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How is this sign made? Any ideas?
Morning all.
My customer wants me to replicate the item shown below from this terrible picture. I’ve explained to her that it looks like a moulded/pressed gold foil material & have no idea how to replicate it.
Anyone come across this stuff or a company that makes it before?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
G.
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I’d say it was bought from a Turkish street market.
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god knows why shes asking a sign maker to recreate a picture frame. surely a picture framing company would be a good start?
only thing i would suggest and its far from the same. but make a simple frame and cover it in gold leaf vinyl.
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Trouble is, she wants it with the same intricate pattern 😮
I thought it looked like some pre-moulded sheet, much like the sticky backed chequer plate plastic sheets you can get in the likes of The Range etc.
Ah well, worth an ask. Cheers fellas.
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quote Gwaredd Steele:Trouble is, she wants it with the same intricate pattern
give her your answer in two words…. second one is "OFF" 😉
Best of luck. 😀
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I kid you not.
This is the artwork she sent through for me.
In jpg 😥
Please tell me it’s not just me who has customers like this?
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quote Robert Lambie:quote Gwaredd Steele:Trouble is, she wants it with the same intricate patterngive her your answer in two words…. second one is “OFF” 😉
Best of luck. 😀
This is the best advice you will get on this
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grafitype sell sand blasting vinyl, apply then sand blast if you have it other wise dont know if acid etch would work. i think robs advice it true though.
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Before you all start ask at the local indian take away may be an off the shelf from one of there suppliers? just an idea wild one i know
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I personally would try Inn Gear. The people that are advertising it 😉
Think this will be them http://www.inngear.co.uk/
Cheers
Gary
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Nice try Gary, but it is they who are my customers! :lol1:
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:lol1: And here I was thinking I was on the ball today 😳 :lol1:
Have they not got taste 🙄
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It’s usually 100% the designers choice to be fair. They just source it & fit.
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You can buy these from those crappy tat shops that sell home furnishings/gifts etc, not seen a gold one though 🙄
Not that I go in that sort of shop much
Steve
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I have to agree with Robert, there really is no other way to deal with that one.
Other suggestion is, throw that one away and buy a pair of similarly nasty frames that match, who’d be any the wiser.
Another thing to consider is, how much do they expect to pay for it if you spend ages locating it or indeed getting it made??? And when people say, "I don’t care what it costs, I must have it" they’re very unlikely to actually mean it unless they own an oil refinary…
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