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For those who don't know I'm a professional screen printer by trade, and run my own screen printing business in Portland OR. I started working with Papa Ted back in 2009 recreating doors and windows when his supply ran out on some of his items. Recently I've been working with Paul who has published really great resource pages for Putz builders and restorers to use with all the windows that had been previously offered here on the forum. As of the last week or so it kind of lit a fire in me having new stuff available to want to get to the things that had never been done before. So I have been talking mainly with Tom, Paul, and Howard about a few windows that had never been made available to be purchase for replacement by Ted.
I also contacted Pete Oehmen who has been really great to talk to, and we are planning on working together to offer the new windows for sale on his website, so everybody can have access to them.

I started off creating a large version of Ted's part # 15. It is an 8 paned window with a curve at the top. We believe it was simply over looked on Ted's run of windows, but was a very common window found in many houses. I'm calling it 15L for now. (L is for Large) 

The next few things I'm going to offer are all the Blue Cello windows. They are fairly rare, so I'm guessing won't be in as high of demand, but maybe builders of new houses can use them too. They will be offered in Silver and Gold ink that is accurate to their history. Below are pictures of the blue and gold ink versions. I had to order a special silver ink and it is taking longer than expected to arrive so I'm hoping to do a run of those in the coming week or so.

Finally, the thing I'm most excited about is Fuzzy Windows! I did a test today with some flocking on some of the other prints I did and they are looking very promising!! I've been talking with Tom Hull about the different sizes of these windows and he has been really great in helping me get as accurate as possible. Right now I have 6 or 7 fuzzy window designs that I know of. These are in a league of their own and my art has to be perfect for them because there is no border to their frames. They need to fit perfectly in the window holes. I will have more on this soon, and if anybody has any pics of fuzzy windows and their dimensions it would be greatly appreciated if you could share them. I will try to recreate everyone known to exist. Below a pic of today's test flocking can be seen. Each of the three windows has a different mix of flocking material on them. I personally can't wait to finish this project because I have a few houses desperately in need of some new windows!!

I also included a couple pics of my screen and the process for anybody curious as to how they are made.
Thanks so much!
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Will have to let the "world" know about this tomorrow on Everything Croton :)


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Awesome! Thanks Maria! :)


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Great, Brian, let me know what I can do to help.


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Amazing work Brian - a true professional. I found the pictures of the screen process interesting. Looks like you squeegeed this by hand. Is it on acetate or cellophane? I believe this is the manner in which the originals were made. Tom


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Additionally you have provided the missing WINDOOR that was in so many houses. Those of Teds had only church windows which were really only originally used in churches. Tom


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Could someone post a picture of a house w/ the fuzzy windows.
I've seen references to them. But I guess I'm not 100% sure what they are.

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Thanks Paul, will do, also, I'm going to send you the graphic for the WINDOOR so you can add it to the resource page.

Tom, THANK YOU for helping me get this right! The material is from the Dick Blick link that Paul posted in the window tutorial and it works great. It is called clear lay made by Grafix.

http://www.dickblick.com/products/grafi ... 997#videos

I hand pulled these, the could be done on an automatic, but printing on material like this takes a special finesse I've found. I got a lot more control with angle and squeegee pressure by hand, it could definitely be done on an auto, but more setup time would be needed. I may try another screen mesh next time as well to get more coverage, but these turned out really good, I can't wait for everybody to see them up close.

Steve here is a pic of a church that I'm going to replace a couple of windows, one in front and one on the side. Also Tom just posted a whole box set of really nice Fuzzies a couple of days ago if you flip back through the forum.
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It will be cool to see the house after the repair.


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