new guy

[Chris Wool]

quote :

any one on here do
hwlc or reigate?

see the little men from mars has landed then 😉 😉 say no more

[Robert Lambie]

hi there and welcome to the boards.. course we are all here.. 😉
😆

please make yourself at home and tell us a little about what you do regarding signage.

thanks for taking the plunge and starting to post.. hope we can be of some help to you. 😉

[Carrie Brown]

Hi Barney welcome to the boards 😀

[Steve Maple]

went from paste up – back in the day
to hammersmith and west london college
for the city and guilds – sign work
had a little shop in fulham for a year
went and done a hnd in architectural signwriting
heraldry and calligraphy at the reigate school of art
took a full time job at a london based exhibition firm
licking n sticking whilst the babies were young
now on my own doing a bit
currently trading as the sign works.
the name stolen out of signcraft-didn’t realise there were so many uk
firms with the same name!
might have to change it!!
any hoo actually painted a few shops in pimlico london
– when it was snowing recently.
last gilt lettered sign i did was about 4 years ago
done a few blasted timber signs
getting more into full colour on vans
done a few wraps
becoming a salesman for printed banners
mainly am subbed out to bigger firms at exorbidant daily rates
but mostly have to put up with the really crappy jobs
ie 12 big rig tractor trailer double sided – apply 10meter by 1 metre
prints to their laden soft sides-
so thats 24 10by1m prints to stick up in 3 hours!
yes it has been done – off a mobile tower – 1 guy pushing it along
me blading it down and another peeling the backing-and trying not to be run over with it!
any hoo again thats me!

spose that says i can draw n paint-pin line, gild and such

[Jill Marie Welsh]

(sung in my best Purple Dinosaur voice)
“I love you- you love me- we’re a happy fam-a-lee”
Ok, please kill me now. (barfing emoticon)
Just had to tease you about your name.
Glad to see another traditional signwriter on the boards!
Nice work Barney. And I AM from Mars! I understand you perfectly.
Love…Jill 😉

[Steve Maple]

the others stevo – gone
real nick name nobby – gone
barney old nick name
suppose i could change it to steve2
can’t understand the mars thing .
mr sticker may know me from my college years 😮
never really done a cv type thing
but looking back it seems i tried to swerve the apple mac quark early
years and get in to another traditional hand craft
– how wrong i was eh? 😆

[Bill Dewison]

Hi and welcome Barney/Steve 😀

Nice work with the antiquey sign 😀 Sounds like you’ve had quite a varied and lengthy career in the signmaking game, love to see some more of your work 😀

Cheers, Dewi