Found another article...

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 94639ED7CF

There was a thread about this subject some time in the past. Dont know if it was here or on another board. Got me interested. Tried several things on aluminum screening. The closest I got to anything that was even mildly acceptable was to try it the following way. This after about 7-8 absolute failu...

This may get a little long. I only know how to tell long stories. My late Dad used to tell me that "If I ran at the bottom like a ran top, I wouldn't live a week." My journey is a mite different and much shorter. I'm 68 and until I was 60 Ididn't know squat about the sign business/professi...

I know this should be put in another thread, but for some reason I can't post to it.
Take a tour of this site. Especially the Rondstadt Catalog. Some very interestind signwriting on the wagons shown.

http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/ronstadt ... wagon.html

Mike, Didn't have to retype it. Pulled it off the web as a scanned page. Ran it through Omni Page OCR. The OCR program picked up quite a few and tried to correct some of the older 1809 spellings. I looked at the original scanned page, then at the corrected OCR page, and decided to leave the original...

Surface Gilding the 1809 way. Secrets Relative to the Art of Gilding Circa: 1809 The method of gilding with size, or oil. The gold leaves which are commonly used in gilding are of different sizes, as well as of various degrees of thickness. To gild on iron and other metals, the strongest and the pur...

Signboards brings up some nice ones. Also enter To Market, To market. (All media types) Brings up two parts of movie about outdoor advertising.

Kelly,
Thank you very much for that link....I think???? Have been downloading for hours...Terrific link...

Another scroll down for interesting stuff...

http://www.realpaints.com/products.htm

Scroll down through this site and you may find the raw materials to duplicate the varnishes of times gone by.

http://www.gemmary.com/restore.html

OK Mike you talked me into it...
Will do it this evening.

Roderick,
That is a fantastic find. Magnificently clean looking art. I'm heading back for a free sample.

Bill "Irish" Holohan

http://okuno-glass.com/index.htm

This site is a little difficult to navigate. Also the English is translated and a little stilted. Click through it all if you have time. Some informational gems hidden in the text. Wish I had a drying room like the one shown.

Another interesting find. Canadian Museum of Science and Industry has a very interesting collection of decalcomania (decalomania). Well illustrated and well written history of the technique.

http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/E ... strial.cfm

These searches, on the web, give me a very deep appreciation for how difficult it most have been for Rick Glawson early on in his research. No web as we know it today. No biblio.com or ebay to find/buy the books needed for that research. How steadfast and persistent he had to be. How many queries/vi...

Another great read...from my point of interest anyway...

http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/search/HG05_3.htm

Hope some enjoy...

I found it when doing a search for info on Brunswick Black mentioned in Callinghams book. I am building up a nice collection of early signwriting and lettering books. An enourmous amount of arcane language to decipher...So I search the web a lot. Glad you found the site interesting/helpful.

Another find that I hope may interest some of the sign/paint history buffs.

The recipes are quite interesting.

Scroll around...

http://realcolorwheel.com/paint1881.htm ... %20Varnish

I stumbled across this this evening. I am sure many know of this site already, but some lurkers may not. Well worth the time tou tour. Very nicely done.

http://www.airbrushmuseum.com/airbrush_museum.htm

Larry,
Old geezer back again with a comment. Having never been to Rick's store, I really am enjoying the unintended side peeks of the supplies and equipment around some of he pics.
Any pics of the store layout showing the supply shelves and counters?

Bill "Irish" Holohan

Larry,
Thanks for sharing the pics. I never had the chance to meet Rick or Lola or visit the store. All I can say is "Wow".

Russ, Thanks for the pics. Would love to have been there. I read an article in a 2003 Sign Builder mag that mentioned John Studden's loose leaf "tear and slap" method of applying loose leaf to glass. Tried it, but couldn't get it right. Your sequential pics of John doing his magic was like...

Larry,
Congratulations. Well deserved recognition for such a terrific piece.

Larry,
Congratulations. Well deserved recognition for such a terrific piece.

Roderick,
Thanks you and your spouse for that one. Really fine article and video. Nice to see Kent Smith got a mention. Wish I knew how to copy the video.

Bill "Irish" Holohan

Mike,
Thank you. I know it was probably a major inconvenience for you. I just have a h**l of time trying to upload pics.
The large "raw scan" was put in there for those who probably have better
photoshop skills than I do, and want to play with the original scan.

Thanks again.

OK Gents. The one I have was approx 2 inches x 3 inches at 400 dpi. I will rescan and enlarge to 5x7 at 300 dpi. Anyone that would like a copy, post your email or send your email to firemap1@aol.com

Ron,
I also have a pic pf C.J. Strong from a Daily's Show Card Writing Course. Large ad in the back of course book for Strong's Brushes and Supplies. Also with a Detroit School of Lettering tag.

Also sent you an email re: where to send file.

Pat, I came to the sign industry a little to late to ever develop into a true and well rounded signman. I also came to late to have the opportunity to meet Rick Glawson. I remember well the outpouring of sorrow and personal anguish at the loss of such a master researcher and expermenter. I spent day...