pics & story of master pinstriper Steve Kafka striping my harley. [pics&story]
 

so i'd been planning on getting my bike striped and had stripes on the brain when i was stopped at a light and saw a cool hot rod getting striped in a parking lot. we all pulled over to check it out and lo & behold it was Steve Kafka's place. i had seen a lot of his stuff in my fascination with pinstriping and consider him a legend in the pin striping world


so i asked to super pretty please with everything on top to stripe my trickedout 08 dyna fatbob

so here's Kafka prepping up and my scoot all plain jane flat silver

http://www.dvdhotties.com/images/stripeman.jpg

he 1st slammed on his style of ghost flames. one line that at a glance makes the flames appear to be stamped out of the metal! fuckin hell ya!

http://www.dvdhotties.com/images/stripe.jpg


also put some killer freehand with a red to match the wheels

http://www.dvdhotties.com/images/stripe2.jpg

while chatting with him he mentioned he's been picked by the von dutch museum to recondition and restripe the *von dutch bus* which he showed me part of the hood from that he was currently restriping. it was classic von dutch- the old school stripe done to look like a hog's head. so i thought, let's get kafka to pay tribute to von dutch on my scoot by doing his version of that hog's face.

so that's what he put on my tail fender.

yessssssssssssssss!!!!1

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Looks good,how much did he nail ya for?

hahaha, man, it all happened so out of the blue i was still in a daze when i got the bill.

it was what it was eh not too bad since it was a small job rly, while we all shot the shit for a few hours, the actual stripes took about 20 minutes. lololololol

:pimp

you were in a daze cause some old fucker scribbled all over your nice clean ride?

Sweet... I know the guys that made your handlebars

that is truly an art.

he makes a bad ass product. :thumbsup

thx tony.

yay looks sweet :)

Congrats, makes your ride even more special:thumbsup:thumbsup

that was a cool bike :):):)

That freehand is incredible. Much respect and congrats.

That plate is gold :1orglaugh

Hot bike...Congrats!

are we talking 500-1000$ or 1000+?

I still love looking at that bike. The powdered black covers/exhaust look so much better than every other chromed out bike on the road. I really dig the gas tank "stamp" ....