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   Pandora
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   Joined: 10/01/07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3  | 
    Topic: great door ideaPosted: 3/02/10 at 6:42am  | 
 
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   We reuse  two wagons with flat birch doors for every show.  A local graphics company makes us reusable, sticky-backed panels the size of the door in any style we need - rustic for Fiddler, 6 panel for drawing room, etc. for $25 a panel.  From the front row, you can't tell that the doors are really flat.  Shipping would be minimal as they come in tubes. For $100, it looks as though we've got new doors every time.
    
   
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   pdavis69
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   Joined: 3/26/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 437  | 
    Posted: 3/02/10 at 2:08pm | 
 
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   OK I'll bite.  What's the graphics company?
    
   
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   JoeMc
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   Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832  | 
    Posted: 3/02/10 at 10:34pm | 
 
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   Good tip Pandora! 
   
  Our props bloke, at my old theatre. Has a mate in the printing game & gets graphic printing done on vynil. Producing thinks like book shelves & grog bottle from behind a bar. The only limit is in the width of the vynil & length is not a great problem. It has only cost the odd bottle of whisky or a few slabs of beer tinnies & on occasions a couple of cartons. Dedpending upon the value of work done in our local currency of the local beer economy. All the prop bod does is supply a photo pic or trani of the set piece required. But the sticky back is a good clue, as the vynil set pieces tend to evaporate after the show?  | 
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   Pandora
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   Joined: 10/01/07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3  | 
    Posted: 4/25/10 at 8:55pm | 
 
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   Sorry I didnt see your reply sooner!  The graphics company we used is pdfsolutions.com, and their website is www.millstreetgroup.com.  We've used them twice now for two different door looks, and I couldn't be more pleased.  My contact there is Jon.  Thanks!  
    
   
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