[Brian Little]

very nice Phil i must post some of mine not posted for a long time

[Brian Little]

lovely work neil ….nightmare of a job tho

[Brian Little]

ive started using Mack brushes got a nice feel about them

[Brian Little]

very nice neil …not the easiest surface

[Brian Little]

quality neil!!

[Brian Little]

Beautiful Neil !!!!…one shot gold ?

[Brian Little]

Beautiful Neil !!!!…one shot gold ?

[Brian Little]

Thanks Paul ill have a look

[Brian Little]

beautiful stuff there neil very original

[Brian Little]

thankyou paul

[Brian Little]

quote Paul.Carter:

Great job! Brian
And good to see the old traditional sign writing still going strong.

[Brian Little]

thankyou guys for your comments just got this i thought i had alerts set up on the app but clearly not …thankyou

[Brian Little]

thanks martin

[Brian Little]

nope Jonathan they cant help looks like ill have to contact Graphtec themsells .The power supply board has power going to it but not the side that goes to main board .But that maybe a lower voltage thats no registering id rather get that board tested

[Brian Little]

quote Jonathan feeney:

Hi Brian I don’t know if MDP supplies could help as they are a distributor for graphtec they might know a Scottish engineer cheers

[Brian Little]

oh right jonathan i deal with them anyway thankyou for that ill give them a call thankyou

[Brian Little]

good on you paul some people just hit a stone wall they have every intention of paying you but things just happen .Then theres those who have no intention of paying in the first place

[Brian Little]

quote Paul.Carter:

We had one recently the overall Invoice amount was for £750. The customer asked for 30 days which I was happy to give
because we had done lots of work for him before which he always settled quickly. This time very different lots of excuses
blah blah blah. 60 days later I was getting abit stressed out with it sending various e-mails, letters with no reply.

Started looking into the small claims, collection agencies etc when he finally returned my call said he would send two post dated cheques for £375. To be fair one arrived which we banked and it did clear but never saw the the other one and to be honest that made me more mad. But we later herd he had infact gone (oh i swore !) up very soon after our cheque cleared owing
various amounts.

So in a nutshell we were lucky to get half our money I remembered he had a very young family and to be honest he overstretched himself and just had to much on finance. I actually emailed him wishing him the best of luck for the future
I just kept thinking about his family it’s not nice he never paid the full amount but it was obvious he just could not pay
not like the ones who can and take the (oh i swore !).

[Brian Little]

Thanks for that hugh .Im actually taking it to Martin ( pearson) the day hes really good with these things hes has far more tech knowledge than i do i just dont trust myself even touching it !! …ill let you know how it goes

[Brian Little]

latest job new restaurant

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[Brian Little]

well robert id be lying if i didnt

[Brian Little]

Years ago ….and im talking years ! a girl i went out with asked me to signwrite her left breast ( im serious) its was a hellish job took me a year to complete

[Brian Little]

Hi Stafford thanks for getting back to me .Just in this last 15 minutes the display has come back on could it have just been cold ? weve been -7 up here for a few weeks at nights and ive been doing a lot more traditional signwriting and not using it so much until today

[Brian Little]

i dont do garages anymore .They want everything free .Because they will be removing point of sale adds in a matter of weeks they dont want to spend the money and yet you’ve used ..and in some cases more material than you’d use on a small van which you will charge a fair price for

[Brian Little]

4ft x 2ft martin

[Brian Little]

mi

[Brian Little]

hi glenn ive dragged the mahl stick over letters more times than i can mind !! other than that no problems

[Brian Little]

thankyou Duncan ! I personally wouldnt of had the main letter that large but thats what he wanted

[Brian Little]

look good ill try these … not that i wrap but when doing large flood coating in the past its hard to find ones that dont scratch especially dark colours

[Brian Little]

quote Neil Somers:

I am a gadget lover and initially this looks like a great idea, but why not just make an app for your phone that can do this. You always have your phone on you and most have a good camera on them. Somthing like this but a dedicated app would be great
https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

i use vynil master(austrailian) it has this facility and works really well

[Brian Little]

lol i your right john :smiles:

[Brian Little]

Ive never had any problems neil to be honest and there was a tin that sat for 3 years.its just one of these paints you have to give a good stir.Its a good colour to mix in with gold size when your doing transfer gold jobs.Its not cheap but i personally think its the best

[Brian Little]

thanks guys just a pity i dident take a picture of finished job but it was difficult to get a clear shot with all the scaffolding

[Brian Little]

Thanks neil I like that one shot gold nearest product I’ve used to gold leaf in my opinion

[Brian Little]

thankyou Ruel !

[Brian Little]

thankyou simon i would have had main letters smaller but customer wanted them stretched so done what i was told for a change

[Brian Little]

mind of these days to neil…always freezing cold sheds…hands frozen onto the side of an x soup tin or whatever ,mahl stick in the other !!

