[James Martin]

Thanks Guys!

[James Martin]

How did you find the website?

[James Martin]

Thanks David
Have sent them an email.
Jim

[James Martin]

You can feel when your even touching the lacquer.

I always cut by hand in panels and the only time Ive saw rust was on a van I let a suby cut. Butchered it big time and he was meant to be experienced. Funny thing was he taught me a nice method of getting bubble free flood coating in panels with bare vinyl on the same day which I have used loads of times on the same customers vans since.

They’ve never mentioned the rust any time Ive been back to do more work thankfully.

[James Martin]

Thanks Rob
Bought some ss cable ties today because 1 of the signs is on a fence on the street and was worried someone might cut them. Haven’t used these before so everyday is a school day.

[James Martin]

quote David Stevenson:

Use these all the time James. Would hold that size no problem. Nice neat finish if spaced correctly. I always use the horizontal bars to hold the weight of the sign to stop it slipping down. You’ve also the option to cut the excess bolt out for a neater finish if you like and add a lock nut for extra security.

Thanks David

[James Martin]

quote Simon Worrall:

1. Drill a hole in the sign
2. Feed in a cable tie from the back, carry it on round a strand of the fence, and back through the hole in the sign.
3. Place a short length of steel rod over the hole, and tighten the cable tie round the rod.
4. Repeat.

Nice 1 Simon

[James Martin]

Thanks Neil

Why didnt I think of that?

Have you used theses clips? Would they hold a large 7 by 4 size Ali comp?

JIm

[James Martin]

Hi David thanks I’ll contact them on Monday

[James Martin]

Did this outside in the cold which was helpfull as it doesn’t grab as much.

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[James Martin]

Thanks Simon

Its not so much the paint work under the old vinyl as the loss in shine to the general area where the glue has been rubbed around with solvents.

Never been an issue on your standard white van but this was a well looked after black paint job and now I’m being held responsible for something that i’m thinking I’m going to have to protect myself from in future.

Who that does van graphics wants to start warning customers that there paint work will be dulled and they’ll have to have it polished when there trying to sell it on.

Not exactly a helpful selling point.

More and more van are coming out with car quality paint work.

Jim

[James Martin]

Not a wrap Daniel just some chrome and some white vinyl.

Jim

[James Martin]

Just about every business you could do work for wants more signage.

Stick your head in their door and save them the trouble of searching online for a Sign maker.

If I spend £1000 on advertising I’m asking myself; how many vans would I have to do just to pay for that?

Id rather have 1 job on than any amount of ‘enquiries‘.

[James Martin]

Thanks guys

The routerer if there is such a word recons that acm is best but i’ll ask the customer how flat he thinks the substrate will remain and lay the options out.

Jim

[James Martin]

Blade runner flooring designed for gyms, golf clubs, ice rinks etc. Its tough as anything and you can score away on it with hardly any effect with a carpet knife which I use for weeding as well. Got it form a large carpet company we do vans for and its magic.
Not good for nice edges mind you as its not completely smooth.

[James Martin]

Thanks for the replies

Do you think ACM would do the job?

J

[James Martin]

Your privileged Andy

Paul actually phoned me last week and sold me what I thought was the lastest version.

J

[James Martin]

Hi Phill

How are you? haven’t spoke for ages.

Cant remember sticking anything to bare metal but if it passes the masking tape sticky test I would try it?

James

[James Martin]

Thanks Jamie

I’ll give that a try next time!

[James Martin]

thanks every one

Its a classic case of customers problem becoming my problem.

I’ve no done my Xmas shopping yet lol and he wants it done before hand.

Motivation is its cash on completion!

If I made the plaques out of wood instead of foamex and painted them, could I glue the foam letters with bondloc b3294 plastic weld do you think?

james

[James Martin]

nice one.
Didn’t have any boxes, so used the cardboard from AC board delivery.
Pre rolled it round a vinyl tube to give it shape and then wrapped it round the loosley rolled up pre taped paint mask.
Just managed to squeeze it all into some 300 mm lay flat tubing and plenty of parcel tape later I was in the post office que.
James

[James Martin]

Hi Kevin

Just cut with CC using this version of cutting master on a graphtec.

http://downloads.graphtecgb.co.uk/softw … D_V194.zip

Hopefully it keeps working.

[James Martin]

At the moment I’m using cs6 but want to reboot my computer from factory setting.

Am waiting for an adobe chat rep to talk to me.

[James Martin]

Cheers Kevin

I want to do a system restore and I’m worried I cant reinstall cs6 if/when I realise I cant use cutting master on it.

Pain in the back side, lol !

Ive emailed Graphtec to see what there saying.

