Here is a picture I found the other day of a pinstriper at a motorcycle factory. Before they had computerized CNC machines and automated gizmos . . . the only way to get those fine lines were by hand. Image that. This guy palleted up his squirrel hair brush, and layed down the lines on all these tanks. I'll bet he got really good at it. He probably striped all the fenders too. I was looking at a factory 2009 Harley tank with stripes the other day - and the lines were all kinked and looked like shit. Some things may be best done by hand? A lost art to many motorcycle manufacturers. The tanks look as if they could be Harley or Excelsior???? Maybe Triumph? Oil tanks and fuel tanks possibly from the 1920s?Pinstriper
Here is a picture I found the other day of a pinstriper at a motorcycle factory. Before they had computerized CNC machines and automated gizmos . . . the only way to get those fine lines were by hand. Image that. This guy palleted up his squirrel hair brush, and layed down the lines on all these tanks. I'll bet he got really good at it. He probably striped all the fenders too. I was looking at a factory 2009 Harley tank with stripes the other day - and the lines were all kinked and looked like shit. Some things may be best done by hand? A lost art to many motorcycle manufacturers. The tanks look as if they could be Harley or Excelsior???? Maybe Triumph? Oil tanks and fuel tanks possibly from the 1920s?
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cool picture hot rod the old way it was done read the comments on the rest of your picters smoken joe
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