Husky Burnette Digs The Dirty Blues Kind Of Shirt

Dirty Blues - Husky Burnette, brand new shirt design

Husky Burnette is gonna have a brand new shirt ready for next week at Muddy Roots. Sometimes keeping things simple is quite effective. The new shirt will be in available at our old store on site and online starting next week. Two color print on a smoke colored shirt.

New Illustration For Crafters Metal Fabrication

Final illustration for Crafters Metal Fab new tshirt graphics

Everything has to start with a core idea and I always try to find a different perspective for something that may have been told already many times over. For this new illustration I wanted to work up a design for a friends metal fabrication company without just showing an anvil and or fire relating to the centuries old context of a metal worker. Adding in a cow skull with soon to be added rivets and metal banding, the machinery from the shop juxtaposes the setting and gives it a different vibe. Ol' Randy looks to be pounding in a railroad spike into the skull and gives the viewer the idea that maybe its just more than metal work going on at Crafters Metal Fab.

Initial sketch after mocking up several ideas that didn't quite make the cut

Rusty Knuckles Wrench Knife Logo Merch

New Rusty Knuckles Wrench Knives logo tshirt and prototype leather wallet we have coming out in a few weeks.

Every day is a new adventure. Would like to thank everyone on Etsy for the huge response to our custom leather guitar straps, so here is a sneak peak at our next offering in the custom leather department. 2014 is going to be a great year and we will be having pop up shops at numerous motors and music related events.

Our brand new embroidered patches ready for 2014

"Snake Charmer" New Merch Design For Hellbound Glory

When I started out on ideas for a new merch design with Hellbound Glory, they were interested in an updated eagle graphic. Drawing animals is always quite fun as there are a plethora of pictures to look through online for great reference material. Depicting a snake on the other hand is no easy task as the devil is in the details. The snakes I sketch need to look like no other ones, especially cheesy tattoo flash style imagery.

One morning while postulating on the eagle imagery I kept thinking about some youtube videos I was watching with various birds attacking animals from above. The size of an Eagle's talons are no match for a snake and can be snatched up before he even knows how to defend himself. 

I wanted a bit more of a story to this illustration though and to open up the idea to loom a bit larger. Upon a bit more research I found more information on the Aztec imagery regarding an Eagle and a Snake. According to legend, the Aztec's were wandering the desert looking for a sign of their god Huitzilopochtli. He told them to find a bird perched on top of a cactus eating a snake and this is where their home should be. They found their sign on lake Texcoco and created the Aztec capital of Tenochtitl, which is now Mexico city and the reason a similar symbol is on their flag.

Once I had found that extra bit of info, I knew I was onto something good and ready to start sketching my Snake Charmer illustration from a mockup I created in photoshop. Have a look below to check out the process video mixed with a bit of Hellbound Glory and Smokey And The Bandit.

New merch design for Hellbound Glory entitled "Snake Charmer"

"Snake Charmer" merch design illustration detail for Hellbound Glory

"Snake Charmer" merch design illustration detail for Hellbound Glory

"Snake Charmer" merch design illustration detail for Hellbound Glory

"Snake Charmer" illustration detail Hellbound Glory

Brand New Jay Berndt Tshirts

Jay Berndt is really on the move in 2013. With a lot of new music being finished up and a whole new band that is currently playing with, the time is ripe for ol Jay to start being noticed by more fans far and wide. Upcoming in a few months will be a brand new 7" inch vinyl split that he is doing with J.B. Beverley and Buck Thrailkill. We know that it will be sonically bad ass, so now just wait until ya see the art as its gonna be killer. More posts will be coming up on this one shortly.

Jay Berndt & The Orphans new tshirt

Jay Berndt & The Orphans new tshirt

Beautiful Women, Dirty Rock N' Roll, Motorized Mayhem...

Beautiful Women, Dirty Rock N' Roll, Motorized Mayhem and much more is what we have in store for our new catalog coming out later this spring. As things have grown within the Rusty Knuckles camp so has our foot print world wide. We are shipping massive amounts of merch and music all over the US, Europe, Asia and Australia and can't thank everyone enough. We couldn't think of a better way to spread the good times than to create a full new catalog for everyone to oogle over for later this spring and to expand our distributor list. Not only will there be gorgeous women, but all the bands on the label will be a massive part of this catalog along with feature interviews. The catalog will be free to download by pdf and available on ipads. More details on everything soon.

Here is just a sample of some of the imagery that will be lurking onto your screens in May...

New Rusty Knuckles Merch, Order Now

The fellas over at Dime City Cycles had a photo shoot recently and really took some great shots of some of our merch. Along with these designs we have a few more upcoming for winter along with all of the band gear. Stay tuned for all sorts of holiday specials coming up along with another new record hitting our shelves around Thanksgiving, here is a hint, think Ramones, Antiseen and Flat Tires...

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Kick Start Chop Men's Tshirt

Back of shirt graphic