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I remember all too well many years ago tryna get a Roland PNC950 plotter to work with my Gerber Omega software. The venerated elder of Signs101, Old Paint, patiently walked me through the steps and got me up and running. In the process he made a believer out of me in friction fed plotters which...

While it's been years since I was a regular, daily participant here I occasionally find myself checking in to keep abreast of things going on in my former career I've been happily retired from for over 8 years now. My last posts concerned a retirement pursuit that made it possible for me to once...

It happened again this past weekend. Set up at a large craft fair with my line of small hand lettered interior decor signs. After awhile I walked through two gymnasiums and hallways in the school checking out the other vendors. There were three booths with people selling their identical looking...

Two weeks ago my wife and I left on a trip from Texas to Michigan to attend an uncle's memorial. It was our first road trip in our new to us 2014 Ford Explorer. It was a very nice car, past tense intended. We had it two weeks. We were stopped in construction traffic on 55N in Illinois when a big...

If you're schooled in a certain text you'll know the rest of the quote goes "The heart speaks". As a long time member of this site who was once a popular regular here with more friends than I can count, I've recently been made aware approximately 10 people have a long standing distaste for...

I wish you could respond to a post with a recorded voice message. If you could, you'd hear in my tone of voice a bit of how I'm baffled as to the response I'm going to share with you in a moment to a comment I made and you'd definitely hear a ton of lighthearted amusement. THIS POST IS ABOUT THE...

After about 8 years my shop computer hard drive finally failed. I wanted to keep winXP but couldn't find a disc for it so I bought a new version of win10. After installing the new solid state hard drive and win10 I tried loading the last version of Gerber Composer. Nothing was compatible. Did I...

2017 was my first year of my "hobby" business of selling smaller hand lettered interior decor signs at craft fairs. My largest take was a little over $500 in 6 hours one Saturday. It's definitely not a financially lucrative endeavor but is a fun weekend outing for my wife and I in our...

I started pinstriping my new cargo van the other day with the current version of 1 Shot. It's a far cry from the paint I had the last time I striped a truck. When thinned and palleted out to brushing consistency it has no body to it. None of what the old timers called "ropiness". Maybe the Trump...

Don't bother reading unless you have the funds to experience a case of what musicians call G.A.S., Gear Acquisition Syndrome! I had a good friend who passed away last month after a second round of cancer. He was a prolific guitar collector, as I used to be when money was more plentiful. His...

A woman called me after seeing these interior decor signs on Facebook. She is a promoter for a big handmade items fair in a fantastic venue in downtown Fort Worth, TX. She offered me a free 10 x 10 booth this weekend if I would donate an item for a raffle. Here are a few more latest projects...

I'm gonna recoup my expenses from 1st week of doing these. Posted pics on a local online site and have a few custom orders already. The "Time In A Saddle" sign is 18in x 24in. I'm calling these the Joe Jessup series. Joe was my college roommate and is a published author of an incredible western...

This is my 1st couple days output in my new backyard shop building. After nearly 30 years away from full time hand lettering, I didn't do myself any favors starting back in with these tiny letter interior decor signs! Recreating the early days of commercial speed layouts, nothing labored over...

Getting back into full time sign painting is proving to be a blast. I have a few kinks to work out in my methodology however. This morning I coated out several small panels. I had a round one that I coated out white with enamel paint. It seemed to me the logical place to lay it was on my round...

I guess you didn't see my last question on the Roland setup thread. I got it running after rereading every comment you ever made about it. Only have one lingering problem. I have the switch set for Sheet Loading. Every time I try to run a pattern the machine scrolls my paper way out to the end...

Last year we bought a new house on an acre of land way out in the country in Texas in the middle of horse country. Three fourths of the vehicles going down my road are pickup trucks and half of them have a horse trailer behind them. I have the greatest neighbors ever. We have a real Texas BBQ a...

I recently learned on Facebook about the demise of a friend I hadn't seen in over thirty years. The story contained a link to an article about him in New Jersey Monthly magazine. His name was Matthew Bonaduce McGrath who lived in Verona, New Jersey. Years ago he followed me around like a puppy...

I have searched all old posts about Roland PNC 950 driver download sites. None of them are active anymore. Old Paint posted one a long time ago and of course it is the only one I can't find. Joe, if you see this, do you still have that link?

hey bob, if you still frequent this place I need you to email me at davidkellems@gmail.com. I have a letter I tried to send you but you must have a new email address since our last correspondence. Thanks.

Mikey... I lost my contact info for you in a total computer crash. I have something I need to discuss with you about your desire to learn hand lettering from a while back. Since I don't frequent this forum anymore, email me at: davidkellems@gmail.com. Thanks. I think you might be interested in...