Author Topic: Charvel logo or Legra Charvel logo (Read 9383 times)

Woogie · « **on:** June 12, 2007, 05:50:53 PM »

I have some proper charvel decals (not the waterslide ink cr@p ones) and was going to put one on my Legra but what about this (courtesy of Tom)?

Any thoughts and opinions would be great!!

Cheers

Davey · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2007, 05:59:18 PM »

looks nice!

charvel logos... which ones? import or usa?

Woogie · « **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:07:23 PM »

http://www.webcreations-uk.com/images/charvel.gif

Will be gold though

indysmith · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:18:20 PM »

blatantly use todge's!!!! that roxorz

Woogie · « **Reply #4 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:28:28 PM »

Todge's?

38thBeatle · « **Reply #5 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:30:29 PM »

He means Tom.

Woogie · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:33:17 PM »

Nice nickname.

I might go for the Charvel/Legra but I have the charvel ones ready at home.

Do I need to apply lacquer over it?

Philly Q · « **Reply #7 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:38:26 PM »

I think it would be nice if Bob Johnson got some kind of visible credit for building the guitar.

It does look a bit like "Cegra" though (sorry Tom :oops: ). Maybe if the "L" was a bit more vertical and the top of the "E" was extended? Like this, only much less shitee obviously:

_tom_ · « **Reply #8 on:** June 12, 2007, 07:30:34 PM »

Quote from: Philly Q

I think it would be nice if Bob Johnson got some kind of visible credit for building the guitar.

It does look a bit like "Cegra" though (sorry Tom :oops: ). Maybe if the "L" was a bit more vertical and the top of the "E" was extended? Like this, only much less shitee obviously:

Yeah, thats what I thought, I'll have a go at doing it a bit neater in photoshop in a minute :)

about the "todge" nickname, I got it in year 7 because apparently the name tom rogers combined makes todgers, which then got shortened because people couldnt be arsed to say 2 syllables :? :lol:

edit - here it is looking a bit neater.. still a bit messy I guess

Simon D · « **Reply #9 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:49:21 PM »

I'd say go for the Legra one _tom_ has done, I like the look of it, and as Philly says, ensuring Bob gets visible credit is important - if people like what they see, they might put business his way. If you put the Charvel one on, you could lose the 'interesting-ness' of having a custom guitar.

I was in the same situation as you recently, toying with the idea of putting a Jackson decal on the Warmoth Soloist I'm building. In the end, decided to go with a Warmoth logo - give credit where it's due, I reckon. :)

plastercaster · « **Reply #10 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:49:22 PM »

Quote from: _tom_

Quote from: Philly Q
I think it would be nice if Bob Johnson got some kind of visible credit for building the guitar.

It does look a bit like "Cegra" though (sorry Tom :oops: ). Maybe if the "L" was a bit more vertical and the top of the "E" was extended? Like this, only much less shitee obviously:

Yeah, thats what I thought, I'll have a go at doing it a bit neater in photoshop in a minute :)

edit - here it is looking a bit neater.. still a bit messy I guess

I thought the L looked a bit C-ish too - thats much better, I'd go with the Legra/charvel logo

TwilightOdyssey · « **Reply #11 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:51:12 PM »

Since, presumably, Legra is making a profit on these guitars, I would say that's a pretty blatant case of IP infringement. Tread softly here!

Woogie · « **Reply #12 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:54:15 PM »

Where could I get one made??

Antag · « **Reply #13 on:** June 12, 2007, 09:06:15 PM »

Quote from: TwilightOdyssey

Since, presumably, Legra is making a profit on these guitars, I would say that's a pretty blatant case of IP infringement. Tread softly here!

That's kinda what I was thinking too - wasn't there a big Tokai/Fender (or was it Tokai/Gibson?) battle in the early 80s?

Also, making a logo to look a bit like another maker's logo just makes the whole guitar look a cheap knock-off. Far better IMO to have a simple block Legra logo that couldn't be mistaken for anything else or not have a logo at all. JMO, YMMV etc...

Simon D · « **Reply #14 on:** June 12, 2007, 09:19:53 PM »

Quote from: Antag

Quote from: TwilightOdyssey
Since, presumably, Legra is making a profit on these guitars, I would say that's a pretty blatant case of IP infringement. Tread softly here!

That's kinda what I was thinking too - wasn't there a big Tokai/Fender (or was it Tokai/Gibson?) battle in the early 80s?

Also, making a logo to look a bit like another maker's logo just makes the whole guitar look a cheap knock-off. Far better IMO to have a simple block Legra logo that couldn't be mistaken for anything else or not have a logo at all. JMO, YMMV etc...

That point of view did cross my mind as well. I'd certainly come down on the side of putting a Legra logo on the guitar, whether it be this one or a standard one though. Having just had a look at the Legra website, I reckon the standard Legra logo looks pretty good.