Original Dead Men

[Robare M. Novou]

Hmmm, I wonder what it looks like from the front.

RMN

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[Tony Segale]

things do look right with the brush in his left hand.


He couldn't stay in the lines if his mahl stick was resting on
Gilbraltar.

[Larry White]

That's a lot of bold talk...for a one-eyed fat man!

Jenco is a notorious thumper! He gilded by the light
of the moon with Dickinson and Roderick "The Kid" Treece!
They slapped vinyl at the Conclave in Bakersfield, California.

... best let this go Jenco!



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[Tony Segale]

That is a lie!
What conclave were you at, mister?
what side of the glass was you on?

Good, then! There are not sufficient leaves of palladium
to make it worth my while to listen to your opinions,
day and night. Our agreement is nullified—it’s each gilder for
himself!

Adios.

[Noah Moore]

....Present ? .......


...This project is giving me fits!.....



Why'd they have to make it so big!?!......




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looks like fun though. cant wait to see the finished product.

[Larry White]

You want to gild here....with these people?

I'm expecting three more gilders...
Bosselman,
Smith,
and, His Mica in the Rain....

Okay...so here it is from the front.



This one happens to be done by Mr. Schofield (aka Steve Vigeant. of Berkeley Signs, CA),
it's all been executed in layers of mica powder, and various gilding techniques. Agreed,
some of us had our doubts, but it came out lookin' real good!

You'll just have to guess who did the art, and who printed the glass......

-Aho!

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[Tony Segale]

another in progress....

transparent screen inks used in a reverse transparent watercolor technique..
verre eglomise gold in the dirt
florence, italy style gilding in letters.

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please don't fire!

[Noah Moore]

those are looking really nice. im liking the watercolor effect.

[Anthony Bennett]

I like them both.
If I had the expertise I would combine them both to look like this, veryquick and very badly done mock up.

[Larry White]

People do not give it credence that a group of sign artists would leave home and go off in the wintertime to honor
their mentor's passing, but it does happen. This was just the 8th meeting of the Memorial Conclave, which was held
down at Daine Ross' studio in Bakersfield, California, to honor their friend Rick Glawson.






Now that they've called us by name......


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[Larry White]

Here's a few varmits and vagrants in action.....



Is that Emit Quincy?...



...photos courtesy of one Angus Dunfries.....



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[Larry White]

I have finished the first building. I am entertaining ideas for the rest of them.



Looks like I got my work cut out for me there.......



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[Tony Segale]

Those two on the end...
Cut 'em out.


Do like I tell ya.

[Larry White]

What do you know, Jenco?......

By the time you got back to Lodi, your project was probably
as beat up as Dick’s hatband. It will be a challenge to finish....
if it doesn't get broken. Then if you CAN fix it, I will get you two
or three gilding classes at a sign shop up in Detroit. They
will teach you to water gild and glue chip up there but the rest
of it won’t be so good. Them slappers can be hard on a gimp.

So, you give me some good information on rendering my buildings and
I will invite you over to Machine and get you a new piece of glass.
Then I will give you three days to gild it and paint it.


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[Tony Segale]

You are trying to get at me.

We are weary gilders.



Who worked your project over with the ugly stick?

[John Frankel]

What've you got there in your poke? By God! A Smith's Tip! Tha's a good tip. Why, you're no bigger than a corn nubbin, what're you doing with a tip like that? I intend to gilded with it if the law fails to do so. Well, that piece will do the job-if you can find a high stump to rest it on and a wall to put behind you.

[Larry White]

....the Liquitex grey quills are about all gone....
..... damned shame. I would give three dollars
right now for a set of those good ole quills.

However, the Scharffs Greyline is a quill of
uncanny power and precision.....

I'll be lookin' to them....

Nice brush....very nice brush!

If I ever get the money, I'm going to buy a
dozen of each size.



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[Tony Segale]

It is just a turkey shoot.
There was one time in New Mexico,
when Bo was a strong colt and I myself had less tarnish, we
was being pursued by seven slappers. I turned Bo around and
taken the reins in my teeth and rode right at them boys slinging
them two Wrights of Lymm Red Sables I carry in my aluminum brush box.
Well I guess they was all married slappers who loved their families as they
scattered and run for home.

[Larry White]

Always liked me a quill with some snap.
Last set of Liquitex greys got off a man who
couldn't pay all he owed for some cows.
Dam fine brushes.
Always noticed you favor something softer, don't you?



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[John Frankel]

"We have no rodeo clowns in Machine", One would be as unpleasant as the other. If you wet your gilding brush,
it might tame that cowlick. I can get all the talk I need and more at the Machine Boarding House. The author of
all things watches over me. If I ever meet one of you Texas gilders that says he never drank water size from a
glass jar I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar. I believed it the first twenty-five times
I heard it. Maybe it is true. Maybe lapping water size off the ground is Ranger policy.

[Tony Segale]

This is like vinyl slappers talking.

[John Frankel]

Bold talk from a One eye fat gilder, Jenco is at his end of a long list of fugitives and malefactors. A saucy line will not get far with me. This is like women talking.

[Larry White]

Not bad.....Jenco...

That's not a bad selection of brushes over there at Wrights of Lymm.

What I don't understand is....which ones you were refering too.......



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[Tony Segale]

Now that you called me by name....

I have Sable Series 1315, metal ferrule, black lacquered handles.
I don't see those listed by series number on their website, the closest would be
Sable Hair Chisel Writers - Normal Length.
If you prefer, choose the long length, can't go wrong either way.
don't ask me why, just call it good fortune and leave it at that.

Hanover makes a good sable series, also.
. . . And, it is Jenco policy never to order your sables with a plastic ferrule.
Very imprudent to make your tools hold up in plastic in this unsettled craft.

[Larry White]

Well now ya know....

I see they have a nice set of 8 available. Praise the lord.
Why are they so much? Their website says fifty dollars,
but does not specify how much to be shipped. Sixty dollars
would be every cent I have. It leaves nothing for any OneShot.

Their terms are agreeable if I may have them overnighted here.


Why do they have to come from so far away?.......



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[Tony Segale]

I do not know. Possibly in the belief it would make them more
valuable.

But it is a fine writing sable, possibly worth something
in our trade.

There is no use in you asking
me anymore questions about it, for I will not answer them.

I do keep an extra supply of them in my gilder's desk.

If you would like to order your own,
that would be alright.

[Bill Masters]

I bought 14 series 2116 Red Sable lettering quills
fron A S Handover LTD. very pleased with them,
cost around $150.00.

[Larry White]

You don’t remember anything, do you Schofield?



Seems my project is comin' out as tight as Dick’s hatband.
It won't be long before I am through. Then when it's done,
it'll spend two or three weeks up at City Picture Frame up in Frisco.

Those other boys will try to keep up with me, but the rest of them
won’t be so good. That artwork can be hard on a gimp.

You boys post a picture of your progress and I'll give you some
good information on what to do.


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[Tony Segale]

Best let this go, LeBlake.

Add one more line, and I'll stove your piece in.

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[Anthony Bennett]

Is the High Plains Gilder template available available at all please and if so could I have a copy please?