Vehicle Signs

Boat and vehicle signs are pretty much like any other: enamel works well, gold leaf even better (gold leaf is rare now, but time was it was seen everywhere).

A major advantage of hand-painted over vinyl on any vehicle (or on any other surface, for that matter) is that minor damage can be easily and invisibly repaired. Vinyl has to be redone.

Left and right: This is traditional truck lettering, the kind you don’t see much any more. I was reproducing a much older sign done on another of this company’s trucks by Dan Giddings, a retired sign painter in my area.

←Enamel on fiberglass powerboat. Top: bridge; bottom: stern.

Cut in oak with a router, varnished, painted, then screwed to bow of a 35-foot cutter→

←Gold leaf applied to a painted aluminum blank, screwed to a mahogany transom (from my Ostkust sloop). I replaced it with gold-leaf on sandblasted wood (click for a larger picture)→

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