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Arab Brushstroke std (D) looks pretty close.

Just an observation, the curve of text doesn't quite match the oval. Personally it'd bug the crap out of me every time I saw it.

As in wear it once and throw it away? ha!

All the grayed out/locked stuff is not available and can't be made available.

daFont.com says it's Tiki Surf.

I had to do that with a 48" role that was given to me. Just cut it to size with a miter saw, worked great.

Inkscape should be able to open them. If the file truly blank or is everything white and blends in with the background. I've had that happen on files from time to time.

You're numbers total up to 2100.

Single color.

Buddy of mine wants to wrap his bike. Any suggestions on where to find the best price on vinyl wrap and about how much he'd need for a sport bike? I've already told him about fellers, any place else he should check out?

Just don't make shows like that any more.

Technically, you don't need to ground the cutter, it is already grounded, but you do need to ground the vinyl. Typically that's accomplished by grounding the stand the cutter and vinyl sit on.

One of the biggest things new people seem to have a hard time understanding is Vector images vs raster images. Do a little reading up on vectors and it will help greatly when you dive in. I'd also suggest downloading Inkscape and play around with it a little. Inkscape is a free vector program. It takes some getting use to, and some things are little cumbersome to do, but for the most part it can do all that the big name vector programs can do, and best of all, it's free. As for the numbers relating to the Oracal vinyl, that is simply model numbers. 631 is Oracals indoor wall vinyl, designed to be removable. 651 is calendared outdoor vinyl designed to last 3 to 5 years, there is also 751, 951, and several other models with various properties.

But where do you draw the line though, if you see someone rob someone, do you let it slide or call the cops? Just stirring the pot.

I like the "Some Assembly Required"

If you're paid to make a design I don't believe that still means the person owns the work you created, it would depend on the contract, if there was a contract. Kind of like a photographer, you pay them to take photos of you, or your event, but they still own the photo and copyright. Some photographers will sell you the copyright, but that's only been a recent development in the industry, and is mostly done by the amateur turned semi-pro photographers. If they guy wants the original art, and is willing to pay for it, I'd sell it to him.

Cool. hydro dip?

Made this for a friend. Was originally just going to do the logo but I thought it'd look even better if I could put his bike on it. Wasn't sure how well the bike would look fully etched and lit so I made the bike vinyl and etched the edge so that it would have a halo type glow when on. I think it came out really well and looks even better in person.

yeah, media blast with aluminum oxide, 120 grit.

There was a formula posted on here some place about how to account for the arch of the windshield. When I made mine I took some paper layed it out on the window, then drew a line on the paper that was 6" from the top of the window. By the time I was done I had a pretty serious arch. Took a photo of the finished product, pulled it into inkscape and created a vector to match. The arch of mine was significant enough that I had to adjust the words/design to follow the arch so that they appeared straight when it was installed on the car.

I tried that. The LEDs do light up with a 9V battery, but not for very long. After about 30min you see a very noticeable drop in brightness. I picked up a double AA battery holder that holds 8 batteries, it'll get me the necessary 12V and should be able to power my signs for several hours before brightness drops.

The image is the Wolfsburg Coat of Arms. Wolfsburg is home to the Volkswagen AG's headquarters and the biggest car plant in the world. The LEDs are simple LED Strip lights that I got from lightingever.com. Just connect them to a 12V PSU and you're good to go.

What are you having trouble with? If you know/can find the fonts, this should be pretty easy to recreate. Post up what software you're using and the trouble you're having and I'm sure several people will be able to walk you through the process for your software.

Did some searching, you can use the runas command but that will require you to enter the password every time the program runs. If that's acceptable it's a quick and easy solution. If you don't want to have to enter the password, looks like the program/command PsExec will allow you to create a batch file to run a program with admin rights. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

Have you tried creating a batch file to run the program you want and put the batch file, or a shortcut to the batch file in the startup folder?