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Hi..my name is Joey and I'm a signguy

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signguy17

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I have a sponsor...Gino (that just broke about 12 steps didn't it!)

I am in Southeast Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay and I handletter about 250 commercial fishing boats a year and about 150 pleasure boats I letter in vinyl. Plus I do alot of real estate and sandblasted signs and vehicle lettering...a lot of fleet work.

I was a commercial fisherman for 25 years and the guy that lettered our boats dropped dead of a heart attack and I always thought I could do it so I taught myself how to do it and that was 19 years ago. But I did it as a side job then while I still worked on the water but in 1999 I was lettering a buddies boat and tried to reach one last letter and I fell off the ladder....and now I'm a full time signguy....and I love it!

Everyday is different and I have to be mobile to letter the boats in the boatyards and marinas so, most of the time, I'm never in the same place for long. I have a 2500 sq ft shop behind my house and a stepvan that I use as my mobile sign shop.

Look forward to alot of info swapping and good natured ribbing....don't bring it if you can't handle it!
 
Replicator

Replicator

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Glad to have you aboard joey . . . It's good that you can fall back on your sponsor Gino if you relapse . . . !
 
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signguy17

New Member
Its not good when your sponsor is a liability......but we have a cousin Guido Sarducci so don't mess with us....you know what I'm sayin'?
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Who ?????????​



:Welcome: from PA....................


And NO, Roland doesn't know about this place and I think we should keep it that way. LOL
 
skyhigh

skyhigh

New Member
you were a commercial fisherman for 25 years...you know Gino, & your cousin is Guido Sarducci???

Something smells fishy...

Welcome aboard 17 (welcome aboard...fisherman....I crack me up.)
 
SignosaurusRex

SignosaurusRex

Active Member
Welcome Aboard! Good to have another brush man on ship.:thumb: Lettering the fishing boats can be a lot of fun or a pure hell. I miss the fun ones a lot.
 
Samm

Samm

New Member
One boat I brushed, was on a hardstand.

I overstepped the flybridge and wound up 5 metres down on concrete, with my right leg jammed in a plastic chair...the guys who ran to help just pulled the chair off, not taking into consideration the fact that it was in my leg like a fish hook...have a calflong scar that is here to stay....

Nonetheless, never done a boat on a hardstand again.

Pure Hell.
 
OldPaint

OldPaint

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as the "other" EYE-TALIAN here....you part a ginos family you part a mine.....DONTWORRYBOUTIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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