How Much For A Signwritten Name

[TheSaintlyOne]

Hi everyone. 

 

How much in a ball park figure kind of way is it to get a name and simple picture of a playing card painted on the side of a narrowboat in London. 

 

I want a white Ace playing card with a stick figure and the name "The Ace Of Knaves" below it in an arc. 

 

Boat Top is green painted Marine Ply and will be the background to the whole design if that makes sense

 

Can you guess what it is yet ???

[mrsmelly]

You can do it very quick online with a set of vinyl letters. Do your own design on line on many websites.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Moor it in the wrong part of town and a local scallywag will tag it with a spray can for free. You can then change the name with CaRT to whatever they've sprayed on the side.

 

Jen?

[cuthound]

My boat is currently being repainted. I have been quoted £500 for the signwiting on the sides, plus extra £150 for 3 colour candy striping on the swan neck, £150  for a panel of diamonds on the roof and £75 for a heart on the slide.

Edited November 5, 2019 by cuthound
Clarification

[Ex Brummie]

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Edited November 5, 2019 by Ex Brummie
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[restlessnomad]

this must be the rudest thing I posted here, but why do canal boats have such gaudy colours. I can understand historic boats need to maintain closer to how it was but for the rest its just ugly.

What up with multi color and 1960s look.

(hope I dont get banned for this )

[Steve_C]

11 minutes ago, restlessnomad said:

this must be the rudest thing I posted here, but why do canal boats have such gaudy colours. I can understand historic boats need to maintain closer to how it was but for the rest its just ugly.

What up with multi color and 1960s look.

(hope I dont get banned for this )

If you think thats the rudest thing posted on here you aint been around long enough.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

I’ll come and do it. 

I guarantee it’ll be unique and there’ll be nowt like it anywhere else on the cut. 

 

Will cost mind. London innit. 

 

 

[restlessnomad]

3 minutes ago, Steve_C said:

If you think thats the rudest thing posted on here you aint been around long enough.

its like calling somebody's child ugly, I thought.

[The Dreamer]

32 minutes ago, restlessnomad said:

but why do canal boats have such gaudy colours

Because men, more often than not, seem to be the custodians of the colour scheme, despite most of us being aesthetically challenged, and one in ten of us being colour deficient! 

[Guest]

41 minutes ago, restlessnomad said:

this must be the rudest thing I posted here, but why do canal boats have such gaudy colours. I can understand historic boats need to maintain closer to how it was but for the rest its just ugly.

What up with multi color and 1960s look.

(hope I dont get banned for this )

Boat paint only comes in four colours. Gaudy Blue, Gaudy Red, Gaudy Yellow and Gaudy Green. That's why all narrowboats are painted in one of those four colours. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.

 

 

See?

[Jen-in-Wellies]

8 minutes ago, NB Caelmiri said:

Boat paint only comes in four colours. Gaudy Blue, Gaudy Red, Gaudy Yellow and Gaudy Green. That's why all narrowboats are painted in one of those four colours. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.

 

 

See?

There is the ever popular primer grey, with rust polka dots.

[dave moore]

All right. I’ll not comment on the original post, to my mind the quotes to Cuthound are a tad on the high side, though I’m not bidding for the work. Nothing gaudy about canal boat colours, they were painted originally in the monochromatic colours available in the last century and before. They have a rightness to this old fart traditionalist signwriter that can never be surpassed by pastel hues. Nuff said for now.

[David Mack]

2 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

There is the ever popular primer grey, with rust polka dots.

And its cousin, red oxide primer, with rust polka dots and and green lichen highlights.

[cuthound]

13 minutes ago, David Mack said:

And its cousin, red oxide primer, with rust polka dots and and green lichen highlights.

 

But you can barely see the rust polka dots against red oxide. ?

[dave moore]

Here is Resolute on the day we sold her, decked out in appropriate gaudy colours.

[The Dreamer]

45 minutes ago, NB Caelmiri said:

Boat paint only comes in four colours.

According to the original design speck of our boat, the colours she displays are Dusty Grey, Fern Green and Dark Cherry.  I am fairly sure that two, of those three, are the names of former girlfriends!

[adam1uk]

3 hours ago, cuthound said:

My boat is currently being repainted. I have been quoted £500 for the signwiting on the sides, plus extra £150 for 3 colour candy striping on the swan neck, £150  for a panel of diamonds on the roof and £75 for a heart on the slide.

That sounds high to me.  Admittedly it was five or six years ago, but we paid £500 for the name and location on both sides plus number in a panel; diamonds on the bow flashes, cratch board and roof; scroll on each side; CRT number on both sides.

[cuthound]

46 minutes ago, adam1uk said:

That sounds high to me.  Admittedly it was five or six years ago, but we paid £500 for the name and location on both sides plus number in a panel; diamonds on the bow flashes, cratch board and roof; scroll on each side; CRT number on both sides.

 

Yes my £500 includes CRT numbers, boat name & home port, boat number, scrolls and top bend decoration.

 

It is only the swans neck, side and 6 foot x 18" diamond panel on roof that is extra.

 

Asked 5 boatyard for quotes and all were about the same for sign writing, but varied between £130 & £200 per foot for the repaint.

[Lysander]

Last year we paid £235 for boat name, scroll and home port, CRT numbers and logo, and bow flashes. This was not London though.

[matty40s]

14 hours ago, restlessnomad said:

this must be the rudest thing I posted here, but why do canal boats have such gaudy colours. I can understand historic boats need to maintain closer to how it was but for the rest its just ugly.

What up with multi color and 1960s look.

(hope I dont get banned for this )

He was going too fast to get any nearer .

[NB Tranquillity 1]

On 05/11/2019 at 19:45, dave moore said:

Here is Resolute on the day we sold her, decked out in appropriate gaudy colours.

That's not gaudy....that's beautiful. 

[alan_fincher]

On 05/11/2019 at 18:29, restlessnomad said:

this must be the rudest thing I posted here, but why do canal boats have such gaudy colours. I can understand historic boats need to maintain closer to how it was but for the rest its just ugly.

What up with multi color and 1960s look.

(hope I dont get banned for this )

This was aiming more at a late 1950s look...

It doesn't necessarily have to be a patchwork of many different colours!

Gaudy enough for you?

[NB Tranquillity 1]

From a signwriter's point of view it's a thing of beauty....

[David Mack]

23 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

This was aiming more at a late 1950s look...

It doesn't necessarily have to be a patchwork of many different colours!

Gaudy enough for you?

 

Is this not a late 1950s look?