Fender logos

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:36 pm

One of these days I'm gonna sand off a fender decal for a Squier one just for the luls

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:49 pm

Nick wrote:One of these days I'm gonna sand off a fender decal for a Squier one just for the luls

YES

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:12 pm

y'know I actually kinda like the squier decal more. idk. logos are logos. totally stupid to care about. trying to pass off shit for profit that's fake is fucked up though.

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:14 pm

I HAVE been asked to make a Vista decal for a person who was restoring their guitar that had a Fender decal added to replace the Squier one. Not very often that I see a request for a Squier decal though.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:57 pm

Mo Rawka wrote:

I've used Fender logo's before because blank headstocks look garbage imo. I'd have had no problem with a Squier logo but they were never available (to my knowledge) and since the custom decals became widely available I've used those.

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:36 pm

I've put Fender decals on a couple of my guitars. Wasn't out to fool no one. I just thought that was what I wanted
and since the real thing was financially out of my reach this temporarily made me happy. Lately it doesn't seem to matter so much.

I do use repro Fender decals on my vintage restorations. I've done lots of those.

With that said, I don't think anyone here would use a fender decal for anything other than personal taste.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:32 am

if you're restoring a real fender neck then it's appropriate, specially like a vintage fender. but otherwise it's taste. I think headstocks look nice blank. I'd kind of dig a blank Tele headstock.

I could deal w/o one on the rest of mine, but for jags and jazzes its essential, they look too bare. especially the jazzy, the swooshes on the decal make it.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:15 am

HNB wrote:
Nick wrote:One of these days I'm gonna sand off a fender decal for a Squier one just for the luls

YES

Hehe, and IRL I've got a lonely boring satin-tinted mappelz headstock that I'd really like to have a proper Squier label applied on.

100% Sans LULZ.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:45 pm

Ultra's cats are so rad. They don't have ears, but I'm love it anyway.

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:10 am

I'm against giving guitars false credentials, because in spite of everyone's best intentions, these guitars always seem to wind up on the open market.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:25 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:Ultra's cats are so rad. They don't have ears, but I'm love it anyway.

I gotsa agree, the last thing a cats who already ignore their staff owners needs, is to have their radar permanently switched off from birth. But they're so cool.

Viva los Globeheads.

JohnnyTheBoy · Post by **JohnnyTheBoy** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:34 am

My opinion is that if its Fender, replace with Fender...if its for a custom build then make yer own logo and be bloody proud of it...
As for Squier, they aint shit no more so why bullshit them up with a Fendur?
But i could quite easily be a hippocrite, as i would love a matching logo for my homebrew cab to match my 62 Bandmaster Head...

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:07 pm

just write something on with a sharpie if a blank headstock bothers you. if its a fender neck on a squier body i'd leave the logo alone I guess but fuck fender as a corporation fuck their corporate brand identity ,etc