pinstripe line
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Model "A" Fords
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This photograph shows that, sometimes the best man for the job is a woman!
Ford also used a worker on either side of the car to do the striping, although the strip didn't always match each other.
Can you imagine the skill required as the car was moving down the line! I guess that's why the stripers made the highest pay rate. Feel free to correct me if this was not the case.
Nice to fanaticize a pin striper holding his brush still as the car rolled by. After 50 years in that trade, I've yet to see it happen.
What you can learn from that picture is the bodies were striped very soon after painting and before adding obstacles like door handles, cowl lamps, and fenders.
What you can learn from that picture is the bodies were striped very soon after painting and before adding obstacles like door handles, cowl lamps, and fenders.
Not yet that I know of, but I've heard that you can have your prostate removed by a robot now.
Steve in Denver
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The women are in heals AND dresses!!! And holding HER brush still as the cars roll by.
Keith True
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I figured that for a promo shot.Heels like that for an 8 or 10 hour workday? I can see the dresses for work like that in the warm months,but that clean?No trash on the floor or on the carts,nice clean carts and paint cans,no dribs and drabs of paint anywhere.Still a good shot showing the pride they had in using women for what was always a mans job.
Dave Mellor NJ
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Do you suppose they had left handers on one side and right handers on the other?
notice the third lady in the work line, she's wearing a fancier dress which is floral, dark colors, wide white collar, sort of looks like what a secretary would wear to work. I think this is a "set-up" photo or the company told them they were going to be photographed so look your best. LRF
Chris in WNC
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Walking around the car?
A friend had his Tudor striped for fine point judging in about 1986.
He said the guy started at one side of the hood and walked right around the car without stopping.
A friend had his Tudor striped for fine point judging in about 1986.
He said the guy started at one side of the hood and walked right around the car without stopping.
Big hammer
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Set up ! The ladies on the opposite side are looking the photographer !
Gene F
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These comments are interesting. I have heard people say order the stuff and get a big piece of meatal and just play around. You will learn a lot faster than you'd think. My sister got the art bug, but it sure skipped over me!
I have always wanted to letter my back window, but could never work up the nerve.
I have always wanted to letter my back window, but could never work up the nerve.
Model "A" Fords
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You can see pinstriping being done on the Model A assembly line here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clYNiITQ-PA Starts at the 17 minute mark.
I don’t think a brush could hold enough paint in the bristles to do the entire car without stopping. Maybe he used a rollerball striping tool?
From what I've read of our 'era', stripers used a # 6 brush. While it could hold a large 'charge' of paint, by today's sizing it's 'foot print' would be large enough to paint the entire side of a car.
Possible reason for such a large brush was the almost exclusive use of fast drying 'striping', heavy pigment lacquers... ??
Wasn't there, can only guess.
Possible reason for such a large brush was the almost exclusive use of fast drying 'striping', heavy pigment lacquers... ??
Wasn't there, can only guess.
Synchro909
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The pin striping brushes used today are made of Squirrel hair (a creature we don't have) and they hold enough paint to easily do a line the whole length of the car. I little variation in the pressure on the brush changes the thickness (width) of the line.
BTW, when mixing the paint for the pin stripe, add the merest dash of paint the same colour as the body. It will look much better.
BTW, when mixing the paint for the pin stripe, add the merest dash of paint the same colour as the body. It will look much better.
Russian squirrel = expensive. A each brush gets it's personality from the mix of hairs used in combination to make for a stiff or soft brush.
Being hand made every brush has a different personality which is why a professional buys multiple. The perfect brush is one that creates a consistent thickness line. The striper guides, the brush does all the work.
Being hand made every brush has a different personality which is why a professional buys multiple. The perfect brush is one that creates a consistent thickness line. The striper guides, the brush does all the work.
spdway1
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Keith,
You seem to know a lot about wearing heels for an 8 or 10-hour workday. Is this from experience?
