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Elegance. Understanding. Nuance. If you can't hand letter and have never set type, you're operating under a handicap that is close to impossible to overcome.

I don't get soccer. Teams play for endless hours, fans cut their ears off and throw them onto the field, cities riot, governments are toppled, and the score is one to nothing. It puts the B into boring. Much like hockey, another miserable excuse for a sport.

I use Gorilla Glue. Just a bit every 6 inches or so on the Alumalite, not the edging. Haven t had a failure yet. I always run a diagonal of blue tape across each corner so there's no question the this is edging and not part of the board. I hope the clients remember to remove it before they put...

Drill press and a Forstner bit. These bits are available down to 1/4" and are the civilized method for drilling clean holes with no breakout. They're more hole cutter than drill bit. If you buy one or a few or a set DO NOT buy el cheapo tool auction today at the grange hall Forstners, they...

You people work way too hard. A rudimentary understanding of simple geometry is all that's needed. Don't worry about the registration marks. Print the mirror image on the clear, laminate with the white [be sure to use a white with a clear adhesive], flip the print over, clear side up, load it...

The texture on the final product looks like the skin of a dying monster in a grade B movie when the puny humans finally learn how to kill it.

I worked with a couple of old masters. I watched. For years, I watched. Practice. Have a go at lettering anything that isn't moving. I used to do alphabets on the shop windows. Wipe them off, and do it again. And again. And again. Practice. Learn what letters actually look like. Most people...

Screws are out, the cut out letters aren't meaty enough. I cleverly cut an inline 1/8 from the edge of the letters out of paint mask and applied it to the Alumalite before painting. This will leave enough of the original Alumalite finish exposed for bonding. And give me a clue as to just...

I need to glue some plastic CNC letters to a chunk of painted Alumalite. The plastic will be acrylic, probably, and the Alumalite is painted because is doesn't come in the color needed. Neither does any vinyl for a flood coat. Paint it has to be. I don't want to use VHB tape unless I...

As a desperation move you can always apply a piece of el cheapo vinyl to the backing of the laminate. This will give the backing sufficient body to peel off properly. Or... learn to do it with one hand on the big squeegee and one hand peeling off the laminate backing, or use the double-sided...

Then you and your fellow tribesmen do or do not understand the difference between someone who not only is never going to spend a nickel with you, but doesn't know enough to be able to ask a good question, and someone who might? Which is it?

Perhaps there in your village there is no difference between someone wanting to spend money and someone who wants to capitalize on someone else's lifetime of experience for no remuneration.

I've always counseled anyone who wanted a tattoo to get a bumper sticker instead. Then, when you no longer feel as passionate about whatever you currently feel passionate about you can scrape it off your bumper.

Historically men seem to do better at this and most other similar endeavors, even in those areas where one might expect women to dominate. The best chefs, the best musicians, the best artists, and even the best soprano that ever was, whose name momentarily eludes me, are men. Empirically...

The nice thing about doing the power clip is that it accounts for any vertical or horizontal parallax in the original photo. Because of this, more often than not, you have to scale the image differently horizontally and vertically. In other words, often the aspect ratio of the reference...

Calling you a name is merely someone making a noise with their mouth, or their keyboard. If you are whatever it is you're called then you have no right to complain. If you're not, then it's just meaningless noise. Bullying is someone twisting your nose into the shape of a molybolt until you...

You're on the right track. Import the photo. Draw a wire frame rectangle around some rectangular feature in the photo for which you know the height and width. Of the feature in the photo, not of the rectangle you're drawing. I always set a standard 16x24 framing square flat against the subject...

Hand lettered.

I forgot about the little dwarf. That would make the death trifecta complete.

I wouldn't have worded it at all. I would have struck out into the canebrake and rounded up enough information to be able to ask an intelligent question.