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Wow, thanks, that's really helpful. 1) The customer was supposed to provide me with a list of shirt sizes so I could order them. The customer kept procrastinating delaying and went out and bought the shirts at Wal-Mart herself when I told her it was too late for me to order them. 2) Going the extra mile for a customer is a good thing, not something to criticize someone for. 3) It wasn't my choice. 4) Nothing you said helps explain why the letters fell off and what I can do to keep them from falling off a second time, nor do your comments serve any useful purpose other than trying to make yourself appear superior. 5) Refer to #4.

My personal opinion is that it looks like crap. It looks like it's swirling and going down a drain...

That is the way it is supposed to look!

this is junk compaired to you hydro dipping. you all do stickers and can see how well they hold up. I print decals all the time and you wouldn't catch me putting this on any of my guns

you know, I should really come back and check my posts more often to answer questions. Joker, I spelled the name wrong from an above post.- sorry . EL = I wash and wear mine . Has held up fine. K5 = the vinyl didn't give a "pulled" look, if that what you were wondering. People have been impressed with the look and the "soft feel". Bought my scarves at Walmart. Thanks for the compliments. Wesdog = yes it is a purchased font. Vine Monogram from Fontbros.

Found a new, easy source of money - video game nerd gatherings! Some friends of mine have put together a video game conference here in town the past three years. This year my decal business was the title sponsor of the event and I had a booth setup cutting custom decals on demand - first time I've ever taken my gear to a venue, instead of just pre-made decals - was definitely worth it! I had a few dozen pre-made decals on the table and about half way through the first day a guy asked if I could make a decal of his "gamer tag" (the names they use online for gaming) that he could put on his XBOX 360 (see example below). I said "sure" - he told me what he wanted and a few minutes later I handed him a simple 2-color text only decal and charged him $5 (yeah, I know, that is low, but this event was more about getting my name out and less about making huge profits) - and then he came back a few minutes later and his son wanted one - but he wanted one for each side of his XBOX so that was $10. Then he decided he'd better get 2 for his daughter, too - I've made $25 off of this guy in <30 minutes. Then once the other gamers started seeing them installed, they started lining up at my booth and at that point my Graphtec turned into a cash printing machine. By the end of the 3 day event, I had cranked out over 80 custom decals, plus sold another 30+ pre-mades and have orders for even more to complete tomorrow. I had one guy bring me the side panel from his computer case - it had a big scratch in it and he wanted a large dragon design to cover the scratch and he even provided the artwork, which made it so much easier. Another guy is into BMX biking and he brought me the front number plate off of his bike on the last day and had me do a design for that, too. It was an awesome weekend! People just kept coming to me with ideas and I turned them (the ideas, not the customers) into vinyl decals. At the end of Day 2, I went to Wal-mart with the intention of buying a large screen monitor to hook to my laptop that I could turn it towards the crowd and let people see what I was working on (I was getting tired of people leaning over the table to proof their design). They were out of stock on any big monitors and so I ended up buying a 42" LCD/LED TV with VGA inputs and using that instead... I made enough on quickie decals to pay for the TV and pay the obscene concession stand prices (Seriously, $3 for a 12 oz. soda?) for 3 days and still show a profit. And in the morning before it got busy, I was able to crank up MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) and play some Mortal Kombat and other games on the big screen... Nerd-vana! I also had a bunch of dye-subbed items on display and for sale and took a bunch of orders for more of those items. I did the award plaques for the gaming tournaments using the Streamline Awards from Conde - those cost less than $4 each and although small, look awesome (see pic below). Any ways... if you know anyone into video gaming, ask if they know of any LAN party events and see if you can get yourself invited - you may find that everybody there wants their gamer tag on their console, too! First place I ever saw a vinyl cutter in action was at a Ham Radio convention and they were cutting out call letter decals for Ham nerds and they were busy all day for two days cutting Arial Black numbers and letters 2" high in single colors - you just need to find a gathering of people who want to convey a simple message - their gamer tag, their call letters, whatever and then cater to that and you can make some big bucks without a lot of effort.

Don't know about a copyright....Its all over the interwebs. I found it on the Wikimedia as a svg.

buster try this

Monkey I use paint mask with 180 ao at about 20psi because that give me more time to carve the area with out tearing up the mask. I try to blast about 1/32 to 1/16 so the light can catch the edge a light it up a little better. I almost always blast on the 2nd surface. The lights I use are these http://www.autozone.com/autozone/accessories/Lighting/LED-Lighting/_/N-261j

I had a guy not too long ago that wanted me to make a larger decal for him. He wanted it in one piece. I told him I was not able to do it. My cutter was not large enough. So then, as he stated, because I could not do his design in the larger size, like he wanted, then I should just send the vector design to someone else, he chooses, to do it for him. I explained I hold the license to this design, it is copyrighted. Then he wanted to buy it. I had to get stern with him, and tell him, as I already stated, the design is copyrighted. That is why there are copyright laws. I want no part of it. End of discussion.!!

The ironic part of this is that the American made stuff gets destroyed and the seller jailed for it while all of the "real stuff" is made overseas... To me, the only "winners" here are the attorneys. Cal

I'm sure you'll only do it once. ha!

I Know I Know.eps

Your welcome.. Now don't ya wish you would have been using the Graphtec all this time? Congrats, carry on. .. Graphtecs are great cutters.

Here are my thoughts on the current administration...

I have some rabbits feet and four leaf clovers.

I sent an email to the school board - they forwarded it their lawyer - who responded and let me know that public school names are public domain as well as most of the school logos. Certain logos are copyrighted by their artists and the school(s) have free license to use them and I could send any designs to them for review if necessary. I also had to agree to avoid anything disparaging or of questionable taste involving the school's names and/or logos.

Summer in the south = it melted on fine . Heat does wonders to make vinyl stick even in iffy situations.

You can write directly to the company and request they provide you with it. http://angryorchard.com/#!/contact-us/

Nobody will post it here because Browning is copyright protected and posting copyright protected files can get you banned.

Guess that rules out "plausible deniability"...

I pay my daughter $1.00 to weed each one I cut. She weeded 20 tags yesterday. Well worth it to me..

Thanks for the houndstooth. I sell tons of Alabama/Auburn/Tennessee stuff. Mine are mostly tags and coasters, but I'm now doing stick figures, too. I'm thinking a houndstooth hat on one of them will go over great around here. Carol

Here is a tag..