Many thanks Paul for the very interesting information, Tom Caperton also
suggested the stick on stripes and suggested 3M brand and I checked today
and they are available here. Not wanting to try it by hand, unless mabe I
had a touch or two of whatever that chap had while he disappeared?? My other
thought was to take truck to town and have a signpainter tackle it. Thanks
to Tom and your suggestions, will pick up the 3M striping tomorrow and pray
for the 1 1/2" snow that came today will melt away soon.
Regards, Don
Regina Beach, Sk. Canada.
48 American 3/4 & 51 Canadian 1/2 {Chevs.}
----- Original Message -----
From: <Hudson29@aol.com>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 6:57 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Truck Striping
> Don asked:
>
> "do you or anyone on list know how to apply this, so that it will look
like
>factory original? Think a steady hand would be needed??????"
>
> I can think of 5 ways to lay down a stripe that have results from
excellent
>to awful.
> The worst way is to use masking tape and a brush. The paint always seems
to
>bleed under the tape, and the result looks very amateurish.
> Masking tape with an airbrush might work out well, if you can somehow get
the
>tape parallel.
> Tape stripes are very popular, and can look pretty decent. I think that
tape
>quality is very important in the end results. They do always look like
tape,
>and may eventually will peel here and there. They can also fade at
different
>rates so that portions of the car appear to have different color stripes. I
>did my Norton Commando fuel tank with gold stripes and clear coated the
>combination to seal the tape. The results look very good unless you look
very
>carefully.
> Those little Bugler machines that you see at swap meets are said to
produce
>excellent results in skilled hands. I have seen work that was claimed to
have
>been done this way, and it was good enough that I would have paid for it.
> The best way is the way it was done when these vehicles were new - by
hand!
>The Human hand with a good stripping brush was used by the factories and
that
>method still gives the best results. Stripers tend to be "characters" and
the
>work is more art than science. One of the best stripers around this area
>travels in a van from job to job. It is suspected that he lives in his van
as
>well as working out of it. He is a jittery nervous sort of fellow and does
not
>inspire confidence at first meeting. After talking to the restorer to get a
>feel for the job, he "disappears" for a while and when he reappears his
>jitters are gone and he is ready for work. What he does while he
"disappears"
>is the subject of much speculation.
> An oft told story in the Ford clubs is that Henry Ford, who was a strict
task
>master was forced to relax his work requirements in regard to only one
>category of worker - stripers. They often did as they saw fit and laid the
>stripes where their individual whims dictated rather than where the Ford
>manual dictated. Model As for example, have been known to have different
>stripes on the left and right sides of the same car. The stripers stood
near
>the end of the line and worked from the front to the back as the car rolled
>by. As long as the stripes met up in the back, few customers ever
discovered
>the differences!
> Stripers can be found in both the restoration and hot rod communities. Ask
>your friends for good steers.
>
>Paul O'Neil,
>1951 Chevrolet 3600 Pickup Project, See it at:
>The Poor Man's Advanced Design Tech Tips Page
>http://home.earthlink.net/~conntest47/
>Fullerton, California USA
>Hudson29@aol.com
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