[Brian Little]

quote Duncan Wilkie:

Thank you to Jamie Wood for helping me track down the new Hunter Douglas logo. I promised I would post a picture when I finished the job. All hand painted, wall is 24 m. long, I used pounce patterns and acrylic latex paint. Angled sash brushes for all except the small lettering…

[Brian Little]

looks great but can it still tell you which band your listening to …year and track :smiles:

[Brian Little]

excellent job Duncan especially on that surface where you cant get a full swing at it

[Brian Little]

excellent stuff there

[Brian Little]

looks beautiful tim nice job

[Brian Little]

very nice john 😀

[Brian Little]

go george !! age is no barrier 😀

[Brian Little]

beautiful work there guys

[Brian Little]

nice one george

[Brian Little]

i use vinylmaster its got a great system .you measure the wheelbase…zap it up on the screen and theres your van /car or whatever .Apart from that its the actual vehicle your doing just in case theres badges or whatver in places you wernt expecting. Youll be able to do that with any software your using

[Brian Little]

quote :

However…
I was in Perth, Scotland Last week and I echo what you have just said. the majority of signage was crap. it was very dated, and tired looking. design work etc poor. I actually made a comment that a decent sign maker up here would do well.
i know there are sign makers from Perth on these boards. something for them to consider!

hmmmm i agree rob thankfully cant remmember last shop i did…..a long long time ago the whole bloody town is tired and dated 😕

[Brian Little]

welcome ray …..think yourself lucky yove still got hair to go grey ….hmmm mines getting wat to thin for my liking 😀 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

excellent tim very nice

[Brian Little]

welcome david

[Brian Little]

welcome rob

[Brian Little]

😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 i like it

[Brian Little]

quote DavidRogers:

quote Glenn Sharp:

The Ferrari desk looks impressive, the Connect van looks good, for some reason the fridge is my favourite but I’ve got to be honest Dave and say that the kerning around the A’s on the Cheryl Fitzgerald signs is doing my head in

Thanks for sharing

thanks, was also pleased with desk and fridge especially…kerning, ‘client supplied logo…do not alter’. I should also mention that the letters either side of the A accentuate the gap although the spacing between the serifs are ‘correct’ for the font but not visually even.

Client was over the moon with the job and paid well for it…

should have told them dave …its out, they would have thanked you for it at given there designer an ear bashing

[Brian Little]

nice one neil ill use that to confuse customers 😀 😀 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

quote NeilRoss:

quote John Singh:

quote Steve Maple:

great
do lefties always drop shadow to the left?
or does the sun rise in the east where the lefties live…….

Don’t know the answer to that
One thing for sure with all brushies is that the shadow goes underneath and not at the top

I’m correct am I?…………..am I? 😕

John – For me it’s always been to the left and underneath. Even when I was young in School I loved to look at lettering work and used to draw on my jotters (not to be advised!!!) and it just seemed natural to me to have the light from top-right. For me, having the shadow at the top seems to resemble a 3D letter being viewed from above the horizon, even although it may not have been the intention. If you use a chistle writer, it’s natural to have it rotated ~45 deg to the left (for me anyhow) which aids the form of the stroke going down and underneath in (often) a single sweep depending on the letter size – similar to one stroke or caligraphy. I’ve always thought it more logical and readable to have the shade that way as when the eye tracks left to right along a word or sentence the shadow is left behind and doesn’t have the effect of creating an obstruction for the eye to flow on to the next letter. Getting a bit deep there, I realise!! But it’s amazing what your brain finds to think about when your stand there twiddling the brush! 😀

oh neil your far to sharp for me im only paid from the waist down…i just strike to lines scribble roughly where its gona go and move accordingly 😀 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

Robert you should give it another go…good set of good quality brushes…pure sable chisle writers is my choice . Script lettering as any sign-writer will tell you is the easiest to do light touch for the thin strokes then more pressure on the brush for the thicker…easier to do than to describe if you get my meaning v

[Brian Little]

thankyou guys ….John.. you know ive never gave it a thought ive always done the shading from the left it just seems to come natural

[Brian Little]

nice one mike 😀

[Brian Little]

yeh craig and i suppose if im honest i have dragged the maul stick over it 😀

[Brian Little]

nice one Anthony i like it

[Brian Little]

cheers Chris / Dave sorry for delay i was off ill……you know theres actually a font called allstars iits very similar and it did the job but thankyou

[Brian Little]

thankyou tim and good luck

[Brian Little]

thanks harry

[Brian Little]

thanks simon & john

[Brian Little]

rather look at her anyday

[Brian Little]

😀 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

chapter eight produce reflectives for emergency service vehicles etc etc and all the rules and regulations that go with it to keep you on the right side of the law

[Brian Little]

for martin 😀 can you see what i mean martin ….try and imagine if these were panels…….then place one pointing to the right 😀 ….then go round other side of board and place the other arrow pointing to right…..am i going to fast here martin ? …hey presto its the wrong way 😀

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[Brian Little]

quote Martin Oxenham:

quote Denise Goodfellow:

Lol

When explaining to a customer We do a quick hand drawing on a piece of paper then fold it in half.

Thats the easy bit…..We’re trying to explain it to a SIGNMAKER !

