Sanctuary signs, lands preserved signs etc....

deeksofdoom

Lads,

I'm looking to source some signs for the club. Not that polyboard stuff, or laminated paper, but durable plastic like diebond, I want to put them up once and never have to do anythng with them ever again. I have been qoted €6-€7 for A4 sized land preserved signs, I was thinking of getting 100. Has anyone bought some recently or do they know of anyone supplying them,

Regards

Deeks

91hilux

why dont you design one in colour ,print off a few and get them laminated . get some old election signs cut to required size and place your prints on the reverse side staple together hey presto there ready
i done about 60 this year for myself and they turned out perfect
cost me about 10 euro and very professional i might add

Spraypaint + Stencil + Election Poster backwards.= Good Sign.
Very cheap and cheerful too.

fiacha

I saw these guys advertised on the NARGC website. Not sure what the club discount is.

(No personal interests in this business)

deeksofdoom

91hilux wrote: »

why dont you design one in colour ,print off a few and get them laminated . get some old election signs cut to required size and place your prints on the reverse side staple together hey presto there ready
i done about 60 this year for myself and they turned out perfect
cost me about 10 euro and very professional i might add

Deleted User wrote: »

Spraypaint + Stencil + Election Poster backwards.= Good Sign.
Very cheap and cheerful too.

I said in my original post that laminated signs weren't an option, neither were those election poster things because they break down with UV light. As well as that I'm ****ed if I'm going to spend a whole weekend laminating and spray painting signs for the useless shower in my club to be criticising them. I had already suggested buying a laminator 2 years ago and was turned down by one of the tight arses because it he said they wouldn't last. We haven't got one sign up in our club:rolleyes:

We have a serious cash problem in my club, we have too much of it and the older fellahs in the club are too tight to spend it. Every meeting they are trying to better each other with money saving ideas. This year one of them said we had plenty of birds and there was no need to release any.

Now its gotten to the stage we have a surplus of cash and I intend to spend every cent of it.

fiacha wrote: »

I saw these guys advertised on the NARGC website. Not sure what the club discount is.

(No personal interests in this business)

Thanks for that fiachra, they're exactly what I'ld be looking for but they're just too bloody expensive. Although I will be suggesting them at the next meeting, if only to frighten the ****e out of the more conservative members.

meathstevie

Get a couple of white sheets of plastic like the ones the walls in restaurant kitchens and butchershops etc are clad with. Cut to size and do the lettering. And with the rest of the dough buy and stock plenty of feeders to attract and keep birds on your ground.

homerhop

We haven't got one sign up in our club

Do the tight arses not realise that if the club ever goes to prosecute someone for poaching they will possibly loose the case because of this.
http://www.irishsigns.com/SafetySigns.html
We got signs done in tin with a few quid off since he is a local

deeksofdoom

homerhop wrote: »

Do the tight arses not realise that if the club ever goes to prosecute someone for poaching they will possibly loose the case because of this.
http://www.irishsigns.com/SafetySigns.html
We got signs done in tin with a few quid off since he is a local

Well I don't think we'ld ever go to the trouble of prosecuting someone, but there were 2 fellahs caught shooting in the sanctuary this year. But there was no sign up, so what can you say to them only to **** off and don't come back. I like the signs that fiachra suggested, might just get a lands preserved and a sanctuary one and use them as stencils and then make up the signs with ply board, it just might keep everyone happy.

J.R.

We bought ours from:

Finglas Screen Print,
Unit 2,
Little Jamestown Estate,
St. Margaret's Road,
Finglas North,
Co. Dublin.

Tel: 01 8641322
Fax: 01 8641433
e-mail: finglasscreenprint@eircom.net

He has an ad. in the Irish Shooter's Digest each month.

We have the signs 3 years now and they're still perfect - don't fade or disintegrate with weather.....couldn't fault them.

He was the cheapest then when we were pricing around......you'll have to buy fifty or more to get a good price.....price per sign drops rapidly the more you order.

They are manufactured on a type of hard plastic.....like building site signs.

J.R.

We bought the signs to erect around gun club land.

I also made stencil with Gun Club name on it....this was used to spray onto feeders, pen etc.

A stencil is easy to make if you've patience.

1. Go to Microsoft Word and set the orientation (page layout) to landscape (long ways) ...it's usually set at portrait (straight up)

Set margins to narrow so you'll be able to use all of the page

2. Set your font to STENCIL (if this is not on your computer download it....do a search for font STENCIL)

in Page layout set the font spacing to 0 before 0 after.....no space between letters above and below to fit in as much as possible

3. Write your message e.g. Craggy Island Gun Club
Lands Preserved

keep amount of words short ....the more you write the smaller the words will be on the sign to fit it all in.

4. Adjust the font, making it larger, until the writing fills the page. Usually the largest font is 72 points....too small for sign.

If you want to increase the font size hightlight it, press ctrl and ] and it will get bigger....ctrl and [ makes it smaller.

5. Print Off

6. Cut out wording with aa sciccors very carefully.

6. Get some hard plastic for your stencil.....I used a plastic cover off a bound document.

7. Sellotape your stencil to this and trace around the letters you cut out with a permanent marker.

8. Remove paper stencil to leave plastic sheet with stencilling written in permanent marker.

9. Cut this out with scapel....use a new blade


JOB DONE....buy a can of spray paint & off you go....can be used over & over again.

SEE EXAMPLE IN NEXT POST

J.R.

This is a sign in ordinary font




THis is a sign with STENCIL font....shows you how to cut it out with scapel so the letters don't fall out.

deeksofdoom

Hows that, had to get a free download for stencil.ttf from http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,2518-order,4/description.html. Anyways that might be acceptable to the tight arses.

pullandbang

deeksofdoom wrote: »

Lads,

I'm looking to source some signs for the club. Not that polyboard stuff, or laminated paper, but durable plastic like diebond, I want to put them up once and never have to do anythng with them ever again. I have been qoted €6-€7 for A4 sized land preserved signs, I was thinking of getting 100. Has anyone bought some recently or do they know of anyone supplying them,

Regards
Deeks

We got ours in Sign System, Navan

daithi55

we used a big sheet of galvanized tin about ten years ago to do ours and are still working
got the local engineering firm to cut it into sections as a favour
or ya could go to a fas centre and they will do it in five Min's on a guillotine
made a stencil and sprayed the lettering blue look fine
drill a hole in each corner of the sheet use wire to attach to the gates poles etc and it works out cheap
ya might even get the vat back of the tin if someone can justify using it

stevoman

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deeksofdoom

Well I got the signs for the club today from Mid Cork Metalworks limited and the have made a top notch job. Ordered them Tuesday and had them at home today, Thursday. They've made up stencils, hopefully the club will be plastered in signs by next season.