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For small decals the Gerber is still one of the best machines. You have many options fir spot colors that you won't get from many other machines. Unless you are doing a high volume of 4 color printing I'd stay with it

New acrylic face with jewelite trim cap glued to it with resin bond. Easy fix but not cheap if you don't have a cut off of acrylic the right size, or some jewelite or resin bond. You'll have to buy a full sheet of acrylic, a full roll of jewelite and some resin bond.

We usually make our own using this: https://www.nepcosignsupply.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=15645&idcategory=3738 Or if it is more generic common size just find the cheapest I can online.

My clients will usually want their sign to be in the portfolio. I can see where some cases they might not, but that's usually when it's inside a facility. What I get annoyed by are the companies that post photos that are obviously not theirs. Worked in a shop once where a sign salesman wanted to...

Great job Stacey, even "bad" signs can look decent. But as far as a "written warning" that's what the signed proof is for. I just had a job where they wanted a gray background with blue & orange lettering. I showed a medium/light gray and they insisted on a dark gray. I said I was concerned...

There was a bigger electric shop near here who had a guy doing side jobs, on the clock, with the company bucket truck.

I started in the day of hand lettering and almost every painter I knew, including myself, did side jobs. Once people know you make signs you get requests and those lead to some more. Nothing I did was ever in competition with where I worked. But I did know a shop where the owner wouldn't let the...

"Bill are you saying you feel that silicone on the stud in the 5/8" decking would be sufficient to hold these?" First, I like JBurton's set up, never used that. Second, it definitely depends on how heavy these letters actually are. But it's not like it's one stud holding the whole letter, I...

Do they send stainless steel studs with ss letters? If not I would get them and nuts. I'd thread the nut on the stud then run it down to hit the siding when its leveled. That with silicone in the hole should hold if the holes are tight. Seeing it's horizontal siding I would try to line up with...

Mesh banner with grommets in sewn hem w/ webbing and heavy duty zip ties,

Yep, we usually just let the studs fall where they may and have a spacer to make sure they are all the same off the wall

We do lots of these. When the sign doesn't line up with a rail we bridge between them with a piece of slotted angle, poke holes thru the tile and fasten to that.

If this happens no matter what foils & vinyl are being used first I would make sure the sprockets are clean and the drive belt is sound. After that you may be looking at the clutch or drive motor. But hopefully some other Gerber users are familar with the problem.

You mean other foils work and only this one does this? Then it's the foil hanging up which means get a new one.

Have you tried a different foil?

Weird that a boat gold leaf job wasn't cleared over. Vehicles are the one time you absolutely should clear it. In my experience, patched gold always looks like cr*p, even if you use the exact same size and leaf it won't match. So if you go ahead just be sure they know that.

I would make a panel that covers the old lettering and have a border stripe to "hide" it.

If the sign will be changed that often I would make a track with one end removable to switch out the faces.

We watched this (and the parade) on the local New York station while my grandmother put together the Thanksgiving feast

Wow, that's a new one, paying for your sign space by the month, and a rip off price at that. Buy a cheap box truck, register it and make it a portable billboard parked out front.