Busy Summer

Since I have not taken the time to update these pages for a while I thought I could share one of the projects we installed over the summer.
The Cutting Edge is a great place for hair cuts for men and women. And for the ladies they offer lots of other services too like color, nails, waxing (ouch!)
We had a chance to use one of the old and almost forgotten techniques on this job. Smalts...take a look!
Its a carved dimensional panel with hammered copper finish on the outer ring and flourishes, prismatic cut white letters, and black smalts background. The glass smalts reflects a slight green that complements the copper finish. A couple bullet spots from above and you can see this one for block in either direction.

Annual Celebrity Autograph & Memorabilia Auction

We will be hosting the annual fund raiser for Crawford Area Scholarships on June 6th at the Meadville, PA SERTOMA Club on Baldwin Street Extension. There are almost 200 different items signed by sports stars, movie stars, authors, cartoonists, musicians, just about any category you can think of! Door open for preview and the silent portion of the auction at 11am. The LIVE bidding starts at 1pm and will only last a couple hours. So, don't come late or the items you wanted might be gone!

If you need directions or want more information call me at 1-814-336-8554!

Cut Your Lighting Bill in Half!

Check this out! You can reduce power consumed in lighting your office or entire building with this UL approved LED retro-fit kit that replaces the tubes & ballasts in your existing overhead fixtures! It takes only about 10 minutes to install and can save as much as 70% on your electric usage! And get this, your electric company may PAY YOU to do it! First Energy (in PA) offers a cash incentive to replace your fluorescent tube/ballast lighting with more efficient systems! Our LED units completely eliminate the potential mercury hazards of fluorescent tubes in your environment and the costly disposal methods they require. (You can't just put them in the trash you know...that's against the law)

Give us a call to see how much money you can save by making the change today! 1-814-336-8554

April 17th update

We have a poster! Look at all the great bands that have agreed to participate! There's rock, blues, funk, even a little country.
The main act is The Breeze Band from Erie. If you were at the Wine Harvest Fest in North East last fall you heard 'em playing Motown, R&B, and rock. They're one of the best we have heard.
You can meet players from The Erie Storm football team. Watch hula hoopers, get a massage, even have a haircut while you listen to some of the best bands in the area. The event is one of two fundraisers that provide scholarships to local students. So come out and have fun with us. The Beach Club at Conneaut Lake Park is open to the public and will be have food and beverages available. There will be great door prizes too. The drawings will be held several times during the day so you won't have to stay for the entire event!
Hope to see you there!
-Al

April 17th

Mark the day on you calendar and come to the Beach Club at Conneaut Lake Park. We are lining up a full day of live music and some live comedy. There will be door prizes, a chance to win a 42" plasma HDTV, other raffles, food, beverages (adult and otherwise), and lots of fun starting at noon and running until closing time.

And if you haven't had those curly locks cut in a while the girls from the Cutting Edge will be there giving hair cuts from 1pm to 3pm. And they are donating all the money they take in for the hair cuts to Crawford Area Scholarships. This is local group that provides merit based scholarships to students graduating from high schools located in Crawford County, PA. You can find out more about them at www.crawfordscholarships.org

So bring your bike, dust off the old car, or dive your lawnmower just get here and have some fun to kick off the season at the Park and help support a great local organization and the students of the area!

More Than Signs

We are asked to do some really special things every now and then. Like this whiskey tray to display some treasured bottles of the Irish. Its made from maple and has the names of the favored brands engraved on the front.

Merry Chirstmas

Less than 4 days to finish your shopping! As usual we are working long hours to finish orders in time for Christmas and we ought to be right on time with them all!

Just a point to keep in mind when ordering a custom carved and painted sign from us or any other sign maker. Paint only dries so fast and bad things usually



happen when you try to rush it. So when we say it will take 2 weeks it is not because we don't like to work and we went fishing, usually:) its because we need time for the processes to work. Paints need time to dry, off gas, whatever you want to call it before additional colors are added or finish top coats are applied. If you rush it the finish will look like it was wadded up and thrown away, all wrinkled. And if you are getting gold leaf work done...that also takes time to get right.

Well, here are a couple of our most recent jobs. All three plaques are HDU with lettering enamel colors and a top coat of UV protective clear. The green one is for a family campsite. The other two are for the respective parents of a husband & wife. They don't live near each other so they went with the same design for each.