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Traditional Signs

Locality: Peranga, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4692 8292

Address: Oakey-Cooyar Rd, Nutgrove, via 4352 Peranga, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.traditionalsigns.com

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25.01.2022 We made these 60mm deep internally illuminated letters in-house and installed them last week at Aspley as part of a refurbishment- we last did this shop in 2009, so 9 years is a good innings. I think this might be our 25th shop for Crown. Each one is a tad different which makes it interesting!

25.01.2022 We're calling this big 3D coat of arms, crest and motto finished at last, as well as the small domed wooden brass bed rosette we've hand painted to match. The big one is about 80cm tall, made in Multipanel HDU, the small one is 14cm tall, made in hoop pine, stained to walnut.

24.01.2022 Part 1 of 4 below: Another old AJS bike tank I striped a few years ago, using gold bronze powder mixed in 2-pack urethane clear.

23.01.2022 Positive and negative! Two steam engine plaques we've replicated in 1/8" brass this week. The first has the letters which we chemically etched, then paint-filled, while the second has the background we engraved out- to resemble a casting- then paint-filled. They're approximately 5"x10" each.

20.01.2022 This interesting job came in recently- the client wanting a 3D relief made , from this picture of their coat of arms. The finished coat of arms will be about 70cm tall. This is just a test piece I did tonight to suss out out the 3D file on the router, and is just 14cm wide (you can see my hand holding it in one of the photos). The client was particular about the font for the motto being exactly right, and it was no normal font, but a handwritten one, so I created and vect...orised that This timber is Aussie Crows Ash, which holds detail well, but the big coat of arms will be in high density urethane, then painted and gilded.

20.01.2022 We designed and screen-printed this Jacko's Hawaiian Bowls Day shirt logo for the Riethmuller family, who have just been awarded the local Australia Day community event of the year. Congratulations Jenny, Courtney, Craig a nd Bryce!

19.01.2022 A bit of a contrast in skills for us this afternoon in town: pinstriping, recreating exactly the the old lines on this Studebaker by hand and brush, then a regular contract signage and print installation on a shop window in Grand Central.

19.01.2022 The latest updates from Traditional Signs: A test piece of just the 3D dragon alone, at 3/4 final size on crows ash, the Ipswich nameplate on a train- I was asked to do four of these to look old-style for the assorted historic train expeditions when they happen, and a 41 x 31 cms grave plaque we lasered on aluminium for the wife of a friend.

19.01.2022 A builder's trailer repainted, designed and signwritten by us for Nick, who's built several houses, but is now starting out on his own. Give him a call if you need concreting, renovations, extensions or patios built!

18.01.2022 Before and after: a special job we painted today at Old Petrie Town museum. The new building gets its official naming ceremony tomorrow. (P.S. No vinyl was used or abused in this job- it's all brush painted!)

18.01.2022 Have you ever seen a furphy on a Furphy? I made this spelling mistake quite by accident , but it was decided to leave it there for amusement's sake - and because it was a genuine furphy, in both ways! The other side has Furphy spelled correctly.

17.01.2022 This evening we finished painting and installing the last part of 'stage 1' of our new local sign/landmark- the elevation/altitude panel. There used to be a sign on the highway here listing the elevation, but someone knocked it over 3 or 4 years ago, and the council never replaced it. The railway bridge (or rather, the remnants of it) is at the bottom or northern end of our property about 800m downhill from this sign. The Oakey-Cooyar railway line ran past here from 1913 unti...l 1961. I shovelled the ballast last night and put the sleepers and section of rail underneath just for added sympathy with the nature of the sign. I was very fortunate to get to meet and take down a story, from the late Ernie Hills about 10 years ago. Ernie was the last actual steam train driver on this line. I put much of his story on an interpretive signage display at the Muntapa Railway Tunnel Park nearby, when we did that signage in about 2010. The Great Dividing Range right here at the southern edge of our property marks the boundary or division e between the Murray-Darling basin catchment, and the Brisbane Valley rain catchment areas (whenever it happens to rain). This sign is on the Oakey-Cooyar Rd, 45 km north of Oakey. (These two pics show the left and right views- a big ironbark tree blocks the front-on view!)

17.01.2022 We've just made this 2-layer lasered cut and engraved pic, plain and stained, of the world map as it was known in 1708, and as drawn by Jean Baptiste Nolan. Australia wasn't fully known then, so it was updated a little later- some artistic liberties have been taken with improvements, and large river systems added. This measures 73cm wide overall, by 48.5 cm tall. (We did do a fully 3D version of this 1708 map about a year ago, but the router had a hissy fit halfway through and destroyed it in a blink - due to static in the air from a distant thunder storm - so another attempt at that version will be on the cards soonish!)

17.01.2022 I just found these four pics I thought I'd lost. We totally built this thoroughbrace coach here entirely new, in 1999- 2000 (however I had someone else make the wheels) There's scarcely a straight stick of timber in it - pretty well everything is curved and stylish. The body swells widest in the middle front to back as well as top to bottom. The curves in the door help illustrate that. (It makes most other straight-sided imitation coaches pale into insignificance and look fairly bodgied, when you start really looking into proper old detail.)

16.01.2022 This was a bit of traditional brushwork we did last weekend on this 1951 International truck- and the 'before and after' pic.

