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Fourteen loud ones, and the rest of the slate

Drawn by hand from tonight's research: the union's facts, the words boilermakers actually use, and the things the union never printed in 146 years (no sticker series, no parody packaging, no rank ladder, no rivalry, no apprentice humour, no Philly). Every piece is live text in an editable file; colour and copy are still open. Round ones are 3-inch die-cuts. Nothing here is official, nothing sells nicotine, no ZYN wordmark, no union seal.

13 mg lid: NOT A STRENGTH · A LODGE; 3, 6, 9, 11 are pouches, 13 is the hall — **13 is not a strength**His own joke made the signature. 3, 6, 9 and 11 are pouches; 13 is the hall.3-inch lid · can series · anchor

APPRENTICE 3 mg lid: 65% pay, 100% errands; warning: will be sent for a sky hook — **Apprentice · 3mg**Bottom of the rank ladder. 65% pay, 100% errands, and keep it away from the 7018.3-inch lid · rank ladder 1 of 4

THE HALL 13 mg lid: 2300 New Falls Rd; warning: this product runs the list — **The Hall · 13mg**Top of the ladder. The address is real, the meeting night is real, the strength is not.3-inch lid · rank ladder 4 of 4

Rod can label: LOCAL 13 ELECTRODE 7018, low hydrogen, keep in the oven, 6010 stays out — **Rod-can belly label**Sticks on the real 50-lb can. The one product every boilermaker already owns.4 × 2.5 inch label

Sky hook certified card with checked boxes: sky hook, pipe stretcher, left-handed hammer, bucket of steam — **Sky hook certified**The Scumbag Apprentice sequel: a certification for the tools he got sent to fetch.4 × 3 inch card

THIS JAWN IS UNION round sticker, Local 13 Philadelphia, youse know it — **This jawn is union**The most Philly sentence a sticker can say. The one a non-boilermaker still buys.3-inch round

W.A.S.P. shield: Welders Against Stupid Pipefitters, we build the drum — **W.A.S.P.**Welders Against Stupid Pipefitters, as a lodge crest. Three-pack it with MILLWRONGS and RODBUSTERS.3 × 3.3 inch shield

Red sign: HIT IT WITH YOUR PURSE, Local 13 rigging dept — **Hit it with your purse**The rigging taunt, on a sign, with a hammer.4 × 2 inch sign

Matchbook cover: STRIKE ANYWHERE, Section IX welder, Local 13, close cover before striking — **Strike anywhere**Strike the arc, strike the job. The union-hall matchbook this union never printed.1.5 × 2 inch matchbook

Orange hazmat placard: 8 AND SKATE, Saturday, class 13 — **8 and skate**The Saturday hope as a hazmat placard.3-inch diamond

Yellow safety sign: IT'S A TACK, NOT A HINGE. Do not lean on the joint — **It's a tack, not a hinge**A welding taunt with OSHA-sign authority, the one visual language the union owns outright.4 × 3 inch sign

Confined space entry permit tag: DRUM CREW, attendant: the apprentice, hole watch: same guy — **Drum crew entry permit**The mud drum is where boilermakers live. Attendant: the apprentice. Hole watch: same guy.2 × 3.5 inch tag

Gauge sticker: 6,000 hours, turned out, Local 13 class of — **6,000-hour club**The hour meter rolls over the day you turn out. A hall could hand these out.3-inch round · turn-out gift

Side band wrap: LOCAL 13 · NIGHT SHIFT · 13mg · TURNAROUND SEASON — **Turnaround season (the wrap)**Fits around the real 70 mm can where the flavour band goes.220 × 15 mm side band

In action the real art on real objects: his cooler, a welding hood, a stack of tool cases

Honest demo shots: the actual sticker files placed onto photographs with a perspective transform, a shadow and the photo's own light. Nothing is redrawn by a generator; every letter is the file you can download. His cooler is his own photo; the hood and the cases are public-domain photographs.

13 is not a strength and This Jawn Is Union on the client's teal Engel cooler next to his Scumbag Apprentice sticker — **On his cooler**13 is not a strength and This Jawn Is Union, next to his own Scumbag Apprentice, at three inches.

The Hall and Apprentice lids on a black welding hood, the rod-can label on the welding machine — **On a welding hood**The Hall on the band up on the dome, Apprentice 3mg by the lens, the rod-can label on the machine.

