I found this in the Adobe Forums: Unable to save file to previous Illustrator version (Illustrator CS) Issue You're unable to save an Adobe Illustrator CS file to a previous Illustrator version. Detail The Save As Type menu (Windows) or the Format menu (Mac OS ) in the Save As dialog box doesn't con...

I've had a few emails from someone using Illustrator CS, but they are having trouble saving Illustrator CS files in Version 6 or Version 3. I've suggested everything I know, but I am only using Illustrator 10 and have not moved up to Illustrator CS (11). So, I guess I am asking this question for the...

http://www.cad-red.com/mt2/oil.html I found the page above doing a Google search. Way back when I was in college, I got to spend some time with an old sign painter that did a lot of Coca Cola walls for the convenience stores in the area. Jim Wade swore by Stand Oil, vs regular Linseed Oil. Stand oi...

Hi Mark, No problem on the post at all! The focus of this Forum certainly encompasses the Faux Antique Sign category, so feel free to come here and post some of your nice work and include any pertinent information about the project. Normally, a project like that will generate some discussion and usu...

Hey Mark, Politely speaking, instead of coming to this board trying to pull people away from it, I'd hope you would come here occasioally and "share" your information and techniques. This is a very open bulletin board and we don't mind announcements of other cool sites, but I plead constan...

http://www.theletterheads.com/lhparts/crossroadsgold.html Here's another short clip of a guy pounding little strips of gold into gold leaf. This came Charles Karault's Sunday morning Crossroads show from about 1983. Someone told me who the old guy was, but it has been too long and I didn't write it...

http://www.theletterheads.com/brassell/johnbw.jpg http://www.theletterheads.com/brassell/bookcover.jpg Donny Pavolini, of Coker Sign Studio in Pearl, Mississippi just made a post at Letterville about the passing of Big John Brassell. Donny says he died of an aortic-aneurysm. Wow! That is a shocker ...

Hi Raymond, Rick and Lola stayed around a few days after the Totem Head meeting, along with the SignCraft brothers. SC rented a van on Monday or Tuesday and we made one of those 375 mile figure 8 marathon tours through Yellowstone. The video clip was taken in the morning of the next day. Rick and Lo...

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the vote of confidence! Over the past year or so, I have been investing in Digital video production "equipment", so it is nice to finally get some of it on line. Since the original post earlier today, I just added the other two clips. Unfortunately, the audio and video ...

http://www.theletterheads.com/glawson/glawsonangelpour.html http://www.theletterheads.com/glawson/glawsonangelspray.html http://www.theletterheads.com/glawson/glawsonangelscreen.html Hi all, Back in 1990, Rick and Lola came out to Jackson Hole for our TotemHeads Art Camp. He stayed an extra day or ...

Hi Carol, I don't care much for the personal message system, but it works. I like to click on "eMail" in the box just under any post. That will bring up a blank email box and makes it easy to send a private note to anyone on the Forum (assuming you are already logged in) We made several si...

http://www.theletterheads.com/signphotos/gluechipfinished.jpg http://www.theletterheads.com/signphotos/gluechipsc.jpg http://www.signcraft.com/GlueChipped.pdf I found a bunch of old step by step photos from an old SC article. When I searched around on their site, I see it is now available as a PDF ...

Hi all, About a year ago, I started trying to figure out how to work with digital video, including making DVD demo disks for Tyler and his skateboarding endeavors. Besides the family DVD projects, transferring VHS and Hi8 tapes to DVD, I have been trying to find a bunch of old tapes having some inte...

http://www.theletterheads.com/parrish/videoclipimage.jpg If you were to ask Steven Parrish why he did business with banks, he would tell you. Click the link below to visit a new page. http://www.theletterheads.com/lhparts/parrishwhybanks.html The clip is about 2 megs and will take a while to load u...

http://www.theletterheads.com/signphotos/saraboyle.jpg I found this stack of photos the other day. Some will recognize the sign at the top from an article I did for SC a long, long time ago. The others are from photos we found while traveling around. One was only a few blocks from Rick Glawson's pl...

