"Someone here knows all about it and has made the mistakes already."
Who that be???
Pat
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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.
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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- Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:10 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Photo Resist for glass etch
- Replies: 2
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- Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Images on Tile
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5070
Kelly, Some ideas come to my mind. You could blast them with photoresist and then, instead of paint, fill them with a sturdy grout of colored portland cement with an acrylic additive for extra bonding strength. This cement fill would have a non-glare finish against the glaze of the tile. Also, this ...
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:11 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: GOLD LEAF restoration project...I need advice please..Update
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7169
- Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Boise workshop was good
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5943
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Brilliant Cutting
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10601
- Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:09 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2084423
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:16 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Silver mirroring and ONE SHOT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2727
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: 1915 Fire Engine - Gold Leaf on yellow?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9491
Kelly, Thank you for the continueing update. I personally, (and I am sure I'm not alone) am deeply into older vehicles and their restoration. Especially when those assigned dig up all the actual-original tidbits and proceedures. To me its kind of like in the film Farhenhiet 451, where individuals be...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Original Dead Men
- Replies: 686
- Views: 2084423
Nice work Larry, as clean and neat as any that I've come to expect from your hand. Light plays many tricks where etched or frosted glass is involved. Between light transmission or reflection the etched tones on the glass can turn from art positive to art negative just from a simple head tilt or a li...
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:13 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: nice texture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8232
Entertaining to hear your account of how they did their etching. Also 70% hf is difficult to obtain anymore in my experience. I wonder if they make their own or buy it around 51% and increase the % themselves. Your post reminds me of all the acid etching experiments I did long ago trying to learn an...
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: nice texture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8232
Face down acid embossing... probably done in China, I mean am I close?...am I right? ...Milwaukee? ... What do you think Pat? -Larry Yes sir, definatley acid etched face down right here in the US. I'm a little surprised to learn that they use asphaltum as the resist, I would think they might also u...
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Cigar box guitars
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3044
Cigar box guitars
Found this website by chance. It has some old cigar boxes with label art that were incorporated into instruments. The DEXTER box has a neat logo.
(The oddmusic site also has music sound clips of odd instruments, check out the beer bottle pipe organ playing Elenor Rigby.)
Go to www.oddmusic.com
Pat
(The oddmusic site also has music sound clips of odd instruments, check out the beer bottle pipe organ playing Elenor Rigby.)
Go to www.oddmusic.com
Pat
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: making angel gilding more "yellow"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5961
I might be way out of line and have no way to see what the actual example is, but this sounds very much like silver stain...would be really terrific to see a couple of photo's. The only thing I have ever seen that is a transparent yellow and not a solid gild is that. Doug may be on to something her...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:53 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Dave Smith's Silver Stain up-date
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2449
- Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:15 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Victorian Silver Staining
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4913
Hi all. Dave and I have become interested in silver staining glass. I've been working on duplicating a replacement of silver stained and wheel cut glass for an 1800's antique gypsy caravan wagon. I bought some silver stains from Reusche Company, but they didn't fire up to a deep amber. They required...
- Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:39 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Cleaning and abradeing screens
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3301
I seldom find it necessary to abrade my screens whether scooping or using indirect film. I know a film chemist that creates a specialized adhesive component that is applied to screen films to make them bond to the screen for long printing run endurance. But when I did want to add a tooth to the scre...
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:38 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: silver mirroring and angel guilding
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1963
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Just lucky I guess...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3227
- Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Old Glass Sign Images...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2014
- Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:41 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Chipping in Snow County - Mike, Doug, or anyone
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19819
Hello All. My hard drive crashed- remedy= down time and BIG bucks at tax time!! Positive side-It's a rippin' monster now. In answer to Dave's lead to different glass hardness. It is true that glass varies in hardness to the fact it will cut or glue chip differently. Just tempering regular plate glas...
- Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Chipping in Snow County - Mike, Doug, or anyone
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19819
Great post Dave. You have made some keen odservations on the preliminary stages of applying the glue AND initial drying prior to involving heat and inducing a dehumidified environment. I believe variations of these preliminary proceedures once defined and catagorized will answer our long asked quest...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Let the chips fall where they may.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3547
Roderick, I don't see how a hydrometer will work in this instance. They are used to determine the specific weight of salts or acids in water, and even then if the fluid being tested was too viscous it would fowl the displacement of the hydrometer. I believe a simple viscometer as I mentioned earlier...
- Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:46 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Let the chips fall where they may.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3547
- Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Compressor Questions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5271
Two stage compressor pumps have two or three cylinders. Single stages can also have two cylinders. The difference is that on the 2 stage, air is drawn into the first cylinder, compressed and sent to the second cylinder which is a smaller cylinder which therefore compresses that same volume of air to...
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Compressor Questions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5271
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Compressor Questions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5271
Doug, The sander will require the most air, as it generally is used continueously. The HVLP can also use alot on large surfaces. If you are only spraying a few square feet with pauses inbetween you can get by with a smaller compressor. The nailer should not be a problem unless you are roofing with a...
- Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Glue won't adhere
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5673
Brian, Animal glue does not get old easily. I store mine in big plastic trash cans. Have kept some of it since 1980. I also recycle the chipped glue many times. Your description sounds like the glue hadn't adhered tightly to the glass. This will happen if the proceedure is rushed, especially if you ...
- Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:49 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Rawson & Evans sign,what does it say?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5776
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Rawson & Evans sign,what does it say?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5776
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:23 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Embossed Glass - From "Decorative Glass Processes"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3214