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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.
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- Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:00 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: A different kind of lettering
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6514
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:42 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Just Checking In
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1938
Re: Just Checking In
Welcome Simon!
I've found this art & craft fascinating for the last dozen years or so.
There's probably not a question you could ask that the answer isn't already on here.
Keep in mind to do a search of the older posts, there's a ton of information on here.
Good luck, heh?...
I've found this art & craft fascinating for the last dozen years or so.
There's probably not a question you could ask that the answer isn't already on here.
Keep in mind to do a search of the older posts, there's a ton of information on here.
Good luck, heh?...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
It was right there on the easel, turn around and take a look at it! Good thing it wasn't a snake...woulda bit ya like a rattlesnake or sumthin'. It's at 4:50 of Ron's video he posted in "Dead Man 2012" post. By the time Somethin' in Dunfries rolled around, I had the acid embossing complete...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:03 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
Well, I ain't much of a printer....I mean, I never have been. I typically approach a project figuring out how I can execute it without printing. Often times I define various areas via a computer, or handcut stencil, for acid etching, glue chipping, or sandcarving and such. This stencil work leaves a...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:42 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
Ain't no glue chippin'!
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:04 am
- Forum: Hand Lettering Techniques and Step by Steps
- Topic: "ageing" letters on glass
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10928
Re: "ageing" letters on glass
http://www.walljewelry.com/post/LosDeadmanweb.jpg The background panel around "Deadmen" is 12K white gold, gilded with beer size. It yields a mottled matte finish, rather than the uniform finish that would be achieved water gilding over varnish or using surface gold size. http://walljewel...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:04 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: "ageing" letters on glass
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5401
Re: "ageing" letters on glass
http://www.walljewelry.com/post/LosDeadmanweb.jpg The background panel around "Deadmen" is 12K white gold, gilded with beer size. It yields a mottled matte finish, rather than the uniform finish that would be achieved water gilding over varnish or using surface gold size. http://walljewel...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
Why, no. Its... Its not printed, Robert. Well, that's good. I mean that's good to know. Otherwise, you'd been thinking wrong. We wouldn't want to do that. I took an enlarged, reversed, color copy and registered it to the face of the glass, I then handpainted the whole darn thing....musta mixed forty...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:10 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
Good eyes...I don't even see the illustration signature you're talking about!
And, yes, I did leave off the printers signature at the bottom...
but what I was thinking was the letter center ornaments on G.A.Schwarz...
I just went with a plain blended color...gettin' lazy I guess....
Aho!
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And, yes, I did leave off the printers signature at the bottom...
but what I was thinking was the letter center ornaments on G.A.Schwarz...
I just went with a plain blended color...gettin' lazy I guess....
Aho!
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- Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:20 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
Upon close inspection, the reference artwork that was supplied was very loose, more like a hand drawing, than a refined lithograph. Perhaps when this art was created, that's all they could afford, or needed for their particular application. After weighing my options on how to transfer this image to ...
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:13 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
http://www.walljewelry.com/post/GASdetail1web.jpg http://www.walljewelry.com/post/GASdetail1Bweb.jpg The G.A.Schwarz text is 23K water gild into face up acid embossed outlines, with blended japan color letter centers, with a handpainted split shade. http://www.walljewelry.com/post/GASdetail4web.jpg...
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
http://www.walljewelry.com/post/GAScorner.jpg The outer embossed border line was created via face down acid embossing. The inner embossed border line was created via face up acid embossing. I trust you can see the difference in these two techniques. Both have been water gilded 23K, then outined to ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:02 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
Re: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
I surely can....
The finished framed piece is 26" x 36",
I took right around 70 hours, over 3 months.
Like Jenco says, "Once you get that deposit check,
there's no reason to hurry."
It was a pretty day for makin' things right!
-Aho!
The finished framed piece is 26" x 36",
I took right around 70 hours, over 3 months.
Like Jenco says, "Once you get that deposit check,
there's no reason to hurry."
It was a pretty day for makin' things right!
-Aho!
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:40 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Color Lithography
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3087
Color Lithography
Found this film on the Huntington Library's collection of old lithography pieces.
http://www.huntington.org/colorexplosion/index.html
http://www.huntington.org/colorexplosion/index.html
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:39 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29578
G.A.Schwarz, Toys & Fancy Goods
I just finished up this request to replicate this old
victorian era trade card into a reverse glass sign.
Came out pretty good, truth be told.