…..very good martin 😀 Im well aware of the correct way to produce an A frame board to point the right direction .It was my fault from the start i picked dave up wrong thinking he had delivered the board to the customer and it was wrong. I thought the board was panels that had slotted in and been put in wrong . Ive since said sorry to david my mistake. Just you pointed out in one of your posts that this couldnt be done wrong. you seem to be ignoring my explantion so ill mabe do a drawing for you 😀

[Brian Little]

hi stu welcome maty

[Brian Little]

oh thats a shame glen try it one day …..see how happy customer would be ill try again one arrow to the right on one side and go round other side of board and also have an arrow pointing to the right i think youll find ones pointing to road the other to shop….mabe ill do you a line drawing tommorow

[Brian Little]

oh thats a shame glen try it one day …..see how happy customer would be ill try again one arrow to the right on one side and go round other side of board and also have an arrow pointing to the right i think youll find ones pointing to road the other to shop….mabe ill do you a line drawing tommorow

[Brian Little]

oh thats a shame glen try it one day …..see how happy customer would be ill try again one arrow to the right on one side and go round other side of board and also have an arrow pointing to the right i think youll find ones pointing to road the other to shop….mabe ill do you a line drawing tommorow

[Brian Little]

which i said in my post glen if youd read it

[Brian Little]

glen your not looking at my post !!! ive said that please martin david and now glen before one of us dies here !!! the correct way would be arrow to right on one side arrow to left on other that way were pointing to the guys shop …ok were all agrred on that ok !!! now say i placed one arrow to the right on one side of board went round other side of board and pointed the other one to the right that would be one pointing to shop the other to road

[Brian Little]

nice no-stick vinyls david 😀

[Brian Little]

Merry Christmas…..merry christmas to you to martin 😀

[Brian Little]

right david …listen here i am with just an A frame …..outside shop….one of the arrow is pointing to the right ,,,,,i then go round the other side of the board and also make the other one point to my right ….am i right that i now have a board with one arrow pointing to the shop and the other one away from the shop or is it me missing something 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

sided board or two separate panels…..course it maters martin it maters a great deal if they were put on panels and the panels were left on one side left on the other ….or if you like right to right it would be wrong …..in this case David im sorry ive read the post wrong for some reason i thought youd actually delivered it on site …..anyway its cheered up the run up to christmas …….ps Martin if you want a better image to put a dunce cap on ill send you it …its just that as far as the dunce cap goes you could have taken into photoshop and made a better job 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

David im not thick …im sure the bloody customer isnt either i know exactly what you mean im just finding it difficult how the customer would think they were wrong in the first place un less they were ………thanks for that martin

[Brian Little]

so did you supply flat panels for the guy you put on an existing A frame Dave? perhaps the frame was ok and he just wanted to replace the panels? thats the only way i can think that mistake can happen or did he just take it out of the car and think hang on here ?

[Brian Little]

yep your right martin thats exactly my point he did infact say it was an a frame one item . Dave didnt say it was panels !! . if the customer is looking at his board and one arrow is pointing to his shop and the othere is pointing to the road then its wrong !! if the guy then phoned him up and and said he had made a mistake then its panels …inserts if you like then i canunderstand that but as i said before we were told its an a frame in which case its been put on wrong at workshop

[Brian Little]

I think your more of a customer than a professional ! Brian….eh thanks for that

[Brian Little]

hmm Mr Rogers your ecuse would work if it was an "A" board as you clearly say in your post Mr Rogers ….but it clearly isnt is it Mr Rogers its seperate panels which would easely be mixed up by a customer 😀 You didnt refer to the product as "them" but "it" which leaves me to the point have you quickly drawn these up to save face 😀 😀 😀 I Rest my case your Honer

[Brian Little]

hmmm sorry john but im afraid im going the RHG route id have to charge you my freind!!

[Brian Little]

I specifically asked for an ‘A’ board with an arrow to point to my shop – I’ve got one side pointing left and one side pointing right – rant – rant feckless idiot…"

well then its still wrong if the guy is sitting looking at it on the pavement and ones pointing away from the shop

[Brian Little]

had that to Phill …..even trying to match bike paint colours really not worth the hassle

[Brian Little]

what any snake oil salesman tells you…..your joking rod ive just bought 40,000 litres of the stuff 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

hi gerry and welcome 😀

[Brian Little]

yip on the few rare occasions i have phoned them ive always found them very helpfull…..loved the computor link up thing where they sort your problem via there software…..pity he couldnet go into my bank of scotland site and put a few extra grand in at the same time 😀

[Brian Little]

hi andy welcome aboard ..enjoy 😀

[Brian Little]

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[Brian Little]

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[Brian Little]

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[Brian Little]

thankyou

[Brian Little]

01468 420 222…number doesnt exist

[Brian Little]

😀 😀 😀

[Brian Little]

thankyou mike ill take a look cheers

[Brian Little]

thanks kevin but looks like hes getting the original guy who lettered the van to do it since i pointed out the lettering on the side is running 20mm down hill

but thankyou anyway Kevin 🙂