First Things First

Jon Kosmoski’s NEW Kustom Painting Secrets, and Custom Bike Building Basics by Chris Callen are scheduled to ship to us later this week, which means we will be getting them out to our loyal readers next week. I’m pleased to say that we have individual back orders for both books. Krista in our office has all the envelopes labeled and ready to go – all we need now is the books themselves.

I’m writing this blog from Florida, where I’ve been busy attending a wedding for an old friend, and taking photos that will surely end up in a new Wolfgang book scheduled for the fall of this year: How To: Airbrush, Pinstripe & Goldleaf. Today I’m lucky enough to be in Plant City, north of Tampa, where the talented Mr. Dave Knoderer, owner of Letterfly Pinstriping, puts stripes and airbrush designs on everything from Ford trucks to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Shown nearby is the Air Force emblem being placed on an Ultra, and both our Facebook pages have a shot of the more traditional pinstripe design he created on a F150 yesterday.

Though Dave from Letterfly is very capable with an airbrush, he creates a lot of his images the old-skool way, by hand with One-Shot paint and a lettering quill.