18 November 2013
19 September 2013
Warning About Buying LED signs from China
As we are the lowest price for full color, L.E.D. signs, billboards, tickers and more. Back in November of 2012, we checked out a company over in Shenzhen called ERALED Optoelectronics about a glass, P20 LED sign for a window. Was a great deal, saw nothing bad on them digging around on the internet and gave it try so we had something different to offer customers.
In December, we received the sign, the crate looked good and once we open, we realized the plexiglass had cracks on it from shipping or packaging, we were not sure but no big deal. As I got the sign out and wired up, nothing would work. We fought with it, called and emailed ERALED and their tech support could not figure it out and I had to talk to the one supplier of theirs who does the software.
After a number of months, we worked on this, worked late into the night with them and having outside companies attempt to fix it and NOTHING. With many Skype calls, messages, emails and such, got in touch with a Vice President of the company who told me to buy more modules. We said they should back up their products like every other corporation does over there but nothing. Over time we were told to ship the modules back, all 16 of them and they would send brand new ones once the damaged ones were received. Once we got an agreement on this, I packaged them up and sent them over to their place in Shenzhen. Weeks went by and we kept emailing them asking where are our modules were then finally were told that they had trouble fixing them, a couple got damaged but were able to fix half and we would get the other ones brand new ready to go.
Last week, we received them, the modules were packaged nicely and once I started opening the second package inside, I noticed all of the modules were damaged severely and were not usable in any way at all. Now we are in a loss of over $10,000.00 dollars and no one at ERALED will get back to me as the shipping company said they have to put in a claim. They will not answer their emails, skype calls or skype messages at all but they keep emailing us about new products which is highly irritating.
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from Shenzhen ERALED Optoelectronics CO in Shenzhen China. We took a change and was not worth it at all. Their site is www.eraled.biz so watch out and to this point now we are still trying to get resolution and wanted to share the world about this situation to help someone considering anything they offer, not to waste your money with them.
We do full color, graphics, video LED advertising signs, billboards, tickers and custom creations from small walkway signs to giant building size screens for indoor or outdoor. Contact us for a quote as we can make any size, anyway you want.
Jason
All Classics Ltd
www.led-signs.co
www.bigbronze.com
www.allclassics.com
In December, we received the sign, the crate looked good and once we open, we realized the plexiglass had cracks on it from shipping or packaging, we were not sure but no big deal. As I got the sign out and wired up, nothing would work. We fought with it, called and emailed ERALED and their tech support could not figure it out and I had to talk to the one supplier of theirs who does the software.
After a number of months, we worked on this, worked late into the night with them and having outside companies attempt to fix it and NOTHING. With many Skype calls, messages, emails and such, got in touch with a Vice President of the company who told me to buy more modules. We said they should back up their products like every other corporation does over there but nothing. Over time we were told to ship the modules back, all 16 of them and they would send brand new ones once the damaged ones were received. Once we got an agreement on this, I packaged them up and sent them over to their place in Shenzhen. Weeks went by and we kept emailing them asking where are our modules were then finally were told that they had trouble fixing them, a couple got damaged but were able to fix half and we would get the other ones brand new ready to go.
Last week, we received them, the modules were packaged nicely and once I started opening the second package inside, I noticed all of the modules were damaged severely and were not usable in any way at all. Now we are in a loss of over $10,000.00 dollars and no one at ERALED will get back to me as the shipping company said they have to put in a claim. They will not answer their emails, skype calls or skype messages at all but they keep emailing us about new products which is highly irritating.
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from Shenzhen ERALED Optoelectronics CO in Shenzhen China. We took a change and was not worth it at all. Their site is www.eraled.biz so watch out and to this point now we are still trying to get resolution and wanted to share the world about this situation to help someone considering anything they offer, not to waste your money with them.
We do full color, graphics, video LED advertising signs, billboards, tickers and custom creations from small walkway signs to giant building size screens for indoor or outdoor. Contact us for a quote as we can make any size, anyway you want.
