This is a bit dated I know but for those who haven’t heard my friends at Swahili Bob’s Tattoo and Piercing moved to their new location

Birkag. 33 11339 Stockholm

And although they where happy to bring along the original sign I made them way way back in 2005 (my first Stockholm sign job!) The new location needed more, so..

Both windows where painted with the new logo (a nice design by Papa Bear) and I also made up a Blingin’ Southside Minneapolis/Vandervaartian style Sandwich board for ‘em !

Recently I did some custom text and 50’s inspired weirdie striping on these parts for a customized HD Night Rod.
The bike belongs to Janne who organizes the vintage drag racing meet, Blacksmith nats. Janne’s dedication to the sport is reflected in the text, as there are 1320ft (1/4 mile) in the length of a drag strip. with I’m Looking forward to seeing it all built up, should be sweet it is going to be all black and grey.

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Here is some side jobs from when I was down in Lund teaching the Pinstripe class.

First up I had a Shoebox from Magnus of the De Bops car club. Magnus had given is custom a nice flame job and all that was left was the outlines to make them pop.

After that Magnus had me letter the car name.

-that’s spanish for “shoebox”
you can check out more from the De Bops club on their website, http://debops.se/

The other project was for Fredrik who has Hanshifters Motorcycles in Skåne. He came up with a whole concept for the lettering and striping. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical but it turned out great in the end. The pinstripes in gold on the tank follow the style of crocker scalloping, this is then intertwined with the outline of a 1930’s Harley tank emblem which then creates the inner scallop of the teardrop which creates the background for the Handshifters logo! Not a bad idea, Check it out ..

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Here is a logo I designed for Annika Lindström. Annika is a master seamstress, is a specialist in mending vintage denim and also produces her own label, Blackboard. Check out her clothing or contact her for alterations or other services via blackboardlabel.com

The logo is brushed freehand in a one stroke casual with a relief drop shadow. The colors have then been corrected for print.

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Finished up the lettering and striping on Robin’s bike the other night, this is third project from the belladonna trackers

Started lettering and striping on the Robins new project down in the belladonna trackers garage …

…. more pics very soon, I’m heading back to square it off later today!

Here is my latest Nose Art style jacket. the pin-up is inspired from a found image from WW2 jacket and a similar from a WW2 planes nose art. The machine gun and lettering I came up with myself. The letterstyle used is my own script but it is modified to resemble a 1930’s speedball text called “personality script”
As usual the fades are all brush blended wet-to-wet rather then airbrushed for durabilities sake.

I was asked to letter a special message to those who haven’t figured out the whole Rat Rod thing yet..

Retro Måleri now have a 2nd Volvo Duett and of course I had the job to letter to match the first!

I did the painting at my vehical painting venue motorbörsgaraget. The garage is a great place to work, being surrounded by so many classic cars and rods makes the ideal working climate!

Only in Sweden…. a high school that offers a Speed Shop Class !!!!
Believe it or not under the course of a year students enrolled in the Tumba Gymnasium are able to learn how to build Hot Rods in this fully furnished metal shop.

If you would like to see the school Speed Shop, their rat rod as well as lots of hot rods and customs, the class is hosting a mini car show February 28th.. (info on the meet here)

Shop teacher and wishbones CC member Christer Vestergren asked me a while back if I could come in and demonstrate some painting techniques for his class. The task was to letter the schools logo on their latest project, a dropped rat rod pick-up!

Here are some pictures I took during my visit …

And some very nice photos from the speed shop’s assistant and photo student Kaido Kross (check more of his photos here) ..Thanks Kaito!