Maybe someone can help me with this. I’m working on my first compsand, and my first scratch board in about 5 years. You all have been a tremendous help/source of inspiration/wise advisors. I’m thinking about my finish and I want to show my appreciation and respect for the Swaylock’s tribe (hopefully my first attempt will live up to the Sway’s standard). So, my question is thus: Would I be in the wrong or infringing if I applied a Swaylock’s logo on my board? I was messing around in Photoshop for a few minutes and came up with something that would be in line with my intended style for my work in progress. (Kind of a '57 Chevy/Diner Classic thing). I am going for simplicity and clean lines so I came up with this:
I am going to do a test panel. I had origionally intended to print it on rice paper and apply it with resin under my hotcoat, laterally atop the deck. I also thought about cutting out a template and doing a resin tint. Which would be best?
This is, of course, assuming that putting the Swaylock’s name on my board is cool. I don’t want to infringe on any Trademarks, etc. If it is not cool, please let me know.
Very nice… I see the link to the chevy logo. I used a very nice Swaylock logo created by Hicksy for several of my boards. There was a contest a few years back in 2005. A lot of good ones came out.
Yeah, I’ve read the links to the logo contest. I wasn’t here then. Feel free to use mine. I intended it for a longboard, but it would look cool anyway. I have a high resolution copy on my HD. And if ya wanna change the colors I saved the PSD (Photoshop) file with all the layers, so you can go in and change all the shapes and/or colors to match whatever you want (ya gotta have Photoshop though). E-Mail me. I’ll send ya the PSD file (too big to post here, I tried). I use Photoshop 3 CS Pro, but I think it should work with any (hacked) oops, I mean lagit. version of Photoshop.
P.S.: Don’t eat meat. (Except fish, eat all the shark you can find; they owe us.)
I apply the rice paper logos the same way for both PE and epoxy resin. I do it under at least one layer on the lam coat. I place some PE or epoxy under the rice paper, saturate it, squeeze off the bubbes and place the outer layer of fiberglass over it and continue glassing. If I am placing the rice paper over a colored lam coat, I do it directly on the lam coat when it is still tackey and lay at patch of fiberglass over it. I then hotcoat over it after it dries. There are several ways to do.
Hey guys i’d love to do the same on my latest fish project. I never would have dreamed of making a surfboard if not for the fine people of this site. If anyone would care to share a pic that can be printed, i would also be grateful guys.
