Do you think that is his first attempt at striping?
Posted by Brian Diver (Member # 1552) on :
Holy cow is right! Pretty impressive to say the least!
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
wow.....in a white shirt to boot !
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
So, does he load the brush handle with color? I never saw him palette or shape his brush. Seems like he's painting a moving target and seldom looking straight on. Let's get him to a pinhead meet!
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Same brush for the tick and tin line as well... I used french for Thick and Thin so Rene could understand.. being french and all. lol
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Rick, he's pallatting offscreen to the left. Neil, if you did this all day long day after day, you would be that good or better. Watching this guy work reminds me of Brian Hansen from Canada.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
i wana see the OTHER SIDE done.......and see how close they are.hehehehehehehehehe. when i was in college, i used to do a pottery wheel throwing demo, for the CON-ED classes, and i wore white levi's. never got a drop of clay on them either.
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :
Hey Joe wake ya fatass up, thats a factory line up and of course its gonna be right.
I'm more interested in the brush with that particular handle.
When I wasn't so old and fragile I done things that way using a #4 Grumbacher, of course the layout is in front of us..
Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
Thanks for posting that. I can see that I have been doing them the wrong way.
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
Neil, the French thing is probably more Pierre than me, on numerous occasion I've seen Pierre letter and/or stripe so many times with a 3/4" brush making thick and thins like anything....
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
What's really impressive is the flow he's getting out of the metallic gold paint. I wish there was a way to slow the video down, I can't tell if he's laying the brush over on it's side to pull the haevy stroke or just bearing down on it.
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Wow... that's pretty awesome. I bet he even did it sober!! Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
That's his job and he probably only knows one way to do it as a production employee. If you have ever seen the production stripers laying lines on cars of the 20's and 30's it was done very quickly and sometimes 2 people on the same car. But, my hat is off to anyone handling a brush like that...
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
NIce stuff!
(Actually I did an old tank like that in a gold bronze powder, mixed into urethane clear a couple of months ago-well, February. I did get my son to video me for a few seconds on the camera & can upload it later when our highspeed internet gets reset next month, if anyone's interested.
I was nowhere near that quick at all, but otherwise it was somewhat similar. I reckon it's the same brush used sideways- great work-thanks for the link, Neil!)
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
He pushes down on the brush to get the thicker stroke. I'd like to see what kind of brush he's using as well. It may be specially made for that job. The paint, being that's it's not in the USA, may contain lead, hence the good coverage. If I had to do that stroke over and over again, I'd get used to it too. Just like scrambling an egg.
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
It also looks to be right on top of the clear coat, it impressed the hell out of me... but if it is not clear coated, will it hold up? but his skill is amazing!
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
"will it hold up?"
It depends on what the paint actually is. Could it be a matallic gold urethane, already?
Back in the 80s, I striped a few bike tanks & guards in plain old enamel- and some in gold bronze powder mixed into a UV-clear varnish. Some of these were over 2K, some were over lacquers, and some over baked enamels. NOne were clearcoated after I;d finished, and any later fades are part of the antiquey look I was told-not that they wanted them to fade, but a bit of a brushmark was a 'feature' to prove it wasn't plastic striping, they used to say...
Posted by Jim Moser (Member # 6526) on :
I too would love to see that brush ! And find out where to get some ! He is following a line drawn on the tank from a pattern. It's interesting the way he is holding the brush, and the way he moves the tank as he is applying the line. If we did that all day, every day we would get pretty good at if too !
[ May 26, 2011, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Jim Moser ]
Posted by Pierre Tardif (Member # 3229) on :
I guess it's a regular sword striping brush with a "real" handle,surely big size like #3 or 4. It answered many questions I had trying to manipulate those short handle striping brushes to make curves. I now don't feel ashame to use the long handle for such duty!
BTW even if the guy is doing hundreds of those every week, it takes talent and dedication to do it with such speed and precision. Two thumbs up!
[ May 27, 2011, 10:55 PM: Message edited by: Neil D. Butler ]
Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
OK- I guess I can't read very well- I thought the post said "Think you're good at STRIPPING??? -- and the answer would be: "apparently NOT!"
So then I come back and watch the video, you know, to get some pointers or tips... and all it was was some foreign guy handling motorcycle parts... so I thought it was some new exotic technique or something...
Long story short, my wife was not impressed with what I learned in this video- not only do I have to keep my clothes on at all times, now, but she got real angry when I spilled metallic paint on the bed cover, and now I have to replace my kid's moped gas tank... Thanks for nothing!
Posted by Jim Moser (Member # 6526) on :
quote:Originally posted by Si Allen: Looks like a brown quill to me ... full width for the thick stripe and chiseled for the thin stripe!
Does look like a quill that is cut on an angle. Also he is changing the line width by using more pressure, not rolling the brush from the chiseled edge to the flat side....
Posted by Gonzalo (Peewee)Curiel (Member # 3837) on :
Not sure what he's using... But I think I spoke to the narrator last time my Dell took a crap. He has skills!
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