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Can't be that ratty ... I don't see a ding or spot of rust, barely a watermark on the chrome. Does just painting a car flat black make it a rat rod? Clean, tight designs. Less is more ... very nice.
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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George that is really beautiful!!! And very inspiring for me!
Want to ask... do you take a pattern with you to transfer to the vehicle, or do you draw it up with a stabilo? And if you use a pattern, do you pounce it on?
I "cranked out" a quickie panel for my brother late Saturday & gave it to him to hang in his new garage wall. Men seem to like "swirlie-striper" panels for their garages, & it is such good, fun practice!
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Bobbie, I used fine line tape as guides on the headlights and a simple grid on the decklid. Since this car was primer, I used chalk for the grid, stabillos don't clean off primer very easily.
I sometimes use a pounce pattern on intricate designs on taligates. You can cheat and fold the pattern in two, or in quarters, layout one part and when you pounce it you will get a perfectly symetrical design. The drawback to using a pattern when striping is you tend to wipe the design off with your fingers. It's best to go over the pounce lines with a stabillo.
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Thank you George, for the pointers. I really do appreciate them!
Hey, I am getting so inspired, like I don't want to quit! One night a couple of weeks ago, I was actually dreaming of myself striping, & in the dream, every line, every effert was close up, like I was learning in my sleep.
A customer gave me his mailbox to letter with vinyl, then last nite I went & put a nice swirlie design on it that I got from my Vector Art cd., & delivered it today. He really liked it!
The thing I find the hardest are the actual swirled circles! I watched Dan use a Swirlie Q brush on my box at the Zoo, then went & bought myself one, & can't get it to do that! Lol! Guess I have to keep at it!
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thewordinsigns@alltel.net Posts: 3485 | From: Jamestown, PA 16134 | Registered: Oct 2002
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Bobbie - Isn't it funny how that works? I've bought those same brushes and never can seem to get them to work like I see the other guys doing. I must have got a defective brush!
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