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Yes! I feel like ive come home!!
(drink1) Hi! I have just decided to take the jump and start my own signwriting business! I was trained to use the brush and thats what I really enjoy doing! I was made redundant the bloomin month before christmas so no ho! ho! ho! show!!
I reckon I can convince the british public that they should opt for the traditional hand painted signage, well I hope so anyway!!
I reckon I will have to get a vinyl cutter to begin with at least! until I get myself known! -
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hello wormsplicer 😀
wish you all the best on your new mission!! 😛 😛 and look forward to some piccies too!! 😀 😛
Nik
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Hi 😀
Welcome to the boards …….. nice pic 😉 :lol1: Do you have another name or is it just wormsplicer? 😛
Good Luck with your new business.
Carrie & Stephen :welcome:
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Oh dear.. another transvestite signwriting business starting up.. 😮
You’re probably not the first, but I would suggest that if you want to run a successful business you should try and aim to be a bit more mainstream.
1/ Either have a shave or drop the woman’s (mermaids) clothing
2/ Buy a vinyl cutter (the great British public are too mean to spend money on brush painting when the same thing can be achieved much more cheaply in vinyl).
…..I bet that’s rattled a few cages 😉
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Hi and welcome Mr/Mrs Wormsplicer 😀
As has been said, good luck with your new business 😀 I doubt being made redundant just before christmas was one of the happyiest moments for you, but you seem to be ready to bounce back and take the world by storm, I like your style! There are some great traditional signwriters here who do a healthy mix of both vinyl and paint work, so I doubt it will take you long to establish yourself.
Considering you look a few jam butties short of a picnic, I doubt it’s going to take you long to establish yourself here either *hair* It kind of helps if you’re 50% insane before you start, makes the other 50% of your sanity so much easier to lose 😀 Look forward to hearing more 😀
Cheers, Dewi
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😮 hi y’all! thanks for the welcome!! wormsplicer is the name I had in my old band!! so I always use it whenever I can!!
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Hi Wormy, and welcome aboard. Love your seashell.
I am a painter, too.
When I went to the UK, thinking I’d see a lot of tasty hand-painted pub signs,
I was shocked to see that most of the stuff was done by a computer.
I think being different and less mainstream is a good thing,
it helps you stand out in the crowd.
Just don’t be so unusual that people are afraid to approach you.
And don’t go looking better than me, because i might just have to bitch-slap you! 😉
Good luck with your new business.
Computers are handy for pounce patterns and designing, but it is PRICELESS
to not have to rely on one for everything, when you have your own two hands.
Love….Jill
PS
I wonder why, Phil, that it is cheaper for you to make a vynull sign with $$ materials,
a sign program, a computer, transfer tape, etc etc, than it is for me to make one
with a $7 can of 1-Shot, a brush, and some turpentine?
If given the chance and the education by me, folks will gladly pay for a custom painted sign over a vynull one because they know that anyone can make one of those.
Don’t get me wrong, I do sell more vynull signs now than painted.
But I STILL charge more for my 20 years of expertise and God-given art talent
than some overnight shmuck with a licky-sticky shop does.
There is no comparison between a well-designed sign, be it hand-done or not,
and some computer monstrosity bought on the cheap.
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