Major board repair/restoration project, need help w/ a logo

General Discussion
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So I’m restoring a classic Roberts (Playa Del Rey) longboard for a friend and the logo/laminate is beyond salvation. My idea is to reproduce the original logo and laminate it onto the board in the original spot. There’s no logo on the bottom.

I tried Stanley’s Surfboard Logo Library but the image doesn’t have enough resolution and I can’t print a decent copy.

So, my questions: Does anyone have a Roberts board with a logo like this (http://www.surfcrazy.com/stanleys/surflogosR/roberts02.gif) that you could take a pic and email it to me?

Does anyone have a relatively high resolution pic of the logo that they could email me?

Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how I could save the laminate without reproducing a new one?

Should I just scrap the whole plan, sand the thing down, patch it, and make it rideable?

I’ve attached pics of the damaged logo and the low-res copy of an intact logo that I want.

Thanks.

Josh


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Take the photo of the decal to a silk screener. They have HUGE libraries of lettering fonts. You should be able to find the lettering, and duplicate the original decal. They should be able to pull it up on computer and print you a one-off.

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Yeah its mostly just a font problem.

Might want to bypass the silkscreeners and investigate

the world of fonts available on your computer already

and the countless font/truetype webpages and their resources.

It would seem the ‘Roberts’ font shouldnt be hard

to find a reasonably close fascimile of with the aid of

your hunting and pecking.

If you find something close, then it just may be a case

of stretching on the computer too and fro to get it real

close. Beyond the font??, the rest of that Stanleys ‘Roberts’ logo can be constructed in a graphics program by anyone with 1 days worth of experience.

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Hi Josh, Take the picture of what you can get off the library and use either Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator to trace it. Just import the image and draw right over it. For lettering, both of these programs have vast font resources. No photo image will really print well; you need a vector-based image which can be scaled up and down without changing the resolution. The tracing can be very time consuming, but the results are worth it. I did a restoration on an old Jack’s LB a few years back and traced over one of Stanley’s photos. The Roberts logo look pretty easy since there’s no graphics other than straight lines. You’ll have to paint the back of the rice paper to get the white background though.

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Joshmosh,

As the guys say, you will almost certainly find a computer font close to that logo. There are thousands of free download fonts, just google “Free Fonts” .

It may be a learning curve, but you can place that photo jpeg in Illustrator in order scale the font accurately.

Measure the original, then drag out the corners of the jpeg to those dims, then fit the font letters.

Use “Acid Free Tissue Paper” from an art store, lightly tack it to a piece of card and run it through a printer. Fix the ink with a whiff of aerosol clear laquer before laminating.

I had not used a screenprinter for my shaper decal for many years…

Josh