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I received this by email.... Hello friends, I am looking for a traditional sign painter in the Washington DC area. We have a historic public market that has continuously operated since the early 1880s, when it was established. The inside merchants are looking for a traditional sign painter to do the...

I can help! There's a bit of activity behind the scenes here. The Denver Letterheads helped pay for this site for quite a few years, but their bank account finally went to $0. I have been busy with my photography and touring business and was having trouble coming up with the time and money to keep t...

Hi all, The Denver Letterheads exhausted their treasury last year, so we are on our own again. I have been the primary administrator on this site for 14 years and Danny Baronian has been helping in the background (a lot). We are in the process of handing the reins to Danny, including setting up the ...

John, the old Colortones booklet was different than a PMS booklet. Colortones included paint mixing formulas to match PMS colors. We had one at the old shop, but I am sure it stayed in a drawer when we sold the shop 22 years ago!

Forums like this one are perfect for storing a wealth of information. Unlike some of the social media sites, the information is still available to anyone interested it, and by adding a post into the thread, it returns to the main page. I would encourage anyone to resurrect any old post that interest...

Craig,
You should be able to chip small areas with no problems...easily down to area as small as your fingernails.

This page might help:
http://theletterheads.com/2014/04/18/gl ... formation/

It's always fun to see the old posts come back to the front page. Actually, I like NOT seeing my name on the forum quite so much because that means others are posting a lot. Janice, there are quite a few lady sign makers around. I hope you are the catalyst that helps them get involved. Mike Jackson

Hi Doug,
Mike Stevens was there, but the person you are probably talking about did caricatures. Somewhere in all of my stuff, I have a card with signatures from the event.

I'd like to think this is April 1st and this is an April Fool's Joke!

Maybe Doug will now have more time and will fill this Forum with photos of his work, tips, techniques, and so forth.

This new version of the Hand Lettering Forum works like the previous version.

Just type in a word in the search box and hit the magnifying glass icon.

Try searching Angel Gild !

Mike Jackson

Full sized photos from a digital camera or iPhone are way too large for the web and must be resized. The phpBB software does not automatically resize them like Facebook. I n the earlier version of this Forum, we had the maximum file size limited to 750 pixels. I increased it recently to closer to 20...

Alan, thanks for posting these photos. (You'll note that the images will post in the orientation you stored them on your computer) My favorite image is the Air Conditioned bowling alley sign. The person that painted it was very good with a brush. You can tell it was just an everyday sign for him, bu...

Hi Janice, Wow! That's an ambitious project for someone learning! It sounds like you are doing a lot of tests, and if I hadn't read that, it would have been my suggestion. You mentioned using some vinyl in the project. You'll need to be careful because paint usually peels off vinyl over time. In oth...

Very nice!

And...thanks for posting the photo. Keep 'em coming!

Robert...that's a really good question and I will be anxious to read what others say. Personally, I wouldn't use it and would opt for the tried and true oil sizes.

As of today, there are 70 pages of posts with 50 on a page on the Hand Lettering Forum. Try clicking on page 70, then page 69 and find an old post that interests you. If you see something, add to the comments and it will bump that old post all the way to the front page. Here's one from 2004...

Okay folks! With the support of the Denver Letterheads and several readers, we've been able to pay for the site for the rest of 2017 and pay a php developer to move the Hand Lettering Forum to the same server as www.TheLetterheads.com . We are still working on to make the registration captcha more "...

GoldRuchCigars1400.jpg I made two or three of these panels and sent one to one of the Conclaves. One of them hangs on my office wall. Today, I was cleaning the sensors on my camera and did a few test shots. The glass piece made a good subject. It was terribly skewed—a result of me snapping the shot...

Conclave 2000 2003-03-16-030751.jpg 2003-03-14-185220.jpg 2003-03-14-184725.jpg 2000-02-13-151506.jpg 2000-02-12-154648.jpg 2000-02-12-154636.jpg 2000-02-12-144701.jpg 2000-02-12-144538.jpg 2000-02-12-114155.jpg 2000-02-12-111453.jpg 2000-02-12-110611.jpg 2000-02-11-174132.jpg 2000-02-11-153801.jpg ...

Rick Glawson and Esoteric Sign Supply 2003-03-16-031255.jpg 2003-03-16-031215.jpg 2003-03-16-031209.jpg 2003-03-16-031152.jpg 2003-03-11-052136.jpg 2003-03-11-051857.jpg 2003-03-11-051724.jpg 2003-03-11-051646.jpg 2000-07-14-203717.jpg 2000-02-13-141305.jpg 2000-02-11-135904.jpg 2000-02-11-111223.jp...

Rick Glawson's California Conclave 2000 1999-01-01-070000.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-4.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-5.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-6.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-7.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-9.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-14.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-16.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-17.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-20.JPG 1999-01-01-070000-...

Neville, Until about 1982 or so, no one had much access to fonts of any kind, much less the ability to digitize our own artwork. If there is a piece of glass with a remaining image, you can put a piece of paper over it and rub across it with a crayon or graphite stick (make a rubbing). It will give ...

Chris, The first thing I would question is how well you scrubbed the glass before beginning your project? No telling what kind of silicones, oils, and chemicals are in over the counter cleaners, like Windex. In the old days, Bon-Ami might have been enough, but I wonder if a quick rub with acetone an...

Darla and I hosted a couple of Art Camps here in Jackson Hole. On the Totemheads meet, we divided up a timber and each person or team carved a portion. Artcamp1990.jpg ArtcampTotemheadsAug1990.jpg ArtcampTotemheads2Aug1990.jpg If you have photos from this meet, post them here. If you have photos fro...

I found a few scans from the Oklahoma Bash. Maybe I can scan a few more someday soon.
Please add your Oklahoma Bash photos to this post!

Hi Vance, The phpBB was updated to the newest version, which should mean we won't need to pay to have it updated again for a while. The down side to the new update is there are very few available templates yet. Ryan picked the one he could find that was the closest to what we had on the old server. ...

Hi Andrew, Thanks for making the post...and your comments prompted me to adjust the settings for attachments. It can now handle a full meg file, where before the default size was something like 257k. This board is brand new, software wise anyway, so it might take a few days to find and fix issues li...

I believe these are photos taken by Danny Baronian at the first Conclave after Rick Glawson's passing. The photos filenames indicate the year was 2001.

https://www.designcuts.com/product/marble-textures/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Freebie+Friday%3A+Marble+Textures+From+Julia+Dreams&utm_campaign=170217_FreebieFriday_Feb17th2017 I've purchased a few packages from Design Cuts, once on their lists, I get offers each week fo...

This site started as an alternative to other similar forums where social chit-chat overwhelmed the "sign making message". Over the years, we have always asked people to stay on topic, and if you were to scroll through the posts, you can see that people have been doing just that! I have always been i...