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Education
2 Examples of Sign Shop Screen Printing
In this day and time, few modern commercial sign shops are doing in-house screen printing, but our little operation in…
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Shop Talk: Large Letter Project
We do many different sign and graphics projects, from screen-printed pipeline signs and waterjet cut logos to laser engraved tags…
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Shop-Built Monument Sign
Recently we were hired by a local medical clinic to produce a new custom, vertical monument sign to go on…
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A Word on Sign Shop Screen Printing
Last May, during the holiday weekend of Memorial Day, it became clear that I would not see any holiday at…
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The Making of a Wood and Metal Hybrid Sign
A client came into the shop from Tyler, Texas, a city about 45 minutes away from the shop, and told…
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In the Trenches: The Great Escape
The way they flew, it was a more a gaggle of small aircraft than an actual formation. Some of the…
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In the Trenches: Paint, Lead and Mellorine
Just the other day, there was a notice in our local paper about the leaded paint still present and easily…
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In the Trenches: And the Pursuit of…
Little grandson Cole, having just turned 4, found himself pleasantly alone at our house a few evenings ago while his…
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In the Trenches: The Gift
I must have been 10 or 11 and my brother less than two years younger, and though we shared a…
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In the Trenches: The Optimist
Well, the shop has been pretty busy lately, and it may be time to consider adding another person to the…
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In the Trenches: Plane Ride Back to the Future
My two sons are co-owners in our CNC cutting and powder coating services company, across from the sign shop here…
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Shop Talk: Using a Laser for a Wordy Wall Sign Job
Not long ago, we completed one of the wordiest sign projects of individual letters and logos I can remember doing.…
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In the Trenches: Signs, Scissors & Boney Fingers
About a week ago, Colton – who is one of our young guys at the powder coating shop, and my…
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In the Trenches: Bus Driver
Mr. Kuykendal was the assistant superintendent of Pine Tree I.S.D., which meant he answered only to the superintendent, was over…
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Salt Water Sanity
All of you “Trenches” readers who are hands-on sign makers and self-employed business people as I am, know how hard…
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Shop Talk: Better Installs, Better Profits
No matter how good one is at designing and making signs, the rubber doesn’t really meet the road until those…
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