Jason
All Classics Ltd
www.led-signs.co
www.bigbronze.com
www.allclassics.com
28 August 2013
AMERICAN DREAM, GIANT BRONZE STATUE AMERICAN INDIAN NATIVE
SAND
SPRINGS, Okla.—If Shan Gray ever gets his way, Lady Liberty will
someday be looking up, figuratively, to an even loftier statue here in
the Osage Hills outside of Tulsa.
Mr. Gray, a 57-year-old sculptor of
Osage tribal heritage, is on a quixotic quest to erect a 217-foot-high
bronze rendering of a Native American warrior with an eagle perched on
his arm.
Titled "The American," the colossal work would be considerably larger than the Statue of Liberty, the nation's tallest statue, which is about 151 feet from torch to toes, not counting her pedestal.
Some Oklahomans are skeptical that Mr. Gray has the financial backing to bring his outsize vision to life. Others worry that his statue will tumble over in a tornado if he does. Mr. Gray remains resolute, convinced he can make the privately funded artwork a reality.
"The winds blowing through his hair are the winds of adversity, and he is facing east because the sun is coming up to mark a new day, a new beginning," he says, explaining the meaning behind his generic Indian warrior, deliberately designed to represent no tribe.
In case
the symbolism is too subtle, Mr. Gray aims to awe with sheer scale. The
outer skin of "The American" would be composed of 3,600 bronze panels
weighing in total more than 350,000 pounds. The eagle alone would have a
wingspan of 103 feet.
Visitors would be able to enter at the base, board an elevator and ascend the sculpture. Herds of live buffalo would surround it.
Estimated cost: $34 million for the monument, $80 million for the full project, which would also include an amphitheater and educational center.
After years of scouring for sites and scrounging up financing, the Oklahoman sculptor has found a potential partner in Sand Springs, a city of around 19,000 people about 8 miles west of Tulsa. The town voted in June to study the cost of building infrastructure including roads to the monument.
The Sand Springs Home, an orphanage started
by a philanthropic oil man here a century ago, is offering to donate 40
acres of hilly woodlands for the base of the statue, with an option for
Mr. Gray and his investors to buy surrounding land, a trustee confirms.
Sand Springs Mayor Mike Burdge admits his initial reaction was, "How far would that thing fly in a 100-mph wind?" Backers promise it could handle a 200-mph tornado.
But around Tulsa, already home to the Golden Driller, a 76-foot statue of an oil worker, and to 60-foot praying hands outside of Oral Roberts University, he has come to see that "The American" may make a certain amount of sense.
"Some people out there would leave the road to go see the world's largest ball of twine, and that is not something I'd do," he says. "But we have to start working together to get these big projects built if we want Oklahoma to be a destination point."
Many Oklahomans remain dubious. Mr. Gray's statue proposal is well traveled at this point: He presented it to Oklahoma City early last decade, then Tulsa, but says he never found the right mixture of public support and available land before settling on Sand Springs.
"Of course it was tremendously expensive—they never did get anywhere in Oklahoma City," says J. Blake Wade, the head of a state authority building an unrelated but also high-price project, the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. The ambitious museum, expected to cost $170 million, is under way with state and private financing but remains unfinished as backers seek $40 million from the state to help complete it.
Naysayers second-guess an economic consultant's projection that 1.5 million people per year would visit "The American"—or nearly 40% of Oklahoma's entire population.
Others are simply puzzled. "What is the point of it, are you trying to attract people to a casino?" says Geoffrey Standing Bear, a legislator in the Osage Nation, which ultimately decided not to contribute $2.5 million to the project. "I thought it was a waste of our money."
Mr. Gray says that if he wanted his statue to adorn a casino it would have been built by now. He says he thinks the statue would have special appeal in Oklahoma, which is home to dozens of Native American nations after many were relocated there in the 1800s by the government.
The sculptor, who estimates he has plunked $300,000 of his savings into the project, admits to fundraising setbacks after the recession.
But he remains optimistic, citing the struggles of Gutzon Borglum, who carved Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. It is now visited by more than two million people a year, according to the National Park Service.
