Making decals...who can help?

[javier-san]

I am thinking of ordering a BB&B neck for my shell pink jaguar from PST guitars. I know, it's not ethical to ask them to put a Fender Jaguar decal on the headstock and I don't feel completely comfortable (skills-wise) to put one after it has been shipped to me.

Would anyone be willing to help me make a decal that say "Faker" in the Fender type and the traditional Jaguar type. I feel like I have seen it here before!

[s_mcsleazy]

i know HNB used to do decals. he'll no doubt be along soon

[alexpigment]

If you want a logo that doesn't require any non-original letters, and looks like "Fender" without looking closely, there's the ever-popular "Ferden" (it's a thing over at the TDPRI):



This is especially easy to do on a spaghetti logo, since the "en" and "er" are in isolated groups, so they're easy to swap around. Just a thought

[Lost In Autumn]

Following. I used to get mine from ATEXXMusic.com but he isn't responding to emails now.

[Tumtrah]

A friend made Faker Jaguar decals layout for me. It's more like a Transition Logo and the colour matches not really well. I can email you a PDF for printing decals yourself. PM me if interested.

[javier-san]

A friend made Faker Jaguar decals layout for me. It's more like a Transition Logo and the colour matches not really well. I can email you a PDF for printing decals yourself. PM me if interested.

I'll PM you!

[javier-san]

If you want a logo that doesn't require any non-original letters, and looks like "Fender" without looking closely, there's the ever-popular "Ferden" (it's a thing over at the TDPRI):



This is especially easy to do on a spaghetti logo, since the "en" and "er" are in isolated groups, so they're easy to swap around. Just a thought

oh! How would I go about getting one of these decals?

[HNB]

I do make custom decals. It isn't hard to make your own. If you have a laser printer, you just buy laser waterslide paper to print your design on. Normally people print them backwards and color in the metallic part with a metallic pen or paint marker with a small point.

[Embenny]

I had mine made by Rothko & Frost and sent to PST.

It's a maple BB&B neck that I'm using to turn a natural ash Sixty-Six into more of a 70's Jazz Bass aesthetic, so this is what I went with. It's the gold outline with black fill, 70's style.



I have pet birds and used to work at the Wild Bird Care Centre so "Feather" seemed to fit. And I didn't want it to be too close to an actual Fender copy, so I went lowercase instead of all caps for the model name.

Still trying to figure out whether that was a good call, but either way, what's done is done.

I was trying to straddle the line between referencing the original and making it clear that I'm not trying to pretend it's a Fender neck. The "Ferden" thing is stupid and too close, if you ask me. I wouldn't ask Scott to put that on a neck, it's asking for trouble.

I'd go with a personal touch. My model name was a pun based on the original model name and the look I was targeting, and the brand name actually meant something personal, so it felt like an OK balance point.

[alexpigment]

I was trying to straddle the line between referencing the original and making it clear that I'm not trying to pretend it's a Fender neck. The "Ferden" thing is stupid and too close, if you ask me. I wouldn't ask Scott to put that on a neck, it's asking for trouble.

Honestly, the whole point here is that both you (past tense) and the OP are straddling a line, and your goal is presumably to make the guitar not seem "off" when you look at it rather than create brand confusion. I agree that I wouldn't ask someone else who runs a legitimate business to put a Ferden decal on it. Whether the decal is stupid or not is debatable - I just remember this being a funny thing on the TDPRI because it came up weekly for a period of time. Note that I've never put a custom decal on a guitar or owned one with a non-original decal, but it really doesn't bother me what other people do with their guitars.

[HNB]

I just made up my own brand because it felt weird giving Fender credit for all the work I did or trying to make something look like something it isn't.

[DrQuasar]

Guitar Fetish used to sell a Faker decal but it looks like they don't anymore. They have some kind of funny ones but most look geared more towards fake Gibsons.

[blimpage]

If you’re like me and you want something specific that looks legit, but don’t have the graphic design skills to pull it off yourself, you could go down the route I did:

Pay a logo designer to modify the Fender logo with your wording in a way that still looks nice (for your non-commercial personal use only, of course!) I hired a freelancer on Envato Studio and was stoked with the results:



Get a custom decal printed with that design. I ordered from this store on Etsy and was stoked with those results too! Particularly the gold ink is beautiful



A more expensive route for sure, but worth it to me since I’m fairly picky, and now I’ve got a logo to put on all my future builds!

[DeathJag]

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[blimpage]

GASP! A cat! I love the cat. Awesome cat face!

I have passed on your compliments and she says thank you! …I think???