Ideas First - Safety Last, Creating A Custom Shop Sign

On any given sunday, we took the time to recharge the batteries and came up with something motivational for the shop. The decision was made that we needed to do some hand lettering, paint work and keep it under a couple of hours in actual time spent. With a huge project looming on the horizon that will require quite a bit of paint and massive scale for hand lettering, this was the perfect warm up project.

Piece of plywood to prep for painting

Measuring text to scale to draw in

Sketching in text after measuring size

Adding in red background with some latex paint

Basic idea is starting to come through

Laying down the white lettering

Black ink put down around white lettering

Bottom white lettering painted down

All lettering in white put down

Final sign completed and ready to hang on the wall to promote shop safety

The Door Panels of Viva Las Vegas

If you didn't make out to Las Vegas for this past weekend's monstrous car show, well damn, gotta say there were some amazing rides there. As you can expect, there were a lot of traditional hot rods, the omnipresent rat rod and most of all there were some seriously beautiful rides that showed up. One aspect that caught my attention were the amount of door panels with shop names on them. Check out a few of them and the rest of the ones we photo'd can be seen over on our flickr page.

Rusty Knuckles on Flickr - Viva Las Vegas Door panels

HomeWreka's Ironhead

Our buddy Gary took some quality time to put together his Ironhead. After riding it free and clean of paint it was time to add some flair to his tank. He enlisted Ryzart to hook up some quality gold leafing and paint lines and the final result is bitchin'.