Best known for public statues of famous Oklahomans, such as an 18-foot bronze of Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller in Edmond, outside of Oklahoma City, Mr. Gray says he has always wanted to go big.
http://www.allclassics.com/american-indians-statues/giant-indian-statue
When his initial rendering of "The American"—an unsuccessful entry in a contest to top the state capitol dome—proved popular with readers in a newspaper poll, Mr. Gray says, his friend Robert Spring told him, "This is the one."
Mr. Spring, the owner of an oil-exploration firm, has since become an investor in the project, though he declines to say how much he has committed.
"It's a dream he had, a big dream, and anytime you can help with something like that, it becomes your dream too," Mr. Spring says. "It would be very good for Oklahoma."
So Mr. Gray keeps chipping away. He hopes to break ground on his masterwork soon, he explains from his home on a recent afternoon, as an 80-pound miniature of "The American" rests on his kitchen table.
He enters his garage, where he and an assistant are fashioning a new clay-covered model of the sculpture, with a slightly tweaked torso, better to hide the elevator.
"I'm working on this really big thing here," he explains, pointing out some tiny human figures at the statue's feet that illustrate its scale. "No one's going to get rich off this. But it's going to have legs."
FOR SOME OTHER AMERICAN NATIVE BRONZE STATUES see
http://bigbronze.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=INDIAN&product_id=165
http://bigbronze.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=INDIAN&product_id=165
http://bigbronze.com/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=INDIAN&page=4
Miguel Bustillo/The Wall Street Journal
Shan Gray, right, with assistant Hunter Cobb, works on a clay-covered rendering of 'The American.'
Titled "The American," the colossal work would be considerably larger than the Statue of Liberty, the nation's tallest statue, which is about 151 feet from torch to toes, not counting her pedestal.
Some Oklahomans are skeptical that Mr. Gray has the financial backing to bring his outsize vision to life. Others worry that his statue will tumble over in a tornado if he does. Mr. Gray remains resolute, convinced he can make the privately funded artwork a reality.
"The winds blowing through his hair are the winds of adversity, and he is facing east because the sun is coming up to mark a new day, a new beginning," he says, explaining the meaning behind his generic Indian warrior, deliberately designed to represent no tribe.
Model of 'The American'
Visitors would be able to enter at the base, board an elevator and ascend the sculpture. Herds of live buffalo would surround it.
Estimated cost: $34 million for the monument, $80 million for the full project, which would also include an amphitheater and educational center.
After years of scouring for sites and scrounging up financing, the Oklahoman sculptor has found a potential partner in Sand Springs, a city of around 19,000 people about 8 miles west of Tulsa. The town voted in June to study the cost of building infrastructure including roads to the monument.
Ten Tall Statues
See the five tallest statues in the U.S. and the five tallest statues in the world, based on the height of the statues without their pedestals, if they have one.
Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal
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The Statue of Liberty is the nation's tallest statue, at about 151 feet from torch to toes, not counting her pedestal.
Sand Springs Mayor Mike Burdge admits his initial reaction was, "How far would that thing fly in a 100-mph wind?" Backers promise it could handle a 200-mph tornado.
But around Tulsa, already home to the Golden Driller, a 76-foot statue of an oil worker, and to 60-foot praying hands outside of Oral Roberts University, he has come to see that "The American" may make a certain amount of sense.
"Some people out there would leave the road to go see the world's largest ball of twine, and that is not something I'd do," he says. "But we have to start working together to get these big projects built if we want Oklahoma to be a destination point."
Many Oklahomans remain dubious. Mr. Gray's statue proposal is well traveled at this point: He presented it to Oklahoma City early last decade, then Tulsa, but says he never found the right mixture of public support and available land before settling on Sand Springs.
"Of course it was tremendously expensive—they never did get anywhere in Oklahoma City," says J. Blake Wade, the head of a state authority building an unrelated but also high-price project, the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. The ambitious museum, expected to cost $170 million, is under way with state and private financing but remains unfinished as backers seek $40 million from the state to help complete it.
