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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 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!

23.01.2022 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.

22.01.2022 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.)

22.01.2022 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)

21.01.2022 This was a recent order we've fulfilled- 8 lazy-susans, featuring all former models of the Furphy watercart.

18.01.2022 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.

18.01.2022 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!

18.01.2022 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!)

15.01.2022 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.

13.01.2022 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 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.

13.01.2022 This was a bit of traditional brushwork we did last weekend on this 1951 International truck- and the 'before and after' pic.

12.01.2022 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.

11.01.2022 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!)

08.01.2022 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 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!

05.01.2022 I've not updated much here lately, but the last week makes up for it, as shown below! :)

05.01.2022 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...

03.01.2022 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.

01.01.2022 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! ;)