Q: 1934 Ford Pinstrping stencil body line

[tubman]

Again, I hate to be pedantic, but it's "striper" not "stripper".

Over the years, I have had more fun with the latter than the former, which says a lot about me.

[ford38v8]

I’ll walk back my statement to agree that not everyone could make the cut as a striper, but then, to stripe a Ford is a craft not an art, and practice can make a craftsman out of many if not most guys. One thing for sure, failure is certain if you don’t try.

[DavidG]

It's definitely a skill requiring certain capabilities that no amount of practice can impart. Even using the modern tapes, tight corners such as on the back of the quarter panels on '33-'34 coupes and roadsters require free-hand skill to keep the correct stripe width and spacing from the edge of the molding. And then there are most of the '32s with their cowl top stripes as part of the upper belt molding stripes and the nightmare of the eight stripes on the four moldings book-ending across the deck/rumble lid/upper rear quarter panels on standard/sport coupes and roadsters. The cheaper the body type, the more striping it had.

[blucar]

Reading through the many comments about pin-striping, a dusty corner of my brain opened up causing me to recall my experience with pin-striping.
When I had my '36 Ford coupe repainted in 1961, which was it's first repaint over the original black paint.
I wanted to get the original apple green pin-strip redone, however, there was not a pin-striper in the area. Recalling an on going ad in Poplar Mechanics I ordered a Pin-striping tool that I still have in a box in my tool box.
I Goggled Pin-striping tools a few minutes ago an up popped an ad for Beuglher Pin-striping tools in CA.
Attached is a pix of a portion of the apple green pin-strip I did on my '36 coupe.