my first pinstriping

jensen (superlow05) told me if i bought the brushes i could stripe his truck. so i went and bought some brushes yesterday and went and parcticed with the brushes for about 10 minutes before i striped his door panels. this was the first time i ever done it and i was pretty happy with the way it turned out..

and next week sometime i am going to do the same thing to his whole front end around the flames

I am not trying to be a dick here, but dont do the entire front of his truck like that........practice alil more.

We were happy with the way it turned out.. Still planning on doing the rest of it!

quick lil funny story bout that style: the guy that orig. started doin that ended up w/ that result cuz his striper was out sick and couldnt finsh the job, so he grabbed the guys brushes (thinkin it prolly wasnt that hard lol) and fubar'd the job; but the customer loved how it came out. -true story-

--there are many many variations of the xhatch style. and every artist has their own style as well.

Ive heard that story too. What brush are you using?

i think it looks good, but on the front end just remember less is more

back when my sonoma was painted, the whole truck as striped like that, didnt look so bad, heres some pics. It was painted back in 01, i do think less is more, and the truck would have been painted at lot less "loud" and with smoother stripes on some of it.

i dont think it looks that bad for ya first time, im not gunna jank ya cause i couldnt do anything that close lol

def not bad for his first time and i wasnt knockin him, just said practice alil more b4 you do the dudes whole truck like that.....less is more as you can clearly see in mikegm99s pics....

It's a Mack 000 brush. Still gunna practice.. I'm no mikey!!

its just like anything else, practice practice practice. its all bout brush control and pressure.

was tryin to find another pic of this scion i did for a friend from aftermath, but couldnt find it, the xhatch we did on his 2tone was very clean and precise. not overdone at all

i think it looks good, especialy for your first time. I will say it's a lil busy for my taste but by no means am I knockin it. On Baileys truck the coolest part to me was the purple bubbles. It's kinda funny cause the only 2 things he asked Brannon not to do is use purple or put bubbles in it. LoL

one thing to remember on that s10 is....Is the customer/owner happy? if so, then thats all that matters

Blue ferrule or green? If its green, I would get a blue. It makes a pretty big difference. The green ferrule brush is more for touch ups and the blue one is made more for striping. Ill bring you one when I come to the meet this weekend if you cant get one locally.

well the customer and owner is gonna be very happy! lol itll make the truck look alot better too but im thinkin about take the flames off and just havn some pinstriped on it with green and blue... instead of the whole frnt end just bright green....

Mikey, remember doin these... whole job in 15 minutes!

lol yea, that guy was a punk. drive all the way down to cocoa for that OT bbq just to do that truck and as soon as we get there. "hey buddy i gotta leave in 20min., dont worry bout it" pissed off was an understatement. and he wasnt even gonna pay my gas. what a douche. lol

there seems to be alotta douches around

yeah that does sound pretty douchey of the guy mikey, i kinda like the hatch style look, doesnt look bad to me on most jobs ive seen

not my style but i respect each persons style