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BucketBucket Frets: 7751
Ok, the new green Strat needs a headstock sticker because it's currently blank, and I want it to be in-keeping with the headstock - so it has to be a 70s Fender-style "block logo", like this:


I've got half of it sorted - "With Synchronised Tremolo" is going to say "By MJT, Missouri" and where "Original Contour Body" is, I'll have my name. But I need a good name to replace Fender Stratocaster, I can't really call it a Fender because it isn't one.

I was thinking "Fastercaster" for the second word, but I don't know what to do for the first. I quite like "Verdant" due to the colour... ideally I want it to look reasonably similar, but as @ICBM suggested a while back, putting an actual Fender Strat logo on it is a trifle dishonest.

Open to suggestions!
- "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • JayGeeJayGee Frets: 1260
    Dunno, but if I ever build a Tele bitsa it'd going to be badged as a Froadcaster... :-)
    Don't ask me, I just play the damned thing...
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  • SkippedSkipped Frets: 2371
    Gender Stereotype

    Slender Headmaster

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  • WezVWezV Frets: 16734
    Verdant Candycaster
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  • JayGee;404781" said:
    Dunno, but if I ever build a Tele bitsa it'd going to be badged as a Froadcaster... :-)
    Hahaha!

    It's your guitar man, make it look how you like!

    I like the verdant idea, though. Better than anything I'd come up with.

    Mine will have fiesta funkocaster on it.

    It's going to be red, so makes sense, but it doesn't look or sound quite as nice as "verdant fastercaster".
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  • SkippedSkipped Frets: 2371
    Tender Bat Disaster

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  • vizviz Frets: 10700
    Tender Fat Bastard
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • fretfinderfretfinder Frets: 5053
    edited November 2014
    Greenocaster?

    Unless you're not from Greenock! 
    :)
    250+ positive trading feedbacks: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57830/
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  • Would be good to retain the F from the fender. So: Fucking Awesomecaster
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  • IamnobodyIamnobody Frets: 6906
    Bender Straddlecaster.
    Previously known as stevebrum
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4616
    Kermit The Frog(caster)
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22987
    Skipped said:
    Gender Stereotype

    I quite like that one.  >:D<

    It's tough, I've spent many hours trying to think of suitable words/phrases for headstock decals.

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  • dogloaddogload Frets: 1495
    I think it's hard to find something that you aren't going to cringe about later. 

    Gender Stereotype is good though.
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  • Fencer Sabercaster. If your hobby was fencing.
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • BidleyBidley Frets: 2932
    Shame you're not from the same area as me, you could  have "Fenboy Tractorcaster".
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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11939

    Render Startocaster?



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  • GuitarseGuitarse Frets: 165
    Flabbergaster?
    Never ever bloody anything, ever!
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  • LixartoLixarto Frets: 1618
    Master of Disaster?
    "I can see you for what you are; an idiot barely in control of your own life. And smoking weed doesn't make you cool; it just makes you more of an idiot."
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  • fretmeisterfretmeister Frets: 24431
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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 31621
    Just put the stock one on it, everything else is just childish.

    Yes I know the legal position, but frankly don't care what some giant US corporation thinks about my guitar leaned against my amp in my house 6,000 miles away, they can take care of themselves.

    I've spent a substantial part of my income on Fender gear since 1981, if I happen to want a partscaster to look "proper", logo included then I will, in fact I might even tap 'em up for all the advertising I do by using it. ;)

    One rule for Slash, one rule for all.

    :)


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  • longjawlongjaw Frets: 423

    I've just stuck a decent "Fender" replica on the front of my self built Strats/Teles, got the bairn to write something on the back of the headstock with a thin point marker pen then sprayed a couple of coats of clear lacquer over the top.

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