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Dinner and a Show...sounds legit to me! JB

This time of year, especially... I have three grandsons ages 5, 4 and 3. It's amazing how skillfully they've mastered this fine art at such an early age. The only thing left to teach them is not to do so in polite company...especially when their girl cousins are hanging around! But I'm sure...

By "locking" a .pdf, I meant that you can set fairly tight security restrictions for its use. NOTE: This is via Acrobat, I'm not sure if these options are available in other applications. JB

This may be totally off the point, but I've noticed considerable condensation buildup on my Canon desktop laser printer whenever we print a large job...say 50 pages plus. A fair amount of heat is generated and rises up out of the area where the paper comes out and condenses on the underside of...

You're correct, 30 mils would be perfect, and we like Anchor 116. But that means you'll need a plotter with tangential cutting capabilities...the knife picks up at the end of each cut, rotates, and is then lowered back into the stencil for the next cut. A drag knife will not work for monument...

If they are CASmate specific, your best bet would to have someone get you the entire CAS alphabets, numerals and glyphs (converted to objects) and then set about to converting them to True Type or Open Type fonts. Some programs have font generators...a feature that allows you to create fonts...

The quality of cut from a Gerber GS or HS plotter is extremely good. I'm running a machine that is nearly 25 years old and it does a wonderful job. I'd hazard a guess that the majority of the monument industry operates Gerber systems. But with that said, newer options such as laser cutters...

Depending on your plaque layouts, you might be able to get away with a Gerber GS15Plus (15") if you can tiile your artwork, that's what I do. There have been several on eBay lately, but be carerul, there's a lot of junk out there also. PM me for specifics if you have questions on how to layout...

I'm for outsourcing, saving / investing profits...and then paying cash when the clientele and schedule dictate when to buy the equipment. Or...buy an affordable piece of equipment you can pay cash for right now, and then upgrade as you go. JB

October 2019 Note to self: divest all gold securities and invest entire portfolio in acrylic / polycarb and PPE.

If they're removable, I'd send them to Matthews. If not, give their kit a try. I've seen the same issue with bronze statuary at our local private college, but their issue seems to have something to do with lawn chemicals. Ideally, the bronze should be vapor blasted, infill painted, letter...

"Murder Hornets"...what a bunch of hype. I was a beekeeper for almost 20 years and these guys have been around for a very long time. Just like the Africanized honeybee, the news media likes to play on people's fears. The only thing you can believe from the media is that the plight of the...

This is not mine, nor do I represent the seller. If I lived closer to pick it up, you wouldn't be reading this. WARNING: Seller only has a 77.8% feedback rating JB https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gerber-Edge-thermal-printer-and-GS-15-plus-plotter/153920107065?hash=item23d65a7239:g:~qsAAOSwk~peZjVo

If you're old enough....try to imagine Howard Cosell narrating the play-by-play on ABC's Wide World of Sports. Probably the best six minutes you'll waste today... JB

From what I've seen with the stainless waterjet letters I've ordered from Matthews: Punctuation = 1 stud Three studs on most letters, except the letter "I". Four studs on wider letters such as M,W,Z and so on. I honestly can't see a purpose for any more than four studs in any situation, and...

Hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot! This is starting to get interesting. JB

Ow...that hurt my eyes. I'm thinking "VD Services" (viral decontamination) would get him noticed quite quickly. Oh yeah...and with a tagline of "What bugs you, bugs us". Better watch out....Johnny Best will be all over this in the morning! JB

I also run Omega and have totally given up on Composer's merge feature. I use SignLab to do our stencils for donor bricks, and with a few clicks of a mouse I can literally have thousands of customized layouts instantly on the screen merged from Excel or a tab delimited text file. I've yet to...

Looks like something from Smith & Wesson

Here's a few videos of the action....lick your chops...this is crazy amazing. And for a "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" look behind the scenes: