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A huge improvement. But then a tagger with a blank board and a spray can would be a huge improvement. Your effort is awful, merely less awful than the original.

It's not any particular typeface, just something that the being that made the drawing drew. You might do a little research ala Google looking for images of Reading rolling stock. If you can't find out what it looked like in real life, just pick a Roman face of sufficient aspect ratio, with...

I've used high pressure laminate flooring. Available most everywhere. Relatively cheap, light weight, the butt joints are close to invisible, inexpensive, and comes in a bewildering array of wood tones and patterns.

While it probably makes you feel all warm an fuzzy to affect such self-serving notions of quality and general superiority, a sign is a sign. As such it is functionally interchangeable with any other sign of the same size, copy, and materials. This inarguable fact no doubt causes your defensive...

Put them in small plastic garbage bags. That way they'll never scratch. The ease on down to your local UPS store. They should have proper boxes and Styrofoam corner protectors that will suspend the print in the box.

And the point in that exercise in futility is what, exactly? I saw really bad lettering executed using a most amateurish technique. With work of that scale generally one does not strike in and then fill. If you can call what they did striking in. You select the proper brush or nib or whatever...

I described this only today in another thread but it's worth doing again. I have an ~10" length of ~1"x3/4" brass bar. It weighs maybe a pound or two. The ends of the bar have a slightly rounded edge. You put the end of the bar, holding it at about 45 degrees and tilted over the edge...

I've covered 1/4" lexan with vinyl and had letters CNC cut and they came out perfectly. I've had lots of AL composite CNC cut and, while the cut is smooth the edges of the aluminum want to stand up a bit and I've always needed to knock them down. I use a1x3/4 brass bar about 10" long with...

On anything less than 30" on the long side I'll use commercial 1x3 [nominal] stretcher bars. I buy a stock of them them from various places on-line, wherever the best deal that day might be. If I need a size I happen to be out of I stop by the neighborhood Hobby Lobby and get a single set of...

Use the LHF Stevens Percepta that Jillbeans used, or one like it, for the sans serif text. I would have gone a bit heavier than she but that's me. The point is that this particular face looks like it's hand lettered. The slight but delicious concavities on the vertical and horizontal strokes and...

No. Typically one does not bend upper and lower case type. This is because the ascenders and descenders tend to look clumsy when when text is bent along a path. You can get away with it on a line of sans serif with no ascenders and especially no descenders. You should never do it with a serif...

The point of advertising is to sell the product. If you buy why would anyone possibly care how you feel? Your efforts, all of them, are a classic example of an MSWord wrangler working at full capacity. If you want to be in this business, invest in a decent collection of sign fonts. Including...

I don't do that many just like I don't do that many of any one particular thing. At a time. But...if circumstances were such I could do 10 a day, be done by lunch time leaving my afternoons for riding horses and smelling the roses, and net well over $700 per day. $700*5 days a week*52 weeks a...

I was at a meeting the other day where various of us were doing show and tell about our respective businesses. I had brought along, among lots of other things, a gallery warped canvas that was hanging on my office wall. Another attendee represented a custom greeting card company that also...

To use most any form of automatic registration mark printing, sensing, and cutting, the same software that printed the marks has to direct the sensing of the marks and the cutting. This is because only the software that printed the marks knows dimensions of the bounding rectangle described by...

His business, his tag line [however stupid it might be], his problem. Do not, as in ever, write copy for clients. Ever. Don't even suggest copy. Ever. The client delivers the copy, you make the sign, logo, butt tattoo, whatever. Don't fall into the abyss of writing copy. When some client...

Are you serious? Application tape is so cheap it's accounted as overhead. Like Xacto blades, paper clips, and masking tape. Laminate, on the other hand, typically is more costly than the vinyl upon which it's applied. Moreover it requires far more time, effort, and equipment to apply it...

Exactly so [but with an apostrophe as in"'They're"]. I use Oracal merely because it's the cheapest option available to me. There is cheaper but it would appear the those rolls were parted with a dull chainsaw. The ragged edges make peeling off the backing an educational experience. You learn...

Printers is printers and inks is inks. All contemporary name brand printers using OEM inks will all produce results indistinguishable from one another. You cannot tell, merely by examining the output, what particular brand of printer might have produced a particular print. You, as a digital...

Printing large tracts of solid color can be problematic. Turn it into a bitmap and add a little noise to it and it should print far more consistently. The added bit of noise turns the solid into a pattern that's not readily visible to the naked eye.