All About Pocket Knives

This is something that I have been kicking around in my head for awhile now.As you may or may not know,most of the lettering done on my 1955 Pontiac Safari wagon is a tribute to artists whom I have either known or have had an influence in my life.The other is mostly sayings I have observed from my travels or have read or heard.

Anyway I got this idea for a panel that would pay homage to these people that are no longer with us and could be displayed at the various charity automotive art auctions I attend.I contacted a good friend and fellow artist to help me construct the panel.

It will be made from a sheet of aluminum approximately 24" wide and 4 ft long.The ends will be rolled to simulate an unfurling scroll and it will be painted the color of parchment and artificially aged around the edges.It will be displayed on a stand.The title of the panel will be the,"Scroll of Sorrow".It will list the names of the artists along with their birth and death dates.

In the meantime I took a section of a painted area on my car that somewhat resembled the shape I was looking for and over painted a scroll onto the fender.I then began to letter the names of artists on the scroll. So far I have managed to fill about half of the scroll and I know that I have barely scratched the surface.It is just my way of saying thanks to all the people I have known in the trade and those who have influenced me to become what I have today.

Here is a picture of the scroll as it stands today along with some detail shots of the other art work.Hope you enjoy it.

Really cool, knife7!

i knew von dutch...when he was in tempe...
his bus was a mobile machine shop with a bed in back...an beer cans on the floor.

gringo wrote:i knew von dutch...when he was in tempe...
his bus was a mobile machine shop with a bed in back...an beer cans on the floor.

Never had the honor of meeting him but understand he was,"unique". The bus/machine shop/home was purchased by another striper from out that way(Steve Kafka) for an ungodly amount of money($150,000 if I remember correctly)and a lot of the stuff was missing from it but some of the painted areas were still intact. Steve is currently doing a complete restoration of the bus.

unique? yep...
one of the guys who used to work in his shop is over in prescott...bob burns...has a sign shop...
i am going to wander over there after the monsoon begins and look him up...perhaps he will remember me...

dutch never threw me out of the shop{ he had a reputation for not suffering fools}...so i guess i wasn't to bad to deal with back then...learned a lot about metal from him...

Although I've never met Bob personally I do know he was a close associate of Dutch.I've seen a couple of letters to him from Dutch that had been posted on a forum.