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This is an interactive Bulletin Board on the topics of Sign making, design, fabrication, History, old Books and of coarse Letterheads, Keepers of the craft. The Hand Lettering Forum features links to resources, sign art history, techniques, and artists profiles. Learn more about Letterheads at https://theletterheads.com. Below you'll see Mchat has been added as a live communication portal for trial, and the Main forum Links are listed below.
This is an interactive Bulletin Board on the topics of Sign making, design, fabrication, History, old Books and of coarse Letterheads, Keepers of the craft. The Hand Lettering Forum features links to resources, sign art history, techniques, and artists profiles. Learn more about Letterheads at https://theletterheads.com. Below you'll see Mchat has been added as a live communication portal for trial, and the Main forum Links are listed below.
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- Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:57 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Times, are they a changin'?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8650
Hi guys! I find myself doing these polished photoshop renderings more and more these days. Of course, those are are for nice jobs that we have in the bag. I was going through stuff in our recent move to the new studio and found some old pencil sketches. They sure had character even though they weren...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: corafoam
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15138
corafoam
Doug, we've been using their 20# for about a year and love it. The problem for us is availability. We have to buy it direct and in big quantity to get it here from Houston. That gets expensive. They are not having much success getting suppliers to stock it. I think if this product is worth using, we...
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:33 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Taos Blue
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4915
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Have Stabilo pencils changed?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6934
- Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Prevail Spray power unit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3245
- Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Alan Johnson.....Hardner in your size?????
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7224
Since this is an automotive application, I'm sure the reason for the hardener is to toughen the size and make it compatable with the clears used on top of the gold job. Plus you can get on it faster with the gild. Since Alan spun the gold, he needed an aggressive size base under it also. This allows...
- Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:03 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Chapman & Smith...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5900
- Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:02 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: A Packrat's Lament
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9518
- Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:42 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Signmaking 101: Repeating a sandblasted symetrical design
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7198
Another way to do this is to draw half of the design, fold the pattern at the center line and pounce through both sides. Unfold and you have a repeat or symetrical pattern. I still do this all the time. You can get creative and end up with some interesting shapes and panels by drawing only a part of...