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Carlisle - ideas for NATO tent's merchandise / registration table – NATO logo table s
FoDo Offline
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Don't know what happened to this thead's title, however...
I seem to recall some previous discussion here about getting something NATO logo for a registration table or such for a past Carlisle. I was contemplating putting pictures of my cars and some embroidered logos on a jacket. Then that got me thinking about trade show type promotional logo table covers, chair covers, curtains and the like and what could be done as NATO advertising and tent décor for the Carlisle tent. (Don't mind me. I always have marketing/promotion/sales schemes in my brain, LOL.) Looking at past Carlisle pics, I see you have the NATO and some other banners to hang on the tent.

This is all still rough first pass stage, but assuming you don't have one already, one idea I have is a fitted table skirt for the merchandise / registration table, with graphics and lettering that echo the banner's NATO letters / bird graphic / 2 Turbo Coupe cars on the front. (Maybe a similar one for the picture board table, too, if the picture board is going to sit on a second table. Unless I get totally fed up doing the first skirt, LOL.)

I'm thinking fitted table skirt like the blue “Your Logo” one here (see http://affiliateddisplay.com/skirts.html), except flat front, no gathers, no pleats, just all advertising space. Run a chain through a casing around the bottom hem of skirt for wight, maybe also use a small tent stake under the table at each corner, use cords underneath to tie the top down to table legs so it doesn't do the Marilyn Monroe skirt thing if wind tries to lift it. Leave part of the back side open (no skirt) so you can reach under the table or sit behind it.

$260+ dollars for a logo table skirt is ridiculous. I can sew. NATO letters and the bird can be fabric appliques stitched on. The two TC cars can be laser or ink jet printed on 8.5 x 11 fabric and stitched on, I think, but I'll have to check how much those would fade when washed and/or what to spray on to permanently seal the ink/toner in the fabric.

Table skirt could be single color, or two-tone with or without a third color as a piping welt running around the seam where the skirt is stitched to the top or a band of color around the bottom hem. Could use either 60" wide polyester gabardine (probably better due to weight, it's stain & water resistant if sprayed with Scotchguard, washable, resists wrinkles), or nylon flag fabric. Both of those have some tendency to snag but, hey, stuff happens. Both of those fabric types can be had for $4 to $7 per yard, and I'm going to guess at 9 yds. max per table (assuming an 8' x 30" table with 28" drop) plus $10 to $20 for the printer fabric to do the cars, and a few more dollars for thread, cords, and cheap chain, so mostly what's involved is time and nowhere near $260 for a home-made multicolor home-table skirt with graphics. $75 to $100 tops would get something fancy, reasonably durable, that looks professionally done.

Second idea I have, assuming you don't think they'd just be nuisance is table top covers for the other tables. Long table skirts get in the way of people sitting at the tables, so other tables in the tent could just get covers for the table top. Again, it's just 2.75 yard max of cheap fabric, cut slightly oversized with a drawstring around the bottom and some strings to tie it down to table legs. Kind of like a glorified ironing board cover. Color match to the mdse./reg./ display table. Either leave plain, or decorate with NATO appliqued on and/or the bird graphic or the two cars as the laser printed fabric stitched on.

With any luck Carlisle won't stick us with some ugly GREEN and white tent! Anyone know who we bribe or threaten so we get blue, white, or beige? Yeah, I know...petty...but there's just no green in those Ford or NATO logos. ;-)

If you all don't think table skirt is totally whacko and over the top, let me know NATO's color scheme (black, red, white, and Ford blue??) and the most probable dimensions and height as well as the number of tables you anticipate using and I'll do the math. To actually make the skirt(s), I'd either need to have the actual table(s) or the make and model so I can find it a local store, or exact dimensions, height from table top to ground, and a tracing of the curve at the corner so I can get the top shaped right. I'd recommend using blue or black for the top and skirt and then use the red, blue, or white or whatever for the letters and graphics. White is a bad idea except as an accent because it's too difficult to keep clean and may get permanent mud stains, etc.

I'd also need electronic files for NATO font, the bird, and the 2 cars.

I'd most likely be willing do one fancy table skirt and the table covers as a donation unless my first-pass math is 'way off and total materials cost would run more than $130 to $175. But I don't think they would, even doing 2 decorated table skirts.