Naysayers second-guess an economic consultant's projection that 1.5 million people per year would visit "The American"—or nearly 40% of Oklahoma's entire population.
Others are simply puzzled. "What is the point of it, are you trying to attract people to a casino?" says Geoffrey Standing Bear, a legislator in the Osage Nation, which ultimately decided not to contribute $2.5 million to the project. "I thought it was a waste of our money."
Mr. Gray says that if he wanted his statue to adorn a casino it would have been built by now. He says he thinks the statue would have special appeal in Oklahoma, which is home to dozens of Native American nations after many were relocated there in the 1800s by the government.
The sculptor, who estimates he has plunked $300,000 of his savings into the project, admits to fundraising setbacks after the recession.
But he remains optimistic, citing the struggles of Gutzon Borglum, who carved Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. It is now visited by more than two million people a year, according to the National Park Service.
Best known for public statues of famous Oklahomans, such as an 18-foot bronze of Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller in Edmond, outside of Oklahoma City, Mr. Gray says he has always wanted to go big.
http://www.allclassics.com/american-indians-statues/giant-indian-statue
When his initial rendering of "The American"—an unsuccessful entry in a contest to top the state capitol dome—proved popular with readers in a newspaper poll, Mr. Gray says, his friend Robert Spring told him, "This is the one."
Mr. Spring, the owner of an oil-exploration firm, has since become an investor in the project, though he declines to say how much he has committed.
"It's a dream he had, a big dream, and anytime you can help with something like that, it becomes your dream too," Mr. Spring says. "It would be very good for Oklahoma."
So Mr. Gray keeps chipping away. He hopes to break ground on his masterwork soon, he explains from his home on a recent afternoon, as an 80-pound miniature of "The American" rests on his kitchen table.
He enters his garage, where he and an assistant are fashioning a new clay-covered model of the sculpture, with a slightly tweaked torso, better to hide the elevator.
"I'm working on this really big thing here," he explains, pointing out some tiny human figures at the statue's feet that illustrate its scale. "No one's going to get rich off this. But it's going to have legs."
FOR SOME OTHER AMERICAN NATIVE BRONZE STATUES see
http://bigbronze.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=INDIAN&product_id=165
http://bigbronze.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=INDIAN&product_id=165
http://bigbronze.com/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=INDIAN&page=4
23 August 2013
Tasmanian Tiger's New Home at International Crytozoology Museum
Tasmanian Tiger by Bigbronze.com
Yesterday morning, August 22nd 2013, we met Mr. Loren Coleman from the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland Maine. Darren and I spoke to him a few times as he wanted our famous, Tasmanian Tiger in Bronze for his world famous, one of a kind museum for everyone to enjoy.
The International Crytozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, includes exhibits about cryptids (beyond Bigfoot and Nessie). They also feature displays about the finds of "living fossils" and other classic animals of discovery which are the successful stories of Cryptozoology. One of their most famous pieces are of course is Coelacanth, which is featured on the museum's logo as Loren has a life-size model at the museum.
From hair samples from a the Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Yowie and Orange Pendek to amazing works of art like our Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), his museum has something for everyone. All of us are fascinated by Cryptozoology in one way or another. If you are planning a trip to the Portland, Maine area, make sure to stop by and check out this amazing place.
Loren is a great guy who is very knowledgeable and known around the world for Crytozoology. He has written several books and travels around the globe looking for new finds, artifacts and information all of the time. If you travel to the museum and see him there, go say hello and if you have any questions, he is always more than happy to answer them.
At Bigbronze.com, our capacity to produce traditional and custom pieces in bronze, bronze allows us to offer our customers the right design in the right material at the best possible price. We offer excellent prices on quantity production runs, and custom castings. We can produce quantity runs of figures based on your sample or create custom pieces to suit your needs.
