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  1. Contemplating ...... and / or ideas ....

    i'm just glad your baby..oh yeah and your fish are ok...myself i just wouldnt want to listen to the wife involved while i dealt with it all..
  2. Need Help with Logo Design

    nah better yet just go to one of those design contest sites..offer up a $15 starbuck's gift card, submit the 15 best designs to your client of the hundreds you will surely receive and then charge the client top dollar for your design work..heck i'll even chip in a couple bucks towards the prize...
  3. Various Sign Making Questions

    no Mark our industry has been overrun by yahoos that have no clue as to what they are doing...we have gone from being a skilled industry that was once respected to being viewed as an industry full of people who are not capable of doing what is required of us as professionals. i am regularly...
  4. Frequently Asked Question...................

    good grief you're a lucky guy if those are the questions you are getting asked...i get questions like is there money to be made in the sign business? how do i make it? if i don't have any experience and i buy the best equipment in town will i make money? why not? why don't you agree with...
  5. wind load calculation

    Kustom and this is why i encourage EVERYONE in the industry to get involved with their local government. Get involved with the writing of your local sign codes. I have been preaching this for years...ideally I would like to see standardization from one municipality to another but I sincerely...
  6. Biggest newbie questions

    it just makes me wonder how many people are on sites such as this getting their 'training' to do the same exact thing. this guy was dumb enough to out himself you know there are some that have masqueraded as sign people to get up and running.
  7. Biggest newbie questions

    thank you Fred!
  8. wind load calculation

    kustom the sad thing is that there are people in our industry who CAN screw it up...as hard as it is for you to imagine let me assure you it is possible. i have seen with my own eyes electrical signs with no wire nuts, not to mention the countless ungrounded electrical signs, non illuminated i...
  9. Biggest newbie questions

    get used to it wes...i've been saying it for a year we are preparing to get hit with the largest group of ppl with no experience that we have ever seen and there is only more coming...if your business is based on consumable (throw away type signs) banners, corex, etc you are going to get blasted...
  10. Various Sign Making Questions

    apparently you totally missed the underlying intent of the comment you received or just don't care...either way..whatever. most of us spent MANY years to learn the skills that we utilize to make our livings. many of us completed formal apprenticeship programs, some completed specialized...
  11. Please don't laugh too hard...

    not sure about that version of your software but user manuals are available at http://www.saintl.biz/ and you should be able to get a user manual from http://www.multicam.com/eng/Support/support.html
  12. Auto clear coat over chrome vinyl?

    yes they do Wes...we even have a few members of this site who are employees of an american motorcycle manufacturing companies graphic department (and a few members of american motorcycle manufacturing companies that are no longer in business). it isn't vinyl underneath clear that worries me...
  13. wind load calculation

    it amazes me how defensive and upset you are about this kustom. there are SO many yahoos that have been doing things half baked for so long that municipalities are forced to crack down. in my opinion if it is a permanent installation it needs the approval of the city, if the city decides that...
  14. Large Dimension Sign Substrate?

    you say dimensional sign but then your equipment leads me to think you mean a non dimensional sign? what is it? is this a dimensional or non dimensional sign. if it is dimensional i would probably use hdu and then the technique that i utilized to hide the seams or incorporate them into the...
  15. I dreamed about bob last night....

    geez i want to watch your dreams for an evening sounds better than tv
  16. Auto clear coat over chrome vinyl?

    without a doubt with this one you need to do a test. i've seen various films react completely unexpectedly when hit with certain clear cotes...chrome poly i would expect to behave even more unpredictably and because of the type of project this is a little bit of research could save you from...
  17. Green member with a printing problem

    hi i'm in the deli business (we make a mean potato salad and our own pastrami) and decided to make signs for a change of pace...deli business wasn't spicy enough. can you help me out? oh heck i won't beat around the bush will you just teach me how you all do what you do? and NO you can't cut...
  18. How much money do people make in this business?

    i know ppl who barely get by in this business and ppl who make very handsome incomes. not sure you are going to get ppl to post dollar amounts.
  19. wood substitude

    if you would like to experiment with hdu duna used to send out a very generous box of samples about 1' X 2' approx 5-6 pieces. a nice way to test out the material without dropping a couple hundred bucks on a full sheet.
  20. Please don't laugh too hard...

    let me know if i can help. the starting point would be to locate model number/serial numbers so that i know what equipment we are dealing with. do you know for certain that this equipment was in working order when useage stopped? in my experience these things usually stop getting used because...
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