YES - This is a real hot potato in the industry as TO points out.
We get asked often if we will make a guitar with another makers logo on and my answer is always NO
We will make a guitar with NO logo but will not fake someone else's (what a customer choses to do afterwards is up to them)
We are also proud of the guitars that we make and want to label them as Feline, and would hope that people coming to us would want to do that too.
It's interesting what we went through years ago when we were getting established - we used a script type logo back then and constantly had trouble with people saying that we were
trying to look like Fender-
Problem was/is that we have a 6 letter name starting with an F and containing two letter Es and with a tall letter in the middleFeline= Fender ???
So back then I deliberately chose a lower case typeface in a squarer style which seemed to work well on certain guitar types, but not so well on others.
In fact we took quite a pasting in a few reviews and from some players who didn't like the logo. Once our cats-eye logo started to get more well known we got requests to utilise that instead and we rather liked that approach. For some players it was instantly recognisable, which is kinda cool
But for some vintage styled guitars it still wasn't quite right and we went back to using a script logo and to hell with folks who said it looks a bit Fender-esque. In some ways it's similar to Suhr and Pensa guitars in the look , but quite like it. I feel it will evolve a bit more, but for now it is good.
Works on Les Pauls too....
Anyway - baack on subject - I would vote for a Legra logo
Show support for the guy who put a lot of love into making the guitar, and when he is famous you will have an early(ish) example of his work
I do think that the Charvel logo is one of the coolest things ever though!
