

While I deeply appreciate the concern (more than you know), I have to respectfully decline the offer. We have many more hardship cases in here throughout the year than I am currently in. I'll have the money in another few months, and my physical circumstance IS NOT dire. I've had an incisional...

Every hospital here now requires up front pmt. They said it's because they never get their money from 90% of patients pd. in full. Even though I've always fallen in the other 10%, it's not good enough now. The surgeon who has operated on me 5 times previously even won't bend their upfront...

Thanks for the thought, but I'm nowhere near hard up enough to even consider it. Save that for the next true hardship case we come across. I'll have it in another couple of months or so. It's just getting real hard to live with this incisional hernia. It burns a lot and like I said, I'm tired...

This is a first. Seems surgeon and hospital now want money up front before doing surgery - never was a requirement for previous 14 surgeries. It's $2,000 between the two. With 3 kids in college, I simply can't do it. Have to live with poking guts back into hernia awhile longer. Funny thing is, a...