I started with paraffin oil down South, then lard oil up here, then that disappeared...maybe motor oil?? for a time, then neatsfoot oil, but found it dried up to soon (not using brushes often enough??) use Walldog OIl brush preservative now, with a can of Percells Lard Oil at the ready when the WD r...

I tried this email....it bounced back...unknown...?

would the real James Kelly please stand up...

bump, this baggie of abalone is drivin' me crazy....

hoping for another Boise trip in April,May,June July..'10??

Roderick, so you paint the black outline(glass gilders backup from Letterhead supply?) and then maroon 1shot(hardner?) and then frogjuice...what method? i have never used the Juice :roll: :roll: but i've had a little baggie of the abalone chips for quite awhile, never knew how to deal with it, it wa...

Welcome Jean Do! from the Westcoast of Canada... obviously, you enjoy The Joy of the BRUSH in your hand!!

John

Mr. Studden...i'd hang onto that Electro.... you might want to get into the Very Profitable Low Teck Tattoo business
(see www.economytattoo.org)

well, Bobbie, you don't want to push that "painless" to much...just in case the patient passes out!!
and the Abalone Tooth, pretty nice smile you'd have with one of those!! goad to see you're "back at it"...the Brush....Best Medicine!!

John

Hi Ron, I'm a bit FURTHER down/up the coast.... in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I can vouch for Mr. Osborne, he is a Real Signwriter,he arranged a purchase of Handover Brushes with me in '03, and caught up with him In Wales at David Kynstons's Meet in '07... I so much envy/admire you UK sign...

beauty work, all
not anything to add, cept, "Hi Geet", and, always wonder about that backslant lettering??

seep safe

John

beauty work, all
not anything to add, cept, "Hi Geet", and, always wonder about that backslant lettering??

seep safe

John

Sean, regarding the Letterhead Directory...at the '06 Dixie Meet in Suwanee, Georgia (Sonny Franks and his pal (insert mind gap..it'll come to me...in a day or 4...) David Butler & Ms. Butler were taking names and taking pictures...?? with the intention of creating a Letterhead Directory...so's ...

That kind of thing is Gold, Kelly! thanks for posting.

John

Beautiful, Scarlett!! ah, to be on the Canals... a wonderful way to travel, either on a boat, or walking/riding on the towpath!! Happy times lettering the boats!

John

snappers, this could be a world changer here in this place...

Howdy Wayne!!, i think you guys just like to climb all over buildings!! lol that first pic, the Church to the left...is that the one we met in front of in '03 to swap pounds for sables?? that same day, i visited a signwriter there...Derek, i believe. Hello to Paul, i esnoyed seeing you guys in Wales...

Well, mahl sticks...still using 2/3rds of the my original 3piece slip together aluminum one, c1963. Been lost and found many times, run over, too, but last year lost the end piece to the Ladner Slough whilst lettering a boat. Didn't have my digital aluminum magnet on a string with me, so, call me sh...

John, what is your choice for any thinning, usually done on the pallet from a sep. "thinner cup"
thanks.

John Lennig

Those transom pieces are Beautiful!! Thumbmnail...draw it full size, paint/gild/ect.
a work of Art!! thanks for posting

John

sure looks like a complete sign shop set-up! Nice place to play, Doug! )

John

Great news for you guys! Meeting Peter at David's Meet, he sure had a way with the brush & words
Wayne, you could play Good Signwriter/Bad Signwriter, and take the Show on the Road!!
Does he give a discount or just double the cost if you're a Lefty???

BTJohn

Hi Wayne! what a great job! how did you get into the "mood" when working on this oldie?? pint of ale and a case of cholora?? :roll: I've got some pics from our '03 trip to GB, of a similar Toll Road sign, and one from this years trip to Ironbridge. a replica and the original too! my, they ...

Hey Hedley, when you got the 1Shot from INKSplus...did you get any of his quills? the Kool Krimson?

John

Good Day, Hedley!
Just looked at your website again, and am looking forward to sitting down for a coffee and starting the lettering converstation!!
Hope things are progressing on the Home Front...last day before the kids go to school, eh?
hope to see you this week.

John

Hey Hedley, we'll get that, and someSublime Green too!

opps, living up to my Motto, Sorry KIMBERLY

Kemberly, what a Beauty, and the car is nice too there's people trying to look like him these days, but he was an Original!!

John

I was lettering a 140' converted Tug, working off a short extension ladder, base on a floating dock, on the Fraser river, ladder slipped down off support, bang!, i spin around in midair, end up landing,sitting,on rail, Just Missed splitting my head on post, never spilled paint, still had brush and p...

Hedley, Great! lettering is Fine! very cool illustration!

John

Charles, i would say basically the same thing as Billy Bob..it's about manipulating the hairs/pushing/pulling the paint around. The occasional times i have given lettering lessons, it's getting to know what the brush can do, oh yeah, you're Supposed to be in charge! :roll: the particular styles come...