A Pin Up Blog? Why yes, a Pin Up Blog.
I Don't know when I became fascinated with Pin Up girls, but at some point I found myself looking through the old magazines at an antique mall searching for images that I liked.
I've played guitar for many years, and I've always liked a good pin up girl sticker on a Fender
Strat.
At the time, you could buy stickers like the one seen here, and put them on your guitar. I had an idea to find some images in the public domain and see if I could figure out how to put them on a guitar and re-clear coat the guitar so that it was part of the paint job, not just a sticker.
That sent me down a long road. I found some images in old publications that were not by any of the major pin up artists, and then I had a law student in Washington DC research the images for me at the Library of Congress to see if any of them had a valid copyright.
I was able to find some of the images were in the public domain.
That's my collection so far. I tried a few different techniques to get them on a guitar including water transfers, and a thin vinyl decal, but I wasn't able to get a really good result. Plus I would need to get a nice paint booth to make it look as good as I wanted it to.
So at this point, I've abandoned the idea for now of putting these images on guitars.
But I did a lot of work and spent a lot of money to get things to this point, so now I've put these images on t-shirts.
If you're a pin-up fan, I hope you like them. I make a buck or two on each shirt, but I'm doing it more for people who just want a cool Pin Up to wear.
Check out the t-shirt shop here:
http://www.printfection.com/pinupstuff
I'd appreciate any comments you have.
I just ordered a shirt myself, I'll post when I get it to let you know how it turned out.
Thanks
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This was very exciting for me. I've had these pin up images sitting around on the computer for years. In fact, I almost lost all the work I had done when we went through Hurricane Katrina. I was able to resurrect the files from water damaged back up C's. And this is the first shirt I've gotten.
I got quite a few compliments on the shirt my first day out.
