Larry. A very good guard dog is Velvet. That little Dog of yours is soooooooooooo sweet when she is asleep. I remember trying to dodge Velvet everywhere in your house. She had her eye on me the whole time I was with you guys. She new I was scared........... Seeing her face again gives me nightmares....

Well I think you have made a very nice job Catherine.
well done
Dave

Very nice station Mr Blake ,Can't wait to see where you get the train from !. Oh and nice gold job on that girl Mr Segaly
Dave

I finished this panel a few days back. It will now go back in to it's frame and the collector will pick it up next week .I guess he Will then sell it on to a client . It was part of a batch of silvered mirrors along with this new Fry's Chocolate oval piece . excuse the glass cutting! Dave http://i11...

She's a beauty Doug! and so are you! not sure on the way your standing though......
Dave

This piece is beautiful Catherine ,you made a great job. I have seen it before also at one of Ricks Conclaves. I was deep blasting some text once down at Ricks and I remember Bill watching to see if I was going to keep to a certain depth and not go to deep ,he was very helpful and patient even thoug...

He reminds me of Santas little helpers up in Lapland knocking out out all the prezzies for Christmas.
He also remind me of the grinch-very simalar.

Nice work and workshop Doug.
Dave

The same goes for me, like Pat I also never realised they had an input here so thanks to the Denver Letterhead group.
Dave

Yes he does have a nice look to his letters Wayne. If you know some old time signartists still around it is well worth having a chat about there careers and what they did in the signtrade. I hope to sometime make a video on another local poster and signwriter/ticketwriter called Dennis Penny ,he is ...

A friend of mine called Ricky Knight came round a few days back with some old photos of his father- in-laws house with a van parked outside which his father-in- law had signwritten. Above the door of the house is written Ivydale, reverse gilded with a painted black outline and mother of pearl crushe...

Thanks for the info everyone.I poured on Turps (white spirit) over night and then in the morning was able to scrape it off nicely. It was like stone attached to the glass. silver it tommorow........
Thanks
Dave

Wow! Kelly what a beauty.This is art in glass.... You made a wonderful job of this piece. I very much like the effect it has. It looks like the letters are water gilded? can't tell from this angle.
Thanks for sharing.
Dave

Sounds like a great idea Ray. I have plenty of videos of Rick and Lola at Fine Gold from 1990 onwards and some of Peter Millichamps meet here in the UK back in 95.
When you get 5 minutes end me your address Ray.

Dave

Hi Kelly. How are you? Did you ever manage to finish the glass panel with the flowers on? I bet it came out real nice knowing you. The Red Bell glass is acid etched on the letters and the surrounding line and corners.,the date is probably about 1910. There is chunks of old putty attached to the oute...

I have a 3'6''x2'6''x 1/2''thick Red Bell glass sign to restore in the next few weeks. I was striping the silver off yesterday and noticed the letters had been Angelgilded first. They must of acid etched the letters first then angelgilded an area over the letters then printed the back including the ...

Doug. Go and buy yourself a water purifier for making deionised water ,connect it up and you will have good mirrors everytime. You can buy the small ones sold by Purmutit ,just change the cartridge once it turns orange, it lasts for ages. I never use bonami for cleaning when silvering - it probably ...

Larry.
Sounds good to me ,I will be happy to see this one made at Pat's new sizes.Good luck I know you can do it.You will need 4 people to silver her at each corner. Send me a ticket and I will be one of them.

Dave

Now these guy's would give the Town of Machine a run for there money. Watch out William Blake! http://www.shorpy.com/node/2627?size=_original http://www.shorpy.com/node/2624#comments here also is a very nice storefront http://www.shorpy.com/node/1838?size=_original Nice glass Whiskey sign in the cen...

Some images of the glass at the Crown Saloon Bar Belfast. I think these may have been repainted at some time. The backgrounds in places look unfinished The chipping is interesting, I like the colour scheme that goes with the tiles and the rest of the architectural fascia work. The Cherub glass I sho...

I want to see a nice big piece coming out your shop Larry.
Easy to make with a vinyl mask and silvered over.
Chrushed abalone and sprinkled glitter dust to the letters sounds good.
Dave

Nice piece for sale on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... SS:GB:1123

Nice one to make for a project.

Dave

Exactly the same Larry. I forgot to mention they are slate on the back as said on the Ebay listing.
Dave

Some very cool Antiques there.
Thanks Larry

Doug I will be in London next week , I will try and get some Photos of the refurb at the Princess Louise.
Dave

You crack me up with laughter Pat. reminds me of a sketch from Laurel and Hardy
Dave

I was invited round a friends house a few days back to see his collection of advertising signs. Tim Porosa is a designer and estimater for a sign company in Exeter , Devon .Tim once ran his own sign company making signs for all sorts of businesses . Alot of his work was with pub chains and Freehouse...

Hi Vance. I guess it's sometimes down to who your'e dealing with and if you really want the job. I ran my sign business for over 15 years ,the plan from the the start to make as much money as I could, but also to churn out quality workmanship which snowballed into even more work .It would be nice to...

Hi Kent thanks for thie info. You have some very interesting suggestions for this process. Do you have any pics you could post here on some of the experiments you have done? would be good to see some examples. I am going to go with quick rubbing and Damar poss leave out the resin gel as I do not hav...

Kelly very nice job. A lady called Frances Binnington now ( Federer) visited me a bout 4 months ago from London. She specialises in Verre Eglomise. She said she made it out to one of the Conclaves in the 90's. Tony Segal told me about her work while at Larry's .Tony took her course in New York I thi...

Hand obscuring Kelly is when you have a fine slurry of sanblasting medium between two pieces of glass. The cuts in the glass are first polished and then by taking a piece of glass and using it like you would wash your car with a sponge in a circular motion you go over the cuts and grind the glass aw...