I have been pinstriping for almost 50 years and have never seen anything like that. I do know that some of the old time painters mixed their pigments with linseed oil and white lead. Maybe Kent Smith would be able to shed some light on the subject since he is a second generation sign artist and the ...

Beautiful picture Mike ! MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and everyone else on the forum !

Having lived along the mexican border a large part of my life, most of the vehicle lettering I remember seeing was some sort of "Old English" and there were different flourishes on each one depending on the artist. Most also had a different color or shade brushed onto the lower portion of ...

For what it's worth, I did a back bar mirror for Jack Custeau in San Diego several years ago. The mirror shop that did the silvering suggested that we back up the gold and all the artwork with asphaltum. Everything was done by hand (no screen printing) so I had to double coat most of it. Kind of a p...

Awesome work ! Really great website too ! Very informative. Thanks for posting it.

The word STORES also has the unusual two directional shadow. I duplicated a piece several years ago to replace the broken original (which I still have). I thought the shadow to be quite unusual at the time and had not seen anything like it until now. The BRANDY sign is part of a three piece set whic...

I haven't worked on a mural project yet..........should be lots of fun !

Thanks for posting the great pictures.....I was not able to make it there so it was nice to see the pics.

PICTURES ?

I'm interested !

I don't know any better way to work on that kind of surface other than hand painting. I helps if the wood is sealed with something so the paint doesn't soak in. Even on the ends of the barrel the surface is usually not flat enough to screen print without doing a lot of touch up. How complex is the l...

There is no doubt that Glen's work is some of the best, but I don't understand coating the gold with size before the Sikkens varnish. I have been using various catalized polyurethanes ( House of Color and Lesinol ) with good results. I don't care too much for frog juice as it is not resistant to min...

I guess I better check this forum more often......then I wouldn't miss out in cool events like this...........

That type of primer is hard to get it to flow into pinholes or pores of a material like sign foam. You might try a squeege or maybe a foam brush which will force the primer into the pores. I have had similar problems when putting clear over epoxied carbon fiber.....sometime just use my finger to pus...

I wonder if Rick ever finished that cabinet, he was going to paint a cow pole vaulting over the moon on it somewhere......Bob Iverson helped with that too.

A lot of the old safes that I have seen and worked on, especially ones from Hall's and Diebold appear to be entirely hand painted, possibly using patterns, but the designs are not perfectly symetrical. I think that one artist may have done work for both companies as they are located in Cincinnati. I...