Thinkin' about gettin' out of the sign business...

Larry White · Post by **Larry White** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:52 pm

...now that anyone can do it.

The Amazing Cricut Cutter!

Shoulda got out while ya had the chance.

(I couldn't help myself...sorry.)

James Warwick · Post by **James Warwick** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:49 pm

Hi Larry

I saw this machine on a half hour info commercial about 2 months ago.
My first thought was there will be a lot of "nubies" sign experts in the near future with this machine. I thought the price was cheap for what it will do. I assume the supplies are expensive.

It a changing world

Tony Segale · Post by **Tony Segale** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:18 pm

other cricut home project machines will come along and kill this one off, too.

nuthin matters anymore... not the cheap machines, not the free logo websites, not the fonts...
cause now I know they'll never create what you or I can.

Kelly Thorson · Post by **Kelly Thorson** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:53 am

I have a couple of clients I'm going to send that link too.
Then I have a few more I'm going to refer to them.

erik winkler · Post by **erik winkler** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:52 am

Kelly Thorson wrote:I have a couple of clients I'm going to send that link too.
Then I have a few more I'm going to refer to them.

Haha I like that one!

Post by **Danny Baronian** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:53 am

Along with the Cutter, no sign shop should be without a new CNC, with a footprint slightly larger than a sewing machine!

With the purchase of the extensive library of ready to cut panels and signs, anyone can instantly produce award winning signs!

DISCLAIMER: Sewing machine style motor and or moveable parts warrantied for 2 hours or 20 lineal feet of material, whichever occurs first.

Jerry Berg · Post by **Jerry Berg** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:22 am

We've certainly seen more change than any other generation. Technology, I've seen those that use it.... not the same type of satifaction.

Patrick Mackle · Post by **Patrick Mackle** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:01 am

Sorry, you guys missed out.
I took my life savings and bought stock in this "cutting edge company" when I first saw this machine years ago in Las Vegas, it was advertised as Gerber for the masses.
And its not through changing mankind as you knew it. Yet to come is the next generation _ Cricut with the five axis super sharp surgical steel blade and laser beam combo.
You will simply position the "dermal _ Cricut" onto your chosen part of your body. Head, crotch, breast, privates, the positions are endless! Then by simply linking up to the internet,
you can select a medical specialist in an emerging country sitting on a dirt floor with a joy stick to preform delicate operations on your person. Face lifts, cataracts, tattoo removal, vasectomies, heart valves, even skin cancers will be easily lasered or cut and weeded away in minutes by a mail order post graduate who speaks broken English. (PayPal will continue to grow.)
I apologize for gleaming while you vinyl slappers bemoan the remainder of your sorry lives amongst numerous rolls of obsolete rotting vinyl. Oh well, and as if we weren't filling our landfills with enough
vinyl and release paper fallout already.
Growing richer in Monrovia,
Pat

Roderick Treece · Post by **Roderick Treece** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:25 am

Pat,
Thanks for talking me into investing in "Cricut". At the show in Vegas I didn't really beleave you but that investment has made me financially well off. I don't think the company wanted you to tell anybody about the Dr.Cricut.Once that comes out it's gonna change the world.
What some people don't realize is that the Cricut will be the salvation of millions of out of work house wives around the world.I for one think having to drive 1 mile to my nearest computer vinyl store is just to far so I've been telling my nabors about cricut for awhile now.

Thanks again Pat for seeing a great investment and talking me into.

Larry White · Post by **Larry White** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:13 pm

If I ever get the money, I'd like to do an infomercial, just like that one. And I'd get the same guy to do the voice over. Is that polished, or what! He could sell soap to a pig! Got my 30 day trial on the way! Oh, the fabulous greeting cards my friends will receive! So easy, a caveman could do it!

This picture is just to torment Pat. I bet under all that knowledge inside his brain...he'd know how to make these...

-AHO!

Patrick Mackle · Post by **Patrick Mackle** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:16 pm

Rod,
Just another word to the wise.
Soon to make an appearance will be the much awaited Cricut Kavorkian, named after the infamous _ Jack Kavorkian, the soon to be cannonized patron saint of Euthenaisia.
Lately cemeteries are being bulldozed to make fresh landfill space for the unsightly massive "Vinyl Nation waste" that is reaching epidemic proportions, and currently being generated by stay at home moms. Add to this the ever increasing hoards of homeless professional sign painters who have realized their end. Word has spread that there is a great need to end it all and move on to that great sign shop in the sky, where gilding and signing of great ornate gates and glass is in serious demand. Amazingly, the only difference between previous Cricuts and the Kavorkian is the size of the blade. The newly arriving Kavorkian unit is only held momentarily at arms length and sports a stunning 42" Samurai sword!
Saianara vinyl slappers!
Pat

Patrick Mackle · Post by **Patrick Mackle** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:27 pm

Larry,
Where did you find the photo of those shades. Years ago I had a guy in a Slavic country send me the same photos. They are from an old Austrian glass company catalog that made those lamps around WWII.
My computer crashed and the files were locked on the hard drive. I do know how to make the acid etching and also think I know of an American glass blowing company that could blow the shapes.
Do you have more of the photo plates?
Pat

Tony Segale · Post by **Tony Segale** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:48 pm

you know what I say?

I say all that talk is doodly-squat!

Larry White · Post by **Larry White** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:38 pm

This was the latest little ditty coming out of Machine...

It's etched on the face of a mirror (72" x 44"). I was hoping to get my Cricut in time to run this through, but no such luck! The customer provided an illustration about the size of a business card. I had my lovely wife redraw it with her caligraphy pen. I was then hoping I coud scan it and crunch it into a vector file using the online Vector Magic program, but it didn't come out with the quality I needed, so I had to hand cut it out, which nearly caused me to lose my will to live. After fully blasting the line work, I then sequentially peeled out the remaining areas, giving each a partial blast creating the toned effect. I did 5 tones which is really pushing the limit. The customer's coming today to settle up. I think I'll medicate with some sushi!

-Aho!

Tony Segale · Post by **Tony Segale** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:07 pm

If the spirit is willing, the flesh has the strength of ten!

See what fine, fine work can be produced by buildin it up with ye own two hands?

Nice etching, very nice etching.

You go on and have that sushi lad, you earned it.

If there is any negative to this...
no matter what you charge, it most likely wasn't enough.

Fine piece of art, my friend.

Now, where do I get me a cricut?.....

Thinkin' about gettin' out of the sign business...

Thinkin' about gettin' out of the sign business...

cricut's makin me RICH!

Another leak...

Lamp shades