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[V8Ian]

I just know it will be the 66 cents that will kill the job.

Epic Dragon will probably knock the 66 off if Saitch supplies the brush.

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[Saitch]

Will that brush be able to apply Pantone Puce on the 'tilly?

[V8Ian]

Of course, she's a highly talented craftswoman.

[4bee]

Epic Dragon will probably knock the 66 off if Saitch supplies the brush.

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Cripes, can you still buy a brush for .66 cents? It'd be pretty crap I reckon.

Even those I have seen for a few $ lose their bristles before you get home. And that is still in its original sealed packaging.

[4bee]

Will that brush be able to apply Pantone Puce on the 'tilly?

Needed to re-read that, at first glance I thought you said Willy. Thought. That is a bit odd, must be the coloured edition.

[Bigbjorn]

An old mate now long retired (80+) always told anyone who asked that he was a "Coach and Motor Painter" and was in the last class to go through TAFE on a six year apprenticeship, 12,000 hours. They learnt to spray paint, brush paint, colour match, sign write, tack varnish, pin stripe and so on. They did art works on vans like the Arnotts parrot, shadowed and blocked sign writing like one always saw on meat hanging wagons. He regarded "spray painters" as smash repairers that had learnt to paint a bit. A couple of decades ago he was doing his best to drink himself to death but got over this and has been dry for a long time now.

[4bee]

An old mate now long retired (80+) always told anyone who asked that he was a "Coach and Motor Painter" and was in the last class to go through TAFE on a six year apprenticeship, 12,000 hours. They learnt to spray paint, brush paint, colour match, sign write, tack varnish, pin stripe and so on. They did art works on vans like the Arnotts parrot, shadowed and blocked sign writing like one always saw on meat hanging wagons. He regarded "spray painters" as smash repairers that had learnt to paint a bit. A couple of decades ago he was doing his best to drink himself to death but got over this and has been dry for a long time now.

A couple of decades ago he was doing his best to drink himself to death but got over this and has been dry for a long time now.

Who is doing it for him now Brian?

When I left school I also wanted to be a Signwriter with an olde established co, Lykkes (where they had a bloke dressed in White Painter's clobber sitting on a plank & rope scaffold.) in fact people used to stop & have a very one sided conversation with him.

I started off doing vehicle number plates of all sorts but lost a bit of interest in that after a girl caught my eye, & so I began my climb to the top of becoming a Fridgie. Or maybe it was to the bottom? No matter. The rest is history.

Yes Brian they did all sorts of writing using their long knobby stick with the soft ball on the end.

Gold Leaf was amongst them.



Time moves on & I can't even remember her name now, but I do remember the SAFB Head Station was next door. but she was the first bit of lovely soft breast I had encountered. In fact hers were the first pair as I recall.


Ah Happy days.

[DiscoMick]

12,000 hours! That's a long apprenticeship.Doctors don't go that long.

[Bigbjorn]

12,000 hours! That's a long apprenticeship.Doctors don't go that long.

50 x 40 hour weeks in a year plus two weeks leave not counted X 6 years = 12,000. There were several 6 year apprenticeships in those days. All others were 5 years, 10,000 hours. Trades were dumbed down about 1960-61 with a reduction to 4 year apprenticeships.

[Bigbjorn]

Who is doing it for him now Brian?

When I left school I also wanted to be a Signwriter with an olde established co, Lykkes (where they had a bloke dressed in White Painter's clobber sitting on a plank & rope scaffold.) in fact people used to stop & have a very one sided conversation with him.

I started off doing vehicle number plates of all sorts but lost a bit of interest in that after a girl caught my eye, & so I began my climb to the top of becoming a Fridgie. Or maybe it was to the bottom? No matter. The rest is history.

Yes Brian they did all sorts of writing using their long knobby stick with the soft ball on the end.

Gold Leaf was amongst them.



Time moves on & I can't even remember her name now, but I do remember the SAFB Head Station was next door. but she was the first bit of lovely soft breast I had encountered. In fact hers were the first pair as I recall.


Ah Happy days.

Who is doing what for him? The painting or the drinking? The knobby stick is called a maul stick. He was a brilliant auto painter when not on the grog and did the fancy paint jobs on hot rods and custom cars. When on a bender he would drink anything alcoholic, perfume, after shave, etc. He had a mate who worked in the Police Laboratory and would supply him with large glass jars of pure analytical ethanol which got broken down to drinkability with water, peppermint cordial and green food dye added and called creme de menthe.