Hi Raymond, I keep mentioning that box of Beta Max tapes. They contain some little short clips of videos with people like Oatis, Parrish, Weber, and even myself just before the Oklahoma Bash. I've spent part of the last year trying to learn a little about making DVDs using captured video off our dig...

http://www.theletterheads.com/parrish/statesecuritysteven400.jpg This photo fell out of a pile of photos today, seeming to want to be displayed. This is a photo of Steven Parrish in front of a bank sign. He looks a little younger than when most of us knew him. For more photos of Steven Parrish and ...

http://www.theletterheads.com/signphotos/zanetti1.jpg Still looking for those pesky Beta Max tapes....! I ran across this photo of Al Zanetti (the one on the right), lettering a couple of elephants for a TV commercial. It was in Signs of the Times a long time ago. I'd estimate the photo being from ...

http://www.theletterheads.com/cunningham/van.jpg http://www.theletterheads.com/cunningham/sailing.jpg http://www.theletterheads.com/cunningham/heirloom.jpg http://www.theletterheads.com/cunningham/clubhouse.jpg I was digging around looking for those pesky Beta Max tapes and found an old notebook wi...

Small update:
Wade Swormstedt, the editor at ST, just gave me the official "thumbs up" to use the four pages.

Thanks, Signs of the Times!

Mike Jackson

Hi Raymond, Yes, they did a great job compiling all the meetings onto an interesting little chart. It would be easy to get a date or two wrong. I see the meeting listed we called Totem Heads. It was an extension of one of Noel Weber's "Art Camp" concepts we had attended a few months earlie...

Hi Letterheads / Hand Lettering Forum Readers, Tonight I was digging around looking for some old Beta Max tapes. They are around here somewhere. While looking, I found a commerative little booklet put out by Signs of the Times for the 1993 Waco, TX International Meeting. Actually, the feature sectio...

Catherine and all, I know we brushed the red and blue stripes on the barber pole. I can't remember now for certain, but I think I made a screen for the red panel so we could do all 14 at one time, quickly. Then again, I might have masked over the thicker black edges of the panel and airbrushed the r...

Roderick, Some programs like Omega offer a check box that will automatically "contour" or weld the offset outlines at the same time it outlines them. I don't recall that command in Illustrator, but there is a Weld command that does basically the same thing. This highlights one of those sub...

http://www.goldenstudios.com/family/backdeck04.jpg I snapped this shot out the back door on Christmas morning. Unlike the winter storm we are having right now with 30 mph winds, this one dropped snow with no wind and it piled up on everything. I think this one was around 16", all basically fal...

http://www.goldenstudios.com/glassart/autolivery500.jpg John, as always, I suggest doing sample swatches on scrap glass before committing an unexplored technique to a finish piece. We did lots of them before the two projects here. Arterial Red is really Naz Dar scarlet red screen ink (9700, I think...

Doug,
We use black charcoal powder in a Hand-See box, along with another Hand-See box with spanish whiting or talc. We usually have an old t-shirt filled with blue chalk line powder. On occasions, we use rouge or cerrium oxide.

Mike Jackson

http://www.theletterheads.com/parrish/verticalscreen.jpg These two photos were taken by Joe Crumley at the Oklahoma Bash in 1982. I watched him screen vertically several times, but unfortunately, I never documented the entire process with photos. I can generally describe the process, though I think...

Tod,
Looks great! Congratulations on seeing at least part of your dream come to life.

Mike Jackson

John, When I started in 1973, I purchased two subscriptions to ST. I cut one up and then kept one in a file cabinet. After 30 years, I pretty much gave up on the duplicates and put most of them in the recycle bin, keeping the stuff I cut out for the morgue. As far as I am concerned, the only ones th...