USMC3225

really nice

word will spread pretty fast with you doing that kind of work... you may be getting busy whether you like it or not... no advertising required...

Everyone on here is very honest and gives the best advice to improve and or fix something to make it better than what it currently is. It is only to help you advance your skills or through a road block of sorts. I do agree with everyone though. The art is very good and if it were on your store front window the comments may be a bit different. Yes, being on your tail gate with people following you does give them more time to read it, but the people that are more than likely to call you for your services are going to be looking for how you effectively display your own graphics as well. The art is spot on but the readability of the advertisement is not and that may cost you the better side of business.

Now that's not right.... lol

Exact same way I do it and has never failed me yet.

A catalog is the way to go. I keep a catalog for vinyl and another for dimensional signs. Maybe one day I will have one for print/dye sub, just not in the budget at the moment.

Yeah the wind is certainly the worst part of going up.

My insurance wont cover me or anything or anyone for any damages or injuries if I go above 47 feet. Not exactly sure why the odd number though... I occasionally will take a job pushing 40 feet but don't like taking anything above 30. I had a company in the city ask me to hang a dimensional between floors 6 & 7 and the only access was the roof were they had winches for the window washers to repel down. I would have had to repel almost two stories to hang a one piece sign aprox 8' by 4'. I told them I wasn't even going to quote a price bc I was afraid they'd accept it.

Id be in the $600 range too. The wind will give you a challenge that high up with that large of a graphic in one piece. It may seem calm on the ground but the higher you go the more wind you will have. I only go 30' up and that's usually with dimensional letters on store fronts.

lol.. I know right... Its not a government job but because of permits that the company needs it needs to meet certain government requirements because they will be obstructing a waterway with frequent small craft travel. I sent them over a quote. Thanks for the input it really helped.

20 per sqft actually sounds really good to me right in around my profit margins. Sounds a little high to me since they only need them hung for about 5 days during the project, but gov regs say they need them sign put up or the fines will cost them a hell of a lot more.. I do use clean cut blades wouldn't use anything but.. Thanks for letting me know about tubelite. I will be sending them my application for the esales tomorrow to see their prices and what shipping might be. The closest location they have to me is about 4 hours away in NJ. I used to have a local supplier that gave me really good deals on Alum. but he retired and I had to resort to Grimco for a lot of things. I just hate paying their shipping charges.

First time needing some help pricing a job... I just landed a contract with a natural gas company doing there signs (well contract pending this job). I need to come up with a price for 10 4' x 4' signs using Oralite 5500 reflective. The signs have basic lettering and a 2" reflective boarder. All lettering and boarder are reflective. The signs will be placed on aluminum base. I was going to use Max-metal from Grimco. Never have done a job this large with such high stakes. Pricing help and any tips, tricks, or donations welcome... Thanks for the help in advance.

Harbor Freight is about an hour from me... like everything else lol... but I have tons of tools from them. I buy most of my bigger power tools from sears bc I like craftsman tools but if Im not going to be using it hard of its a good enough deal I will buy from Harbor Freight especially hand tools bc they have a lifetime warranty and are cheap. I might have to hit them up for a cheap band saw. I wont use it much but every now and again I do wish I had one. Maybe a scroll saw as well.

I'm pretty good with the router but would imagine it would leave rough edges that need to be cleaned up. I thought about using a band saw but that is the one thing I don't have as of yet. I have used my router to cut kydex for holsters and just run it over the belt sander to clean the edges. That rotozip tool looks pretty much like a jig saw without the pulling of the blade, may have to look into that thing.

I just got a job for quite a few coro signs to promote a detailing business. The shape of the sign has to be a 50's classic like the one they use for their logo. How do you think a router would work to cut multiple coro signs at one time? I looked around and nobody sells blanks in the shape I need.