[James Martin]

Anyone tried using there cutting software plugin with illustrator cc yet?

[James Martin]

I followed the link Neil provided Harry

[James Martin]

Neil look what I just did, nice one!

Its a great wee skeleton program and you have to convert the dft or whatever file to pdf and and then a bit more jiggery-pockery in the pathfinder palette in illustrator but I think I can make it work.

Cheers

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[James Martin]

Hi thanks everyone

This is a bad example of the effect I’m looking to achieve.

Ive got latest illustrator so have live trace but was cutting some coach lines for someone the other day and there is just something interesting about parallel lines.

James

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[James Martin]

Thanks everyone, just got accent to do them…

[James Martin]

HI Keven thanks for that.

Can get a hold of 1.5 mm extruded pvc. do you think that would cut it?

James

[James Martin]

You do some great Stuff Cheryl, congrats!

[James Martin]

Cheers Chris

sent an email to the department of transport marked Urgent and they got back to me with more or less this:

"Vehicles used on the road must comply with the Road Vehicle (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (C&U). However, vehicles must also be maintained so as not to be a danger and Regulation 100 of C&U requires that motor vehicles and their trailers shall at all times be in such condition that no danger is caused or is likely to be caused to any person on a road. "

Also goes on to describe digital signage on mobile adverts which wont apply to me in this case.

[James Martin]

Thnaks Chris there is a indespension in Glasgow.

[James Martin]

email it to me and i’ll try.

[James Martin]

Thanks for that John!

[James Martin]

Ive got it and I’m not looking forward to the paying the full price as I have been on the first year price for nearly a year now.

I got an update to all the apps I currently have on my machine, illustrator cs6, photoshop cs6 and a few other this morning but curiously it also offered my a download of these again but now called illustrator cc and so on, which must stand for creative cloud but I wonder if there is any difference!

[James Martin]

Thanks John

Think your right mate The old styleis Bodega is a bit different form the Bodega regular.

Do you have the bold or black oldstyle by any chance?

Could you type

D. TOBIAS 1995 Ltd.

for me if you do?

[James Martin]

Phill I got an email from some company advertising ceramic signs!

Cant remember much about it but I know ceramics are extra durable and good with heat.

Sure if you googled it something would come up.

Just to add it wasnt hand painted arts and craft applications, more like London place name signs and monuments that sort of thing.

[James Martin]

Got to bump this one its doing my head in.

[James Martin]

OTOMO ?

[James Martin]

Nice on Jamie!

Thank you.

[James Martin]

Just got some 10mm thick flooring from a customer and first impressions are good.
Been cutting on it and it barely shows the marks, and its heavy, just sits there without moving.
It’s called ‘Blade Runner’ flooring and its used in gyms, locker rooms, ice-rinks and the likes.
Think it’s about 35 quid a linear metre which is better than 250 for 10 mm toughend glass which would have been first choice.

[James Martin]

cheers Colin will do.

[James Martin]

Thanks Russell I think it’ll be the BICSc thing that will be difficult.

[James Martin]

just drew it up David, 😉

[James Martin]

That any good for the waves?

Don’t have that font

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[James Martin]

Cant see the logo David

[James Martin]

Having difficulty. check your pm’s.

[James Martin]

Cheers Neil!

[James Martin]

Not exactly but ive got one sort of like it if its any use?

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[James Martin]

You could do anything Paul.

[James Martin]

I’m well impressed that you made those with a home made machine!

[James Martin]

Good stuff for the portfolio there.

[James Martin]

Had the customer over there to see what going on and luckily he accepts the damage as an unaviodable consequence of having fitted reflective straight onto the paintwork.

Next time I will be giving a warning that this could happen before I start.

thanks everyone

[James Martin]

One of the Eurostyles I think

[James Martin]

thread bump:

Well you can upgrade now or before 31st of august for £337 for the first year! (If you have a creative package already: cs3 or above)

anyone got any more comments on this way of buying your software?

James

[James Martin]

He could have did it in Chinese and English as well when he was there!

[James Martin]

Is a good looking bit of work as well, bet you were happy with the first time you fitted.

I’d be well pi£$ed!

Redoing it I would think would be the least hassle in the long run though.

Do the suppliers keep copies of locator’s templates?

I’m trying to imagine the process of how they make these letters up?

Can they not just repeat the order?

James

[James Martin]

Thanks for that!

Its perfect!

James

[James Martin]

Cheers guys

Any chance of outlines for ‘mcnab travel’ with an optional Capital ‘B’ and ‘R’

James

[James Martin]

Ye you can’t beat talking to people for getting business. On the phone or walking round the industrial estates. Never wait for the phone to ring.

[James Martin]

Thanks Chris!

