Those of you who work with vinyl mask know how frustrating it can be at times when you cannot really see the cuts on your mask. This can make it very difficult to properly weed out and can cause you to end up with missing pieces of a design. Force your cut lines to stand […]
The Tattoo You Stencil from Mike Learn’s Air Essentials is crammed full of tattoo style artwork that can be used in dozens of layouts. Take a close look at all the different templates that are wrapped up into this one handheld stencil. We will most likely do multiple tutorials on this particular stencil. For the […]
For those of you who do not know it, in Mike’s “spare” time, he builds custom guitars and currently has a patent pending on a new guitar style. While we are waiting for patent protection before we begin production on that particular model, Mike has decided to start a new series of custom one-off electric […]
For the Better Life Foundation’s Katrina Relief Concert The piece that you will see here is a Genz Benz amp cover. It was recently donated to a concert benefitting Katrina victims. The Band 3 Doors Down is from the stricken area and they organized and headlined this event. Lightening is one of the easiest effects […]
With the nearly unlimited font resources that we have today, very often you can find a type style that is almost exactly what you are looking for. Want to know how to make that font editable so you can get that extra tweak, add a bevel, etc? It’s easy! Using a vector program like Adobe […]
This is a question we see time and time again not only on this site, but on others as well. “How do I remove tape residue without compromising the artwork?” There is no ONE right way to do it, but over the years we have learned a couple different methods that will do to the […]
I have been working with the Jackson Custom shop since 2003. The projects they send me are generally a lot of fun because the Jackson guys really allow me full creative control. As a life long guitar player and enthusiast myself, I am very familiar with Jackson’s branding and I am able to work within […]