15.01.2022 A quick request for a routed hardwood timber sign, resulted in us finishing this today. The letters are burned with the oxy to simulate having been branded in. The timber is a nice old piece of well-seasoned blackbutt, which is a very pale eucalypt. It's about to get oiled. J

13.01.2022 At the Ekka... I signwrote this Furphy watercart some years ago. Interestingly, few people realise the 'dad joke' inherent in the job I did. look at the spelling: it's a furphy on a Furphy! ;)

11.01.2022 Three recent jobs weve done that are a bit different from the norm: 1. A birthday plaque routed in hoop pine for a beekeeper, 2.four replica antique railway line section staffs or keys, 3.And a set of cork coasters, hand painted with the AJS motorbike logo. (I have yet to stripe the tank, but being all chrome, it's tricky and mustn't be rushed)

11.01.2022 Striping an old AJS motorbike tank this afternoon... i think I'm getting too old for this painting on chrome lark- it's SO hard to focus on where you're supposed to line when it's all slippery AND reflecting the ceiling! It's gold bronze powder mixed in 2K urethane clear, and all brushed and double-coated to help opacity. I brush-painted the logo on each side of the tank, too, instead of using a water-slide transfer.

10.01.2022 What is it they say about plumbers' houses and mechanics' cars not getting attended to? At last we've signwritten the front of our van- it's only taken me about 35 years to get around to designing and making it the way we wanted it to look! Yes, 'signs' is 3D, to look embossed out of the bonnet, and gilded with 24 carat gold leaf. In a few weeks, it might get some lining and subtle scrollwork.... (With much thanks to Stewart McLaren for the inspiration!)

10.01.2022 This was a recent order we've fulfilled- 8 lazy-susans, featuring all former models of the Furphy watercart.

10.01.2022 Two recently completed brass steam engine plaques, made to measure to specific arc radii and depth- one with raised letters (look alike cast), and the other one etched.

10.01.2022 We've just designed and screenprinted this layout for next weekend's Barellan Working Clydesdale Days in the Riverina area NSW. Except for one photo, we took the photos, too.

08.01.2022 Our latest update on the Yarraman Railway Station Park interpretive centre, its a comical picture board for photographs. Thanks to all who helped!

07.01.2022 Progress pics of the 3D coat of arms we're making for a customer. The big one is around 65 cm tall, and up to 3 cm thick, and sitting on either white or a maroon background. The smaller 14cm diameter domed one is for a brass bed end. Sundance was routed in a piece of camphor laurel for another customer, as their house name.... Entry and Exit are brush painted at a local steel yard. See more

07.01.2022 Today we fitted two lithophanes in the interpretive centre in Yarraman. The picture with Joan in it gives you an idea of the scale of them! When back-lit with a...fternoon sun they look great! (Lithophanes are a kind of 3D negative, which when back-lit, radiate a picture like a positive or a black-and-white photo) Further surprises in a month!

06.01.2022 Here's a job that came in recently. The house was apparently built in 1860 in Toowoomba, but the gilded name panel was falling to bits. We undid it, cleaned the deteriorated paint and asphaltum off, re-hand-lettered and regilded it in 24ct gold leaf, then reassembled it, saving the 1929 newspaper backing hidden in it, fir the owners to frame, and putting a modern one in to maybe be discovered in 90 year's time!

06.01.2022 It was somewhat flattering to be invited to be one of four hands-on demonstrators at the Brisbane Visual Impact signage trade show over the last three days, in their traditional skills section. Industry greats Rod Tickle, Jeff Marshall and Liane Barker joined me (Ian) for three days of PR and getting back to basics amid a field of the latest and greatest electrically powered lasers, printers and routers on offer to the trade. I think our booth was about the most visually int...eresting there, and the crowds seem to descend there especially today, to just enjoy watching or talking about industry issues.(or to smell enamel once again! ;) ) A good time was had by all!

06.01.2022 Creating a new local 'landmark'... the computer rendition I made up, and the actuals. Size about 2 x 3.1 metres All in urethane paint. The black and white photo we created by coating a white panel in black lacquer paint, making a halftone dither of the edited photo, then lasering off the black from where we didn't want it. Finally, applying a 2k urethane clear coat over it.... Installation will happen sometime after it cools down a bit! I might repaint the dates in black though...

06.01.2022 We recently recreated this EK Holden ute emblem for a customer, making it from 1/8" solid brass, based only on two remnants of the original die-cast one.

05.01.2022 Here are two more 1/8" brass plaques we've recently made by request, for steam engines that were missing theirs.

04.01.2022 Here's a quick summary of this morning's activities at Yarraman: the official opening of the new interpretive railway station centre we've had as a signage project under our belts over the past 12 months. It's been a tremendous project allowing us the opportunity to be really creative for the benefit of the community, in bringing the old railway station park back to life, recreating stories and images of its origins and heydays... Many thanks, Yarraman Progress Association, plus Helen & Terry, the Stanwell crew, and TRC!

04.01.2022 I've not updated much here lately, but the last week makes up for it, as shown below! :)

04.01.2022 Here's a little bit of brushwork from the last two days. No vinyl or tape was used or abused! It's therapeutic to get back into signwriting with a brush again these days!

03.01.2022 A new perpetual trophy weve just made for the upcoming Gatton field days- the former trophy is all filled up. Thanks Carolyn and Trevor, and Daniki Heavy Harness Horses. P.S. the ribbon at the top is 30cm wide.

02.01.2022 With Christmas on the horizon, here are three pictures of nativity scenes we've recently made for customers. The big one is 6 ft wide, 2 ft high, and made up in 4 layers.