Cholesterol! You don't have to eliminate meat and become a'veggie'! My Doc put me on Zetia to lower my Cholesterol and went from 300+ to 260, I then eliminated butter ansd such; instead I use pure olive oil for cooking and Extra Virgin on salads and veggies. Even tho i have bacon and eggs for breakf...

I used to buy my MDO from Royal Plylwood and ALWAYS specified that I wanted the sign grade. Since Commercal Sign Supply opened here in Long Beach, I buy from them, usually prepainted. They did try one lot of factory preprimed MDO, and it turned out to be a disaster, many, many failures. The 'big box...

In the pic..it was easy to line up the letters due to the horizontal ribs on the building. Otherwise, those old boys would have used a chalk line to snap the top and bottoms. It would have been laid out with a yardstick with a 3:5 or 3:6 ratio (WxH). Keerning was easy.... same as the stroke. Example...

I don't know about conscious use o a brush or quill....but after 38 years of full time in this biz...I still don't own a plotter!

In my younger days, i never used a mahl stick. Now in my 'senior days' I sometimes use the shaft of a golf club.

It is light, stong and has a great grip!