Are you kidding me?
I read about shopwindow projects done here in one day.
So I thought this could be done... and want to learn how to make something like this.

Larry, To begin with your last comment: The logo I am painting is very detailed and rather small, there is no way to paint this and esspecially not me who never did that before. So I am looking for a shortcut. I heard that brushing the outline with oooometalwool does get rid of the sharp edges. Seco...

Hipphipp hoereyy!
Finally I have got all my ingrediënts, they arived yesterday from Canada.
Ofcourse after work I started to try making that gold leaf sign on our window again.
Now it is up to training and skill I suppose.

Thanks for the hospitality gentleman! Getting more interesting everytime. The trade show will be in April 2009. Enough time to make some quality programming for the trip. Are there any other spots in the California area to visit as a Letterhead fan? For instance is the old shop front of Esoteric Sig...

Sounds good!
Why not doing the Route 66 and visit some more
Ending at vinyls paradise and do a workshop at Bullpens
The exhibition is tax-deductable so why not.

For your interest. http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll200/erikwinkler/SamuelEvans.jpg Year: 1923 Type: Original Print Grade:Near Mint / Very Fine NAIAA: Registered and Certified (S) Image: Black & White / Grayscale Approximate Size (inches): 8.5 x 12 Approximate Size (cm): 22 x 30 Estimated Va...

We (our firm) are a member of a Dutch sign organisation that promotes the sign business and keeps an eye on the quality standards of its members. This organisation organises courses, researches, insurances and a lot of other things. They also organize, every two years, a trip to the International Si...

Guys I want to thank you for your input. Larry very considered and cool of you to ask for an exact quote. I appreciate it! I will go on to work at it this weekend boss. It is just so incredibly bussy at the firm! Again I can not put enough emphasis on the importance of a clean cut website. Roderick ...

Yes I paid 19 dollars for just 1/4 inch of flat polished starphire glass.

Do you guys allways use the more expensive starphire glass or is 1/4 of an inch so thin that you won't see the green tone when silvering/gilding etc?

But did I pay way too much for my glass? Was the polished edge too much for my need? It seems to be somewhat the same as the mentioned 'common' edges shown by Larry... They will be my demo's to show to potential customers. I will slide them in a wooden suitcase I am going to make for them so I can t...

Feeling angry and stupid.... :evil: But the anxiety to start making some demo's was too much now that I have almost all my ingrediënts that I forgot to get a quote/invoice. But on the other hand the price Larry paid was about the same for the same kind of work am I correct? Can you please explain wh...

I just ordered some 20 pieces of glass. Asked for pure white (not the glass that has a green accent). Size: 20x20cm (7,87 inch x 7,87 inch). Thickness: 6mm (0.2364 inch). Asked to have the sides bevel polished, so that the pieces are somewhat more handeable... Just picked them up and the price I had...

I got this message when I clicked on the link: "Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you. Why? If you are in the UK and see this message please read this advice. Go to Radio channels home page" Unfor...

Mike, Thanks for your reply. I called the firm who sells (and is the specialist of) the epoxy and he sugested i should use an other kind of epoxy. "The first one i used is epoxy for moulding and very thin the second is used to brush on and even stays stuckon the ceiling, without dripping"....

I just domed acrylic routed letters about 10 inch high.
But i think the relief is rather flat.....
How can I create higher doming and still maintain some pourability?

Dave old boy, My dad and I were standing with my mother in the framing-shop for almost 1,5 hour haha. It was a family arangement :wink: We had about 200 framestyles in our hand and both came up with exactly the same frames styles... No colour, since colour will destract the attention from the panel....

Since I just saw the nice results of the Dan Sawatsky workshop. I thought it was about time to show the final results of mine pieces made at Dave's. They are hanging in our firm with nice black frames. Since the workshop I am constantly organizing the firm, buying ingrediënts in Amercia, Canada, Ger...

Auuch these pictures hurt!
I wanna be there....
Next time.

Roderick wrote:Eric,I can't beleave you just said "And screw the 'females' on the wall" .Even Deadmen don't talk that bad,well maybe they do.
Roderick

Roderick,
Maybe that is why i love my job

We do not use the 'g' a lot, but do these things: http://www.signnovation.nl/files_cms/elementen/pagina/59771.jpg We glue the transparant 'males' to the back of the letters with cyano-acrylate glue. And screw the 'females' on the wall. Just press the 'males' on the backside of the letters into the '...

As you may probably know i live and work in Nederland (Europe). I read about Gemini in the American sign magazines. Looked at their site and realised that you guys acroos the big ocean use different mounting techniques than we use over here. We do not use stut-mounting a lot, but do the 'distanthold...

Brian,
Didn't you made this design earlier?
I remember this work... from your website or something else...
Erik

I found the archive pieces, but they really speak numeral times about soap and not sap. I think i take the jokes to serious... :wink: But why soap. Later on I found the original patent of the one who used the glue chipping process, but he works with varnish as a resist to the glue. Did not know that...

Aaagh why so cryptic?! "Is it soap or is it sap" it is not R&E but a number.... and when you find that three the pot of gold is not far away.... :D Do you really think it is sap? Well i like digging through archives,so i will look up the number and keep it a dark dark secret.... :wink:...

Soap instead of Asphaltum?!!!!
Did anybody knew that?
And how can you put a sandblast resist on a film of soap?

Dave, Just a quick note. If you mask the front of the mirror and give it a weak acid wash, that specific area of the mirror will not fog up with the shower steam. You could add a thoughtful hidden message like "I Love You!" or a witty bloke one like "WARNING, objects in this mirror m...

This is the modern stuff that I like.

Sorry guys i can not help myself! There are photographic renderings for more than 2500 years. The only question is how photographic is it? I must post this......: "The beginning… Well, the beginning of photography can be relationated with invention of camera obscura, which tracks can be found i...

Sorry guys i can not help myself! There are photographic renderings for more than 2500 years. The only question is how photographic is it? I must post this......: "The beginning… Well, the beginning of photography can be relationated with invention of camera obscura, which tracks can be found i...