This site is dedicated to the preservation of the art of traditional pinstriping. Pinhead Lounge is a growing and active online striper's community! What you'll find here is a list of artists who use a specialized pinstriping brush such as those made by Mack and lettering enamels such as one-shot to lay out extremely beautiful and stark symmetrical patterns on a variety of media. Pinstriping by hand is a delicate, time-consuming fine art, and it needs to be shown off. Pinhead Lounge is an archive for artists to share images of their work and keep the art form alive. Stripers and hand-lettering artists are encouraged to host their striping portfolios here for public perusal. This service will help raise general awareness about traditional and kustom pinstriping and help artists to market their portfolios. If you are looking at hiring an artist, please browse the portfolios for striping a style that suits your needs, and contact that artist directly through their contact information in their showcase.

July 30, 2007 - I've taken the site off autopilot for a few days to fix some issues with the comment system and I'm cleaning up some old striping accounts. This place pretty much runs itself and it's been pretty well behaved - just a bit of weeding to do. It's amazing to look back over some people's early work on here and see how far they've come. I hope it stays hoppin' like it has been recently - We're just tipping the scales on 11,000 unique images of pinstriping and lettering - Damn we're good. Thanks everyone and if you notice any stuff messed up, please let me know here. Now back to being jealous of awesome striping jobs.

August 18, 2006 - Excuse my dust. I'm updating the rating system on the site, so please sit tight and we'll be back with a much more fair comment system instead of unexplained stars. I'm doing this in an effort to get more dsicussion and less false clicks.

January 27, 2006 - Update Your Bookmarks! I'm not sure how much longer my old site will be at 66.183.188.190 , so please update your bookmarks to http://www.pinheadlounge.com whenever you get a chance. IE Users: Click Here to Bookmark this Page!

I'd like to publicly thank Ray "El Vago" Smith for being such a great supporter of the art of pinstriping. He sent me one of his beautiful wood pinstriping brushes adorned with the pinhead lounge name, and man do I ever dig it! Ray should be applauded for his efforts with the pinstriper's page, a Yahoo! Group that has had stripers all over the planet chatting since 2001! Thanks for teaching us young hands what it means to stripe, Ray!

January 20, 2006 - I finished updating the Pinstriping portfolio selection system last night. I've fixed a bug that kept showing the same highest rated pictures and I've made new images the default view. The Artist selection page is now in a sort of rolodex style. To find a striper, you can either pick the letter of their first name or search through by page. The search box is in a slightly different location now in order to expand the viewable area.

January 16, 2006 - The Pintriping Archive's Portoflio Section should get some new features shortly. I'm always looking for suggestions on how to make the interface easier to use, so drop me a line anytime if you'd like to see some things to improve the usability of the site. I haven't done much Striping since Christmas, I guess I should get back to the brushes.

January 13, 2006 - Happy new year to everyone! I think the site has finished its transition to the new server. If you notice any trouble with the pinstriping portfolios, logging into the site, or you are experiencing server downtime, please contact me here

December 24, 2005 - Christmas eve and It's 4AM. I've changed the DNS to the new server for the Pinstriping Archive. The service on this site should be a lot faster than before. make sure to update your links. the new server is http://www.pinheadlounge.com . the 66.183.blah address is no longer valid and will be forwarded to the new server once the DNS has propagated. Please refrain from uploading art on December 24th just to make the move easier.

December 17, 2005 - Happy Holidays Everyone! New stripers all across the board! I'm doing some little tweaks to the site here and there to get this site a little more exposed to the public. My new years resolution is to get this place busier! Thanks for a great year - hope you got all those striped switch plates and hubcaps done in time for santa's timely visit.

November 3, 2005 - Sorry for the temporary outage today. We're having a bit of the old fall weather, and it knocked the power out. Great to see all the new faces! This site has grown like crazy, and shows no signs of stopping.

January 22, 2005 - I see that word's getting around about this site. Thanks everyone for making this site a great corner of the internet. The work I'm seeing on here is just getting more and more spectacular. I'm noticing international members joining the site now, and I heartily welcome them.

signature: Kool Hand Luke

Well, striping is my gig when I am not south of the border, entertaining all the local town's people! Seriously though, I started striping about 4.5 years ago, and love it! I am amazed at the endless designs that can be layed down from the simple flow of a brush! Kool Hand Luke was chosen as my pen name early on as a joke; due to the fact that "Shakey McGee" wouldn't be very promising for a Pinstriping artist. After a while it just kinda stuck! I enjoy all things vintage! My likes: Jesus, Cars, bikes, art, tattoos, family, mexican food, etc.... I stripe a lot of vintage motorcycle helmets, and anything else that will hold paint! My dislikes: lack of imagination, bandwagon riders, and raisins!

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