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hand painted signage: cowbridge house inn part 2
After what seems like ages the job is finally finished and fitted, 2 main boards gold gilded 18mm letters, the rest vinyl.
The one on the gable was a real (oh i swore), had to remove existing signs first, thanks to Paul Rafferty for helping me fit them.
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nice one steve, they realy fit in, dont they, did you do the one at the road front as well?eddie
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Nice one steve, looks really traditional. Did you do the lighting as well or did you fit your signs under existing lights?
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Excellent work once again Steve – I’m sure the pub owner was very pleased with those.
How did you manage to fit the gable end sign by the way? I can see that access to this was awkward and I imagine the sign was quite heavy.
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gorgeous Steve – bloomin gorgeous…a classic set of inn signs!
I’ve chatted to yu about these over the phone and that gable end sign was a real tease eh!
great stuff mate – so don’t let that florists get ya’ down …. 😉
get in ther my son’…!
more soon
mikethesign
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classic english inn signs mate… excellent! 😉
i see you do alot of gold leaf work mate.. must have taken ages to do. but worth it in the end no doubt 😉
you should start your own goldleaf school along with mikes! 😆
i can here you both now… “get lost!.. no chance thats my tape measure.. ” 😆 😆 -
Hey Martin,
I don’t mess with that elastictrickery, it does wierd things to you just look at Sparky 😆 , yes the lights where already there as we had to remove the existing signage too, cheeky bloody landlord got me to change his bulbs too 😕 Phil the gable, ah no don’t nightmare (shudder!!!!!) the roof has a 3 foot parapet so its 3 foot higher than it looks, double extender to the top with a step ladder under the extender to lift the sign whilst Paul up the ladder fitted at the top and it was windy and bloody cold, sometimes I think I should have been a baker like me dad.Robert ah yes gold leaf, can’t tell you top secret 😎 don’t be daft if a dickhead like me can do it then so can anyone, some will say why not just use moulded perspex? cos it works out more expensive, yes even with the gold, and perspex looks crap by comparisson flat and horrible oh yeah and they fall off too.
Gold leafing just takes a bit of practice, I’ve even seen Mike Brown do it, got it on video too !!!!!
OK if your interested I got £2300 for the 8 signs, only 4 had any gold on them and I only used 4 books of leaf thats £40, total material costs for the whole job about £400 😀 John Smiths Brewery paid for it, they got plenty of cash 😉
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