Hello Doug, Just read your article about trimming brushes, DON'T, just use them as much as you can they will break in . On the subject of keeping the flat edge, way back in the 50's here in England there was a firm called The Devonshire School of Lettering, they used to produce a sable writer with a...

How I envy you guys over there, you seem to have a lot more free rein than we do. Here we get something as follows, guy wants a van done, what do you want on it ? he "JOE BLOGGS-BUILDER-PHONE NO." 3 lines 1 colour, nothing fancy. Whoopee doo, not exactly exciting is it, trying to talk them...

Hello Danny, I don't have the book Signwork but have read it, not bad. I have quite a few photo's of work I've done,nothing digital, I would have to scan them and then e-mail them. I'm an oldtimer (66) and although I have 3 puters 2 cameras and a scanner still not fully conversant with them at the m...

At the risk of sounding a bit pompous, here's another little tip aimed
at the newcomers to the craft.
Learn to do the job properly, I know time is money and we all want to
get on, but until you can do the job right-you won't know how to cut
corners

Here's a tip some of you may know about, others may not; Don't back up large areas of glass with black. I was asked to gold leaf a window for a funeral parlour back in the 60's, and back up the whole window with black 15ftx8ft, which I did and the job looked pretty smart, then came the summer and it...

Happy Easter to you all, On the subject of books, I have in my possession the following: * Professional Ticket Writing. (1934) *The Modern Signwriter. (1953) *The Art and Craft of Signwriting.(1889) *Signwritten Art. (1989) and 2 books affiliated to our craft: *Narrow Boat Painting. *Paint Roses and...

Hello- to all you signwriters across the big pond, I've been painting signs since 1952,straight after 3 years at art school,(I think I'm getting the hang of it now). All my work is hand painted, don't touch vinyl (can't stand the stuff) I do mainly vehicles,pub signs and gold leaf windows, I'll writ...