😀

[James Martin]

Like the coluor combinations Jason.

James

[James Martin]

Wow….sorted!

Thanks everyone!

James

[James Martin]

Hi Rob

Thanks mate, It was more that one particular mitre I was worried about.

Bought some Eurotrim recently, hadn’t bought any for a while and was surprised at the drop in quality.

Must be down to metal prices I suppose.

James

[James Martin]

Nice work Ben

I thought the the menswear one said ‘Prom *luts’ at first from that angle!

James

[James Martin]

Saved that in my inspiration folder Neil!

[James Martin]

Mr Earl looks spot on to me.

Thanks Dan and Jill.

[James Martin]

Think this guy could do it as well

http://www.damar-printing.co.uk/

[James Martin]

Hi John

You could identify the font using a web sire called ‘what the font’ but the shapes would have to be drawn with a vector editing programme like illustrator.

James

[James Martin]

Congrats Karl!

[James Martin]

Looks the part.

How did you stick it? (db tape)?

Jimmy

[James Martin]

Gave them a phone and someone is going to get back to me.

James

[James Martin]

Tks Jamie

Tried it and you were right it did open but there is only a bounding box!

Might be a security thing?

Anyone out there got anything newer than cs3?

regards

James

[James Martin]

What about bike chains?

[James Martin]

Tks Robert

It doesn’t have to swing.

I was worried about one piece of composite fatiguing where it meets the brackets with movement in the wind but obviously it must be ok.

James

[James Martin]

Its not something I would do as every job is different and I like to get as much as I think I can get away with each time.

Its a good habit to get into because it you feel your getting a little over the odds for something you tend to do a better job I find anyway.

[James Martin]

Tks Harry.

Will have a look when I get back home later.

James

[James Martin]

Drat

Here’s me getting all excited as well.

I’ll have to get out/online more.

James

[James Martin]

Its good!

Identified Rockwell Extra Bold Regular from a business card in the time it took me between these two posts.

James

[James Martin]

And a thanks from me to Phill! 😀

[James Martin]

That look like an amazing space to work Warren, Whats the outside like? is it in a good area?

Have you got a sign yet?

Good time of year to make the shift.

It must be a relief to get the space back in your house as well I’d have thought.

James

[James Martin]

HI Jan

I meant the coated bit round the bumper with the fluorescent.

James

[James Martin]

Thanks Jan

Thats a good depiction of what to expect from the black reflective.

I like the volvo as well.

What kind of flourecent vinyl is that? As I cant imagine the stuff I have used being that conformable.

James

[James Martin]

Cooper is fast and impact is great for builders, but if its no style and safe they want I give em Myriad Pro; no reason, its just the default software choice and its got 10 weight/italic choices.

James

[James Martin]

Hi Lorrainne

I would have thought it would have been alot easier to find a good Pub manager than someone to fill your boots running a sign shop.

James

[James Martin]

http://www.flextraction.co.uk/

Looks pricey mind you

[James Martin]

Tks Fred

Talked the customer into Azure Blue.

cheers Buddy

[James Martin]

The price they are quoting me is before VAT! 👿

[James Martin]

I can work with that Graham.

Tks! 😎

[James Martin]

It’s either really hard or so easy it doesn’t warrant a reply?

[James Martin]

tks for the replies

Thinking about using it for my own vehicle branding,

James

[James Martin]

Had me going for a minute:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=460_1295548580

[James Martin]

All the best in 2011!

James

[James Martin]

quote Peter Normington:

quote Hugh Potter:

A new customer told me off for saying ‘including vat’ rather than ‘no vat’ recently but, still went ahead with the order! Hugh

Hugh, I hope you have not stated that in writing on your invoice or quotes.
if you have it is actually fraudulent, because your customers would expect to claim the vat back, if they try to, you could be in trouble mate.

Peter

Drat! I must have did the same thing as Hugh a hundred times!

Anyway, to add my obviously under informed opinion I dont think it will affect me as most stuff I do is vinyl only so vat is minimal.

On a related point however: Do you think that someone non VAT like myself could benefit from advertising his non VAT registered status?

Would advertsing that attract or repel customers regardless of the VAT increase?
Would it attract or repel less or more customers with the VAT increase?

James

[James Martin]

Fitted this wee beauty 3 weeks ago and belieive me it was less than 0 degrees, havent had any call back yet touch wood.

Saying that if the job required a smart finish I woudnt have tried it.

James

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[James Martin]

It looks interesting………what is about?

James

[James Martin]

Yes George

Thanks very!

😎

[James Martin]

Some of those are really impressive the tomos one especialy and the smart car.

James

[James Martin]

Thanks Rob! Nice sign as well, even with a wee bit of spotting….😂