Sign Painters, We need your advice! For years we have used an exterior oil-base black chalkboard slating on exterior sidewalk signs, but the company (BLP Mobile Paints) tells us they have stopped making it. All other chalkboard paints like Rustoleum are water-base, and in our opinion, they are junk ...

Help! What can you use to hand letter on vinyl awnings? We used to get a pretreated enamel-receptive banner material so we could letter with one shot directly on the surface, but they don't make it any more. Are there some vinyl inks or paints that can be used directly without primers? We have a loc...

For about ten years a large iron cross that we gilded atop a local church has been exposed to the weather in New Orleans. We used LeFranc size on the recommendation of a New York supplier; we didn't varnish, it worked as it is supposed to and the job still looks great. So we continued to use LeFranc...

THANK YOU! I'm so grateful to know it's not just here. Sometimes when the humidity is high in New Orleans, it has taken two days for the background enamel (they tell me that One Shot and Chromatic Bulletin are the same company) to dry. I have had even more difficulty with the maroon or anything I mi...

HELP! I'm new to the Forum but I've been lettering for many years, so please forgive me if this question has been asked before. In my shop, Mystic Blue Signs, in New Orleans, we do mostly hand-painted signs, and have used One Shot most of the time. BUT lately it seems to be inconsistent, maybe even ...

Okay, I'll bite. If it's not in pencil and not a drawing, is it a diagram drawn in a computer program? In my shop (Mystic Blue Signs, New Orleans) we only hand letter so I'm not very good at discerning computer-generated graphics that look like hand-lettered... I'd like to know more about the worksh...