Nice Find Pat! It also may have been a Western Sand Blast Sign. Can you read the makers name at the bottom of the sign? It looks kinda like one in the Western Sand Blast Catalog...but it also looks like an R&E Sign. From the W.S.B. Catalog, The Page Title says... "Double-Sided Jewel Electri...

I fourth it! Me and another sign shop here in town used to play that game. Every time I would go for a visit, he would say how I lost another bid because I was too high...(the bid, not me). He got the jobs and I didn't...that's OK though, cause I did not do the type of work he did. He eventually wen...

Did they skip a step? Aren't you suppose to let the glue dry first, before you put it in the "low humidity" room. Or is the "low humidity" room really the "drying" room....where's the heated chipping room? Or the florescent light box? And I would never run my bare hands...

Oh Yeah!!, How much??

RMN

Has the Stained Glass Shop that blasted your piece, ever chipped glass on their own before? Or do they just do the Frosted Glass Blasting Only? I was thinking that there might be some excess oil in their air lines. Or...blasting with a grit finer than 220 does not give enough "tooth" for t...

Have you Chipped Glass Before? Sorry, had to ask. If so, did you do anything different with this project/process? Is the glass tempered? What was the grit size of the silicon carbide? What is the strength of your glue? Got any pictures of the dried glue on and off the glass, that you can post here? ...

You might want to give "Webroot" a try. It's been installed on my computer for 5 years now. Never had a problem, yet, (Knock on Wood). Updates daily, Scans System Automatically at time and date you specify. Runs in background and alerts you to bad web pages, viruses, emails, downloads, fil...

The following is another website statement on the subject of steampunk. Steampunk Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th c...

"Steampunk? Why, yes—the long-lived trend of combining the best of Victorian England with technological advances that didn't actually take place until a hundred years later." I saw the above statement on a fashion website. And it occurred to me that we letterheads have been doing this mix ...

Not Sure if this will work, but, you can give it a try.

http://www.peacocklabs.com/permalac.htm

And for silvering plastic and rubber, try wetting agent C-22, Scroll up the page a bit and you will see it.

http://www.peacocklabs.com/products.htm#chemicals

RMN

Long Life....Short Video...I like the gilding on the Bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWFfk4Db ... re=related


RMN

Ok, so now we know "What" they are...how about telling us "Who" did them, and the "When", "Where", " Why"....might even want to stick a "How" in there somewhere too.

RMN

The Cat's out of the bag....A clue....I'll bite, I believe the glass sign behind the Cat (tiger) is the new one. The one behind the Monkey is restored, and the one to the far right is all original.

Ok, so what do I win?

RMN

Hows about this for an guess....
http://www.lestroisgarcons.com/gallery/

Be sure to click on the "gallery" link...and then click on the glowing circles.

RMN

Stumbled upon this while doing some detective work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbV7loKp69s

Turn off the lights and watch this in the dark, Be sure to maximize the view when watching.

RMN

Nice work on your Treble Embossing.

Me thinks Erik will soon discover Glass Edge Lighting.

RMN

Joe,

Nice Work.

You got a permit to be fishin' for customers like that?

RMN

I submitted an Offer for $200.00. The shipping costs are $1,500.00. (Somebody has been drinking waaaayyyy too much Kool-Aid) But I told them I would pick it up, so no need for the overpriced shipping costs. Or I could have Pat pick it up for me, and then I would have some trade bait for a copy of th...

Brothers of the Brush, Keepers of the Craft,...and all the rest of you newbies, wannabes, etc.....Can you spare this brother a dime? I saw this on Ebay, and I figure if we pool our pennies and other loose change we can get this. http://cgi.ebay.com/antique-reverse-glass-sign-1880s-G-W-SCHMIDT-Whiske...

Lars, You might want to switch from talcum powder (which is white) to charcoal powder (which is black). You also might want to take some 120 or 180 light grit sand paper and sand the back of the pattern to open up the pounce holes. Doing that will allow more pounce powder to get through the holes. RMN

Vance, here is a link to some Corel YouTube Video's, I think this is the program and version you have, if not...look around on YouTube, or go to www.corel.com for some help.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PhotoVideoE ... N4ADGRcGWg

Let me know how this goes.

RMN

When one learns about priming and painting, one also learns about the variables in materials and drying times, not just by reading the labels, but also through experience. The more you do, the more you know. And it sounds like you know what you are doing. As you and I know, and as Kent has stated, t...

Stop it Jerry, you're making the rest of us look bad.

Fantastic work!

Please post pics of the completed work once they are installed.
Illuminated and Non-Illuminated.

RMN

Joe, it seems with each post you make, you give more details into your situation. From what I have read so far, you have a drying issue, and you read the labels on the can. And....you stack your boards to dry. Which may be one of the problems. Stacking boards delays the drying....not enough oxygen i...

What program, if any, are you using to edit your pictures? If you tell us, I or someone else here may be able to go through it with you step by step to see where the problem is you are having. I have several software photo editing programs here....Adobe, Corel, Kodak, Nikon, Fuji....and some others ...

I knew a retired sign painter that had the same problem you did Joe. He was one of the best sign painters I knew, A true old school sign man. Once in a while he would ask me questions on mixing and using paint. I would give him the answer, and he would swear I was Kent Smith. He marveled at the info...

Thanks Kent! You have refreshed my memory and enlightened those out there that are about to prime their first chunk of urethane. I, like you prefer to prime urethane with acrylic primers. But when it comes to MDO plywood, I still prefer the oil based primers. So Kent, tell me and the rest of us, whe...

Erik, Jim's customer is a signmaker/gilder, not the person buying the sign. Jim sells gold leaf, and other gilding related products to signmakers and gilders. So his "customers" are people doing the gilding of a sign, and then selling the sign to their client (the person who ordered the si...

Mark, Went looking at the Ooma site, as per your recommendation. Cost of the broadband Ooma telo hub is $250.00, transferring your existing phone number is $40.00...but, there's a yearly fee of $10.00. They pick up the first year...but after that you pay the $10.00 yearly fee. Small price to pay for...

Joe, Did you do two for $1,200? Or one each for $1,200? And how did you feel after you got paid for the first set of these? Did you feel like you made out, or did you feel you put too much time into these for the price. Maybe now's the time to increase the price to make up for any money you did not ...