Eleven stickers across a stack of tool cases — **On the case stack**Sky Hook Certified, the 6,000-hour gauge, The Hall, W.A.S.P., 8 and Skate, Greetings from Newportville, Hit It With Your Purse, Tack Not Hinge, Strike Anywhere, the Drum Crew permit, the errand pins.

Not drawn yet ten more on the slate

The eagle lands

3-inch lid, gold

FLAVOUR: FRIDAY · THE EAGLE LANDS
roundel: 40 hrs (+ the OT)
Per diem in the pocket. Card in the wallet.

Stands on: "the eagle lands" = payday [x-vocab §2].

clean

Two-county boomer

3-inch lid

TRAVELER · HOME LOCAL 13 · 2-COUNTY BOOMER
Eastern PA and New Castle County, DE.
Anything further is a vacation.

Stands on: boomer / "2 County Boomer" [x-vocab §2]; jurisdiction verified [FACTS 16].

nicotine-parody

Long cut

3-inch lid, dip-tin idiom

BOILERMAKER · LONG CUT · SINCE 1880
MADE RIGHT

Stands on: the other round can on a hard hat [sticker-culture §1]; "made right" is the union's own line [FACTS copy 7]. Tin anatomy needs a physical check.

trade dress · union copy

Shade 10

2-inch round for the hood

SHADE 10 · HOOD DOWN · HALL OPEN · LOCAL 13

Stands on: hood-down vocabulary [x-vocab §3].

clean

Nickname roster

sheet of 8 small rounds

POET · SQUIRREL · DR. DEATH · STINKY
BULLET · STUMP · OLDHEAD · BOUL

Stands on: the union's own video [FACTS copy 13]; Philly words [x-vocab §5].

clean

Wit / witout

3-inch round

UNION: WIT
RAT SHOP: WITOUT

Stands on: cheesesteak grammar [x-vocab §5]; rat shop [x-vocab §2].

clean

Youse, not yinz

2 × 4 inch bumper strip

LOCAL 13 · YOUSE
(NOT YINZ · THAT'S 154)

Stands on: Local 154 Pittsburgh; 1,800+ PA boilermakers [FACTS 19].

clean

The hall, travel-decal style

4-inch oval

GREETINGS FROM NEWPORTVILLE
2300 NEW FALLS RD · LOCAL 13

Stands on: address [FACTS 15]; retro travel-decal is a documented gap [GRAPHICS-HISTORY].

clean

One word since 1906

3 × 2 inch typographic

BOILERMAKERS
one word since March 1906

Stands on: [FACTS 4].

clean

Chartered 1924 · hall edition

3-inch lid, gold/black/white, numbered

LOCAL 13 · 1924 · CHARTERED · NEWPORTVILLE
18 80 is the brotherhood. 13 is the hall.
HALL EDITION · No. ___ of 100

Stands on: charter April 23, 1924 [FACTS 14]; the 2024 seal is gold/black/white (pixel-verified); no hall-only edition documented [GRAPHICS-HISTORY].

union-official-mark if traced (it is not)

Same brief, other seats what the vendor seats drew from the identical brief

Each seat got the same five-concept brief. Neither can see its own render, so every round needs eyes in the loop. Shown as drawn, defects included.

Grok 4.6 seat: five lids in a vintage badge style — **Grok 4.6 (headless, flat sub) · 8.5 min**Vintage badge take: black wordmark band, arched text top and bottom. Tidy craft, quiet volume, wrap unreadable. Worth stealing the band.files/design-grok/

Gemini 3.1 Pro seat, revision 2: five lids with boxed warnings — **Gemini 3.1 Pro (agy, flat sub) · 2 rounds, 3 + 2.5 min**Round 1 clipped its warning text at the cut; round 2 boxed it but now runs the rim line through the box. The short wrap is the best wrap of the night.files/design-agy-v2/ (round 1 in files/design-agy/)

The one call for Jeremy: keep the fake WARNING band and mg roundel on the can series, or go warning-free and keep the joke only in the roundel? Default if I hear nothing: keep it, clearly fake and adult, with a clean variant of every can.

Files: every piece is an editable SVG with live text plus a 300-dpi PNG under /files/design-fable-v2/. Sources: fact sheet, vocabulary, graphic history and gaps, union and field, sticker culture, can anatomy.