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Fender decals on not-really-Fender basses
- Thread starter Habilis
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I don't get this "It's ok for personal use" stuff at all. It's trying to mislead people,
either at the performing stage or at the sales stage. It's just a bit foolish and cheap.
either at the performing stage or at the sales stage. It's just a bit foolish and cheap.
12stringbassist said:
I tend to agree. The personal use bit as I explained it would be the letter of the law; that you wouldn't be prosecuted. As soon as you take money you are open to prosecution. Nothing to do with the morality of it. Meanwhile you are open to being persecuted on the Internet by "TB Police"
Nah. No one will do that. It's your friends and acquaintances that will talk behind your back about what a cheeseball you are for swapping the decal on your bass. Which of course is worse.
I'm a living room rocker. I haven't played out in years. So if I put together a parts bass and just for kicks I put a Fender logo on it, who exactly am I misleading on the performing stage? Please answer accurately because you spoke as if you had all the answers.
Hell, every time I step on a stage I hope I'm hopefully misleading a large number of women that I'm less old and boring that I really am. Is that really any less bad than trying to mislead other musicians that you can afford a more expensive bass than you really can?
Are you letting them come to their own conclusion? or are you flat out lying to them?
I would never do it. Oh, wait a minute... Um, I did do it, sort of. I have a 1968 or so Super Reverb from the first year they switched to the silver face design. I modified it so that now "under the hood" it's a blackface Super. I found a guy who makes knockoff blackface nameplates and bought one from him.
The amp did not leave the factory as a blackface amp, but it is one now, both cosmetically and functionally. Am I a bad person?
FWIW, the amp is not and never will be for sale except maybe at an estate sale many (I hope) years from now.
The amp did not leave the factory as a blackface amp, but it is one now, both cosmetically and functionally. Am I a bad person?
FWIW, the amp is not and never will be for sale except maybe at an estate sale many (I hope) years from now.
Anyone who puts a Fender decal on a non-Fender guitar is a poser. If and when that guitar is sold that same person now becomes a counterfeiter. It is just that simple.
I know it's not quite the same thing, but I'm also in the process of acquiring a Burberry plaid Squier, so... that will be flat out lying, won't it?
Turnaround
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Anyone know where I can get a Squier decal for my Fender? I'm not trying to fool anyone - it's just that I like the Squier logo.
Uh-huh......
Uh-huh......
If it's for the purpose of resale, then it's fraud, plain and simple.
On the other hand, if it makes one feel better about things, maybe a little silly, who really cares? I refinished my '67P in the late '70's and to this day, it has no logo. Eventually, I would think, we all get to the point where we care more about our playing than what's on the headstock.
On the other hand, if it makes one feel better about things, maybe a little silly, who really cares? I refinished my '67P in the late '70's and to this day, it has no logo. Eventually, I would think, we all get to the point where we care more about our playing than what's on the headstock.
I'm a living room rocker. I haven't played out in years. So if I put together a parts bass and just for kicks I put a Fender logo on it, who exactly am I misleading on the performing stage? Please answer accurately because you spoke as if you had all the answers.
Why would you put a Fender logo on your non-Fender bass? Seriously. What would drive you to do that??
UGH if people want to do that then let them. who gives a toss. why do people wear gold plated watches, polish their shoes, iron their shirts? its all about peoples personal perception of inherent monetary and aesthetic value. I couldn't care less
