Re: Coach lines


"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:24:48 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
> <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>But I didn't
>>specify they did the dual coach lines (gold), so what are the options?
>
> Paint them yourself. It's easy enough, but you need to buy a real
> Buehler (sp?) coach lining wheel and do a little practice first. These
> aren't cheap, even when you spot one on eBay.
>
> Or else employ the alcoholic painter who used to sign write my dad's
> wagons in Liverpool (who'd be about 100 by now). Nose glowed like
> Rudolf and he never did anything complicated in the mornings. Morning
> shift would just be pottering about his workshop, maybe doing a bit of
> rubbing down old paintwork. He didn't need a sander, he just stood there
> with a cork block and sandpaper and let the shakes do the work.
>
> After a medicinal whisky at lunchtime he'd get the varying sizes of
> brushes out, all with incredibly long hair (not mere "bristles", he
> insisted - they were plucked from Vietnamese maidens and made specially
> for him in France). With a single stroke and a 1/8" brush he could lay a
> coachline the length of a van, not a wiggle in it.
>
> Nice chap, I never had the dexterity for the painting, but he taught me
> to lay gold leaf over lettering.
>

There was an old signwriter who did work for the service department at the
Humber many years ago who had similarly shakey hands, but they miraculously
became rock steady the moment he picked up a paint brush.

Your tale also reminds me of the West Country pub where the early morning
cider drinkers would undo their ties, leaving them to dangle and grap their
glass and one end of the tie in one hand. Pulling on the other end of the
tie would then elevate the glass to the region of the mouth without
spilling too much of the contents.

Ron Robinson


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