Stickers on your guitar

[Smirkster]

NO stickers for me, thanks.

[ye olde fretmonkey]

Originally Posted by claudel

'50s Meyercord

That's nice, I like that

[amp boy]

been thinking of doing a decal themed tele someday.
cover the whole body, not just the front.......bouts too.

[Westerly Sunn]

even bring myself to put one on a case!

[Stefan]

I was very close putting a sticker with a pinupgirl talking on the TELE-phone, on my Tele. I didn´t do it though. It wouldn´t have looked very good...

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by Westerly Sunn

I can´t even bring myself to put one on a case!

I would like to put stickers on my Martin-case but the surfface isn´t smooth enough.

[byrdbrain]

Lots of people search high and low to find the Nudie
and Frankfurt stickers on Clarence White's legendary guitar.
There are several very good copies of this iconic axe.
Here's the original:

[AngelStrummer]

I have a Motley Crue sticker on the back of '52 AVRI (sorry, no pic).

I hated their music, but loved their attitude.

[bowlfreshener]

4 of my 5 Teles have stickers so far. Here are pics of 2 of them:

[bowlfreshener]

Here is my 3rd Tele with sticker enhancement:

The 4th has not been photographed yet.

And 2 of my 3 non-Tele guitars are stickered:

The les paul copy has a couple more on the back as well, but I don't have a pic of it.

[strummin67]

Originally Posted by Turtletwang

I didn't no Nick Nolte played guitar

He's not a kid anymore.

[rand z]

i have some palm trees that are a rubberized plastic meant for shower doors (non permanent that you can peel off and on) on blonde tele with pearl pickguard and twang kings. palm trees look cool and tasteful...

imho.

rand z tropicalsoul.net

[Dan German]

Originally Posted by Westerly Sunn

even bring myself to put one on a case!

Even though I have issues with stickers on a guitar, I cannot will not have a case without them. I think it stems from a long ago argument with a drunk at a rather large and out of hand acoustic folk jam over which of two nearly identical cases was mine. Now there is no question, because I use the most obscure stickers I can lay my hands on.

[Michaell]

I have my initials inlaid in diamonds on the headstock.

about 5 & 1/2 carat weight of nice gems

This is a '59 sunburst strat I picked up for 25K last year.....after inlaying the 7 grand worth of diamonds, they told me I ruined the collectors value!

Its worth hardly anything now.

So I sold it last week for 1500 bucks.

So never inlay any precious gems into the wood on your guitar. Boy did I learn the hard way!

just kidding

seriously

I do have my intials engraved on the truss rod covers of my Gibsons.
Subtle, understated and nice.

[63dot]

i used to put a lot of surf and skate stickers on guitars

too many to mention here, but the pickguards of teles and strats are perfect for stickers, and i avoided putting them on flamed maple or sunburst finishes

i did have my wife paint one guitar of mine, since i like visual stuff on a guitar, and it's in my profile pic, and then she painted a skateboard, and then a lot of skateboards, and now it's what we do for a job

kind of funny how it started with a guitar, so somehow i knew in the end after all these years i would make a living based on guitar :)

[pchilson]

Originally Posted by 63dot

i used to put a lot of surf and skate stickers on guitars

too many to mention here, but the pickguards of teles and strats are perfect for stickers, and i avoided putting them on flamed maple or sunburst finishes

i did have my wife paint one guitar of mine, since i like visual stuff on a guitar, and it's in my profile pic, and then she painted a skateboard, and then a lot of skateboards, and now it's what we do for a job

kind of funny how it started with a guitar, so somehow i knew in the end after all these years i would make a living based on guitar :)

Hey 63dot, its in your profile pic but is too small to get a good gander at. Can you post a larger version of it here so we can see it?

[studio1087]

Stickers on guitars.....not me. I have bought a few that were crazy fun from the start......

[Brian Krashpad]

Originally Posted by Westerly Sunn

even bring myself to put one on a case!

Naw, cases are different. Stickering cases is a good way to identify them. For me that's a necessity, I play in originals bands which means usually 3 bands on a bill, which can in turn mean 10 to 15 guitar/bass cases (or more) all stuck in the same backstage or sidestage area.



The only case I won't sticker is the nice tweed case that my '52 RI came in. But that case usually doesn't go to shows, I transfer the guitar to a different case for the evening when I gig it.

My guitars have no stickers but I did put as decal on one guitar that has an indestructible matte finish anyhow:

[63dot]

Originally Posted by pchilson

Hey 63dot, its in your profile pic but is too small to get a good gander at. Can you post a larger version of it here so we can see it?

sorry, that is kind of small

i have a larger pic on another computer, so i will try and get a good jpeg of it if it's not too big in parameter

actually, this pic is not much better, but does anyone know how to take a much larger file than allowed and put in on this site? is there a way to compress it, and what software would i use? i don't have adobe acrobat, full version

[capt pearl]

Originally Posted by MandyMarie

I used to have a bottle opener on one too! That's awesome! Where did you put it? Mine was a salvage opener from the 40's and I ended up putting it on the upper bout and then having to use a gig bag because I couldn't latch the case! *doh!*

I think you should make them your own...if it's your own just the way it came, then that's great (you've got the feeling we're seeking by muckin' ours up!), but I can never leave well enough alone.



I've got one that's pretty covered in stickers - and it all started because someone smacked an "Indy CD & Vinyl" (the record shop sponsoring the show) sticker on it while we were playing. I knew I'd take it off once I got home (haha!) but then it I didn't and it kind of grew on me. Now it's got one of our bands stickers, a Katy K sticker and some other various stuff slapped on it.

Do what you want and have fun with it!

OMG! I'm in love with yer guitar!

cool.

-capt pearl

[strummin67]

Stickers on my guitars? No. I have several on my acoustic case though most are from traveling on the airlines.

[GuitarJunkie84]

Although I started this thread, I have yet to have a guitar with stickers on it. I like MandyMarie's guitar, and as I said, I have put a metal wall mount bottle opener on my guitar. I started looking for other metal pieces to attach to my guitar, but very small signs or letters are hard as hell to find. Or I'm just bad at looking for them!

[franchelB]

I have a little "Latino Angel" on the "forearm" of my Telecaster. I don't have any stickers on my other guitars. I think the Telecasters just "begs" to have a sticker or 2 put on it.