Third possibility is a few folding chair covers could also be sewn or purchased, but there's a lot more work involved in cutting, fitting and sewing chair covers. I'm NOT doing those for free. :-D

Amy
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Qwertys Offline
Senior Member
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I can get a hold of an embroidering machine. I can make patches, lettering, logo's, ect. custom logo's will be harder because we don't have the software to make em, but lettering is easy and small effects.
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TeamEntity Offline
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if you want to attract attention and really put on a show.. get yourself a clean or whatever front bumper and possible hood or a tc.. with lights of course.. if you have power than you can keep a charger on trickle and have the lights shining away day and night.. would look really slick and i'm sure there are some peeps here that wouldn't mind giving you some parts for trade of something in return.. Or this is something that you can work for next year.. again. no fenders.. just front bumper lights, and maybe hood, or just front bumper with the logo in the license plate and you can even put it underneath your table or have vinyl lettering of your site on the bumper or just the license plate.. peace. Ronnie.
Honest and sincere.. NO B.S. From me.
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FoDo Offline
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TeamEntity,
Sorry, but I don't do the car show circuit and that's just too much gear to store or haul around. I'm just the driver and the checkbook. I can cook and clean, too, LOL.
Think I'll go pitch my ideas to the Packard club now, ha. ;-)
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servingGod Offline
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#5
I am always up for making us look good. My mom just got an $8k embroidery machine for Christmas with digitizing software. So technically I should be able to make anything embroidered we need. I believe the largest hoop size is 7"x12", would have to check on that but I am pretty sure that is right. If you got an idea let me know and I will see if I can digitize it. If so I could make it in any size up to 7"x12".

James

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88 TC 5-speed maroon, all options, plus t3/t4 hybrid, 255 pump, RR, Centerforce DF with weight fingers, MSD tfi coil.
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Pete D Offline
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Amy, I couldn't get the link to work. Can I call you about this sometime in the next couple days?
Pete Dunham


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servingGod Offline
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#7
Here Pete try this one: http://affiliateddisplay.com/skirts.html
88 TC 5-speed maroon, all options, plus t3/t4 hybrid, 255 pump, RR, Centerforce DF with weight fingers, MSD tfi coil.
88 TC 5-speed Black, all options.
88 Thunderbird LX 5.0 All options except Leather.
87TC Parts car five speed all options.
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Pete D Offline
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#8
James, thanks, I see why the original didn't work.

Amy, I forgot to mention: I knoe that Carlisle uses and outside company for the tents. I'm not sure in regards to table and chairs. I think we could call Carlise and find out. I imagine we might be able to request tent with blue or black trim as opposed to green. Can't guarentee it will happen. I'll ask Gary S to make some inquires I would also think we could get the table dimensions. Between Nate, Gary, myself and maybe somebody else we might be able to come up with various logo files, I know we paid a pretty penny to have the embroidery file for the hats and polo shirts digitized
( I don't want to hear the flames and the "gee, if I had only known" [Image: biggrin.gif]) I would think that I should be able to get a copy of that if need be.

I'n not going to pretend to understand everything you said about table skirts. A needle in my hand is a lethal weapon and I'm the one in danger [Image: biggrin.gif]. Let me make the following comments. We do need to be able to seat people on the backside of the tables so we can't have material hanging down very far on that side. We butt the tables end to end or into "U" shape so I can't see doing too much on the ends of the table(s). We only need to worry about the side(s) facing outward.
Pete Dunham


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FoDo Offline
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Sounds like the start of a plan. Not something usually seen at car shows, I know. This idea is a spinoff of a table skirt with Nisson on it and the whole custom-logo horse show stall curtain / directors chairs / tack trunks, etc., all that display that the big stables set up at shows.

Not owning the tables makes fitting slightly more complicated. Since the chairs also aren't NATO's, I say drop them from the plan. The tables in the '04 pics look at least 8'. I'll check what Home Depot / Lowes sell. It would be cool if their folding tables are the same size as the Carlisle tables. That allow setting up one NATO table at smaller / other shows.

There are white and red/white tents in the background in the '04 pics. Red works, there are red Turbo Coupe letters on TC doors.

After I posted I looked at the '04 Carlisle pics again for the U-shape. Pick a color scheme. I could do 2 covers as ironing board type and 2 with just a front skirt only. That will reduce the fabric cost so that is a win/win. Since the skirts aren't wrapping around the corners, I don't need the exact shape of the table edge. I do need length, width, and drop. 28" is a standard table height so 27" should clear the ground. Thickness of the table top would also be good.

I don't have embroidery capability so that is why I was going for appliques instead. Looks like 2 other members might be able to embroider logos. If so, I can make the covers and ship them to whoever. I could also get embroidery estimates from local shops here.

Well, actually I do have one old machine but last time I tried I spent more time adjusting and readjusting thread tensioners and picking out botched stitches than I did embroidering. I'll take another look at it.
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Pete D Offline
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#10
You can see the embroidered emblem on the hats and polo shirts in the Merchandise page. Not sure what it would cost to get something like that enlarged to where it would look good on a table cover???
Pete Dunham


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