Located in Newark, Delaware, (right off I-95), we are here 9-3 Eastern time. If you would like to visit, our warehouse showroom is at 66 Albe Drive, Newark, DE 19702. Looking for anything in particular, email us by clicking here. You may also call us at (302) 738-2190.
From hair samples from a the Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Yowie and Orange Pendek to amazing works of art like our Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), his museum has something for everyone. All of us are fascinated by Cryptozoology in one way or another. If you are planning a trip to the Portland, Maine area, make sure to stop by and check out this amazing place.
Loren is a great guy who is very knowledgeable and known around the world for Crytozoology. He has written several books and travels around the globe looking for new finds, artifacts and information all of the time. If you travel to the museum and see him there, go say hello and if you have any questions, he is always more than happy to answer them.
At Bigbronze.com, our capacity to produce traditional and custom pieces in bronze, bronze allows us to offer our customers the right design in the right material at the best possible price. We offer excellent prices on quantity production runs, and custom castings. We can produce quantity runs of figures based on your sample or create custom pieces to suit your needs.
Located in Newark, Delaware, (right off I-95), we are here 9-3 Eastern time. If you would like to visit, our warehouse showroom is at 66 Albe Drive, Newark, DE 19702. Looking for anything in particular, email us by clicking here. You may also call us at (302) 738-2190.
21 May 2013
School mascot of monumental Bronze tiger for Towson university
This is the finished mascot statue being presented on campus.
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Here are some photos of the development process. We make a small wax image for your review. Once you are satisfied then we make a life size wax image. This can also be adjusted to your liking. This final wax will be used to make a ceramic mould. What you see is what you get. No artist spin surprises.
Then the wax is melted out of the ceramic shell and this is where the "Lost Wax" name come from. Hot molten bronze will then be poured in to the casting to make the bronze sculpture.
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stop by to see our statues, sculpture and school mascots at www.bigbronze.com or www,allclassics.com
thanks for stopping in
Fun with statues and sculpture
04 February 2013
Statue of Liberty closes for renovation. To reopen at 125th aniversary
T celebrate www.bigbronze.com and www.allclassics.com will make a limited edition Statue of Liberty bust in bronze sculpture.
We also can make a replica any size you like in bronze metal. Many believe the original statue to be made of bronze and even school texts mention this. Truth is the Statue of Liberty is made of copper sheet over a steel frame and was deigned by same maker as Eiffel tower.
Statue of Liberty to Close for Yearlong Repairs
Published August 11, 2011
Associated Press
New York – The Statue of Liberty will close for a year at the end of October as it undergoes a $27.25 million renovation that will make the interior safer and more accessible, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday.
The renovations, however, are limited to the monument, and Liberty Island will remain open and the statue itself will be mostly unobstructed from view, officials said in a statement.
Tegan Firth, a spokeswoman for Statue Cruises, which on an average Saturday during the summer ferries about 18,000 people to Liberty Island, said the renovation won't have a significant impact on visitation .
"The entire experience of visiting these national landmarks of the United States remains absolutely the same," she said.
The National Parks Service, which manages the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, said it will close the monument on Oct. 28, after the 125th anniversary of its dedication.
It will be closed the following day, and workers from Joseph Construction Corp. of Pine Brook, N.J., will install "code-complaint" stairways and upgrade electrical and fire suppression systems, elevators and bathrooms.
The National Parks Service told The Associated Press in August 2010 that it would close the statue's crown to upgrade the stairwells and improve safety at Lady Liberty.
One reason, the service said at the time, was that the newest fire codes mandate escape routes that would allow the statue to be evacuated within two hours, but the current staircases on either side of the pedestal do not meet the standards.
The statue was closed after the Sept. 11 terror attacks for security precautions, but the base reopened in 2004 after a $20 million security upgrade. The observation deck at the top of the crown was reopened on July 4, 2009.
The National Parks Service controls the number of visitors to the crown, saying about 240 people visit each day. About 3.5 million people visit the monument every year.
The statue was built in the 1880s, and was a gift from France.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/11/statue-liberty-to-close-for-yearlong-repairs/#ixzz2JxDZR5L1
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