Eventhough this is your work, I would restrain as much as possible of actually restoring most of the signs. As James alread said it is almost impossible to match the same colours. During my study in Arthistory at the University I was traint by some of the best resaurators of the world and they norma...

Hello Guys nice stuff you made! When you visited Dave, I was a bit preoccupied. As I did not want to forget any details of the workshop I was a bit overconcentrated and not very up and jumping as usual. I love those big more, bglass pieces, sometimes less is ut in architectual surraoundings I think ...

Dave Smith's Goldleaf Workshop had everything I hoped for. We not only learnt the first basics, but almost all the techniques used into making an elaborate Victorian glass sign. Dave showed us some modern shortcuts using vinyl, but still did his best to keep the original "old handmade look"...

The map is turning out nice. It suprises me that there are still a lot of Letterheads that did not made a website. I can tell you that it is really worth the effort to make one! You can atrackt new business, use it as a catalog or information leaflet. If there are any other real Letterheads who want...

Just got home yesterday at 20:00 O 'Clock.
Put my piece on the couch and looked at it with some amacement.
Shall i post my experience here or put on a new topic?

A couple of years back Don Coplen sent me a google map with Letterheads on it, I'm not sure how to access it any more or if it even still exists, but there were a lot of names on it. That map seems to be gone Kelly. I wanted to know the geograffical density of the Letterheads and could not find any...

Hello everyone, Click on this link to find a Letterhead friend anywhere around the World! Just send me a private message and put your business on the map! Write down your adres (including your website if you have one) and i will upload you to the map. By the way... signing in the website adres of yo...

Impressed.
All that with just a few tools...
I have seen carvers who cary a display with 40 of them!

Joe, I can look at those pictures for hours! :D Nicely done. Short video's are always very easy uploaded on http://www.youtube.com . Just copy and post the link here. I allways that is the fasted way to upload and show movie clips. What happens with the knife if the letters go beyond 4"? Is the...

Looks great! Love this.
Wish you could teach me some more with photo's of the textual work of the Dragonfly.
Did you do those letters als with the knife (stop cut etc.) or did you use a V-shape (forgot the English word sorry) carving tool?

I hope I translated the former posts corectly.... We too have for years and years people who play around with word, powerpoint etc and they come with their homemade designs. Often it takes more time to prepare their design than to make our own design that flows gently out of the trained hart and min...

Hello you Ole'timers :wink: What about that meet in Athens Greece i think? I saw it in an isue of the amal magazine. How did that came around? It is of a special interest for me, because it was held in Europe and a lot of Americans did go there. How did that Greek guy came to know about you guys, ho...

Mike, I read about these points you mentioned here: Lots of work prior to the meet in organising, lots of time spended in preparing while no jobs are being done and regular clients have to wait, complaning that the fee to attend is too high and ofcourse the host running around and missing all the go...

Adobe premiere pro is great! You have the tools to be a professional!
I will not take anymore of your time;)

Raymond, I can get you some very good digizing software. The only thing is that you need to have enough workmemory on your hardrive and lots of working speed... The software is downloadable on the web and the serial is a present from me :wink: You can cut and edit scenes, make textual frames over th...

Raymond, When reading all the Amal magazines Jeff Lang had sended to me (About 15 or 20 years of isues to read), i really had the feeling that i have missed out a lot. I constantly thought: "Where was I?". I counted back the years and remembered that i, at that time, was not occupied with ...

Ha Mike! I do remember Beta max tapes! :D I even remember my dad filming us constantly with 8mm film. Even so, i asked him the same thing: "Did you ever made any photographs or films of your gilding or brush work on windows in the 60-thies?". His anwer: "Nope... film costed too much a...

On the Letterheads site http://www.theletterheads.com/lhparts/parrishkits.html Mike wrote: "Steven reported he put curtains or paper in front of a door or window for many years when doing his vertical screen process. He didn't want competitors, sneaky or otherwise, to see his techniques. After ...

Larry, You forgot to mention that we recently had an article written about you and I in a Dutch glass art magazine called Fjoezzz.In the article they used the photos of "La Azora" being worked on at the Conclave.Eric was kind enough to try and translate it into a very rough English.Maybe ...

Great memories there, Mr. Jackson. Brings back lots of telephone conversations....and unusual stories. Raymond, Do you have any moving pictures somewhere in a dusty shelf or shoebox? Mike, Did you have ever continued this digitizing of old video's? And is this clip in a higher resolution? Spoiled b...

Since i am unfortunate enough to miss some of the most important people in the 'Letterhead-scene' that have already passed away before my revelation in the crafts of glasswork, handlettering etc... I have an inmense lust and hungre to get to know all that has been passed and gone... Where are those ...

Clear and Simple Mike. See what you mean. I have looked at hundreds of designs on the web and i got the same feeling: "A lot looks the same". But still here, in Europe, the technique is 'new and not yet used'. So i want to give it a try, will outsource the sandblasting at a glass firm. Yes...

Mike, While there are still people blasting, it is more or less a passed trend. Redwood is hard to get and expensive, so I don't have a clue how people are pricing their work now. We haven't sandblasted a sign panel in 13 years. Are you serious? Sandblasting a trend gone bye?! :? Eventhough the whol...

I could almost count on taking 30 minutes to blast a 4x8 sign using a 125 CFM compressor, at 100-120 PSI using a 300 lb pot and a 1/4" nozzle. The smaller the pot, the more often you have to stop to fill it up. What kind of blasting pot do you advise? I have seen some photo's and video's on th...

Haha the walking encyclopedia!
Let me see what i have.....

Thanks guys, I will look them up and get my greedy hands on them. All i will do; will have to come from books, because here in Nederland there is no one who can teach me. Nobody does this kind of work.... Now with the books i can start learning new things. Thanks again Doug & Vance... I just ord...

No one has any connections to get hold on the book?


When i follow this link: http://www.duracaps.com/product_info.ph ... e2959c3f40
I have to pay 100 (or more) US Dollars for shipping only for one book!

But Danny,.... do you ever carve the sides, of routed letters, to a bevelded edge? Or is this in your opinion the best timespending way?

For months i have been trying to get my greedy hands on the book 'Mastering the Art of Dimensional Signmaking' sold by signfoam or duracaps http://www.duracaps.com/product_info.php/cPath/61/products_id/104?osCsid=045bde2b3f4e0a3e4359576757d332aa . But somehow somewhere someone does not want to coope...

Hello it is me again... I think i found a new treasure here.... Are there many people using this technique? Because what i read in the Wood- and HDU carving books is that everybody just carves the embossing seen here. I am very interested in this embossing/doming, because i made the beginners mistak...