-Aho!
victorian era trade card into a reverse glass sign.
Came out pretty good, truth be told.
-Aho!
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:54 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
Nice gildin'!....Very nice gildin'!
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- Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Lettering noob looking for pointers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4711
Re: Lettering noob looking for pointers
Hi Justin- I've taken a liking to these, Scharff Sign Painting Brushes Probably the most common one used for singal stroke lettering would be the quill, I prefer the grey quills over the brown quills, but that's just a matter of personal preference. There are also liners and stripers for various oth...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:30 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
Finished up this little ditty...
Nice antique frame, executed on a really old piece of glass!
Aho!
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Nice antique frame, executed on a really old piece of glass!
Aho!
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- Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
Button it up! http://www.walljewelry.com/post/LosDeadmanweb.jpg Finished up this little side project we did in Dunfries. Thanks to one Mr. Stubby Preston Esq. for the artwork, screen acquisition, and pullin' the squeegee...under direction of Mr. Dick-in-son, of course. Seems everyone learned someth...
- Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:17 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
I figured I'd saved Jenco's career from a life of vinyl... ... and given him another chance with hand letterin'. At least for the foreseeable future. As for the unforeseeable... ... well, it’s out there waiting for him. Jenco headed straight into the setting sun and drove west at an easy pace. It wa...
- Fri Aug 03, 2012 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: On wall
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4006
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:41 pm
- Forum: Letterhead Events
- Topic: Deadman Meet 2012
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13368
Re: Deadman Meet 2012
I'm wrappin' up my "Somethin' in Dunfries" piece,
and pretty soon I'll be postin' it...
Best get some sleep.
-Aho!
and pretty soon I'll be postin' it...
Best get some sleep.
-Aho!
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:41 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Deadman Meet 2012
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11664
Re: Deadman Meet 2012
I'm wrappin' up my "Somethin' in Dunfries" piece,
and pretty soon I'll be postin' it...
Best get some sleep.
-Aho!
and pretty soon I'll be postin' it...
Best get some sleep.
-Aho!
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
We don't know them boys yer lookin' for.
We're just weary gilders...
Well, the Dead Man gang has come and left...
and all we have now is this little video Ron Percell
put together...
Town of Machine
AHO!
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We're just weary gilders...
Well, the Dead Man gang has come and left...
and all we have now is this little video Ron Percell
put together...
Town of Machine
AHO!
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- Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
HEY! Where ya goin'? You forgot the scorecard!
YOU FORGOT THE SCORECARD!!
CLEAR A PATH... I'M GOIN' HOME!
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- Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
The best gilder is John Dickinson.
He is a tipless gilder, 23 double X,
and paint mask don’t enter into his thinking.
He loves to pull a squeegee.
Where can I find this, "Dickinson".
Dunfries, I recon....
He is a tipless gilder, 23 double X,
and paint mask don’t enter into his thinking.
He loves to pull a squeegee.
Where can I find this, "Dickinson".
Dunfries, I recon....
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: hand lettering... still keeps on giving
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2754
Re: hand lettering... still keeps on giving
By steak, you'd mean, steak and peanut butter & jelly?
Nice work, Jenco....
Could a fella have a steak with ya on the 21st?
...but I don't know....
Nice work, Jenco....
Could a fella have a steak with ya on the 21st?
...but I don't know....
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:30 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2158311
Re: Original Dead Men
Now the slappers I can forgive on the basis
of pure "D" stupid.... But YOU!
You otta have enough of this mahl stick took
to your back to lay a lick of sense into that
vinyl consumed maggot mind!
You & your worm-rot brained Dead Man brothers!
...okay....
.
of pure "D" stupid.... But YOU!
You otta have enough of this mahl stick took
to your back to lay a lick of sense into that
vinyl consumed maggot mind!
You & your worm-rot brained Dead Man brothers!
...okay....
.
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:29 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Shading
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5167
Re: Shading
The amber color is airbrush faded about 5" down in the top section of the clear center panel, the rest of the panel is left clear glass, with the smalt panel is behind it. Yes, the smalt is adhered to a masonite hardboard panel. Some more information can be found here: Blended Letter Shades Ble...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:42 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Shading
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5167
Re: Shading
Indeed it is... Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what you're looking at in a photo. The white background is actually a white glass smalt product called "Diamond Dust", that I got over at Michael's Craft Store. It's adhered to the face of a masonite panel stood off of the glass by about ...