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  1. Dream Shop

    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.
  2. would anyone happen to know where to get 4x4 metal posts in white?

    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...
  3. Recent HDU/Aluminum job and a HDU monument sign

    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.
  4. Simple directional sign

    muy bien hecho , como de costumbre
  5. Question about blury sign Help please!!

    Blury in Blury out
  6. LXi 8.6 expert need help giving a word hourglass look.

    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...
  7. Open hood SALE signs?

    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...
  8. The top 5 reasons NOT to start a sign shop

    Reason # 7 Trying to earn a living producing products who's prices have been driven to the bottom like we have in the sign industry is dumb.
  9. Neon sign shop on "Somebody's Got to do it" tonight

    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...
  10. Vectrix Aspire Users?

    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...
  11. coroplast blanks

    https://www.google.com/search?q=18+x+24+coroplast+signs&oq=18x24+cor&aqs=chrome.2.69i59j69i57j0l4.12239j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8
  12. Moving up..... (kinda)

    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
  13. Moving up..... (kinda)

    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...
  14. Cutting software for CorelDraw

    Stand by Old paint will be by shortly
  15. What types of banners you sell the most

    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
  16. Simple easy donor recognition sign

    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 ?
  17. Anyone recognize this

    thanks tiki
  18. Anyone recognize this

  19. roland down and we have a large order

    Might be dumb question. Why print,laminate and cut and weed ? Why not just print laminate and apply to the mag. Skip the weeding and tapeing part
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