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I already have the shop I dreamed of.
Now I dream about the old days when I had a 15x20 garage and a few hand tools.
Sometimes wish I could go back to that.
We use aluminum posts on most of our post and panel signs.
Occasionally pvc sleeved pt posts.
You can buy 24' lengths of 4" sq 1/8" wall tubing for $4.50 a foot and cut to length as needed.
It's not hard to paint.Etch prime and topcoat.
We find it more cost effective for everyone to use alum...
Very nicely done.
I have found that using MDO as a stiffener is NOT a good idea though.Works ok for a 1 sider
but making a sandwich like that I find the MDO rots out very quickly.No place for the moisture to go.
Distortions and are great for adding contrast to your layouts. This effect allows you to warp a shape or word to imitate the effect of a three-dimensional substrate. Give your text the look of a waving flag, banner, cylinder, foreshortened wall, or almost any other shape. There are 23 presets...
I would do that for free
They look like 2x3 or 4 oh coro's you can probably find them on the inter web shipped to your door for 77 cents a piece
We do this free all the time for schmoozing golden clients.
If it is more than a few stickers we refer them to the one of many sticker/print mills...
I spent ten years of my life as a tube bender.
I will be tuning in just to remind myself of how not to earn living.
I have a neon bench in my shop.It is rarely used except for an occasional repair.
It may seem glamorous from the outside but 8 hours a day it gets old very quick.
Praise the...
Every second counts
I find it strange they you cannot paste into Aspire also
But speaking of copy paste I recently discovered you can copy a sketch from Corel right into body of an email.
Turns your sketch into a low res png.
No need to publish to PDF save and attach when sending sketches...
Was not questioning your abilities.
I was just expanding on what Gino said and making a point that it's not the machines and software that make great signs.
It's the person behind the machine
To expand on what Gino said.
I akin sign making equipment and technology to music.
It's not the instrument that makes you a great musician.
Perlman can make more music with a Popsicle stick than most in the philharmonic he performs with.
Your printer and plotter and software are just just...
We don't do banners anymore because there is no profit in them.
Trying to compete with sign mills that sell them for 75 cents a s/f is pointless.
When we did do banners is was always 13oz
Very clean looking.
Pass off with some more info.
Where the walnut come from ?
3/8 red plexi or clear that you painted ?
What kind of bit for the small letters ?
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