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The trick is to cut around the decal in a wavy line and use a brand new scalpel blade at a low dragged angle so you get a smooth-edged cut with no ragged fraying and no obvious straight line on the edge of the decal. You then need quite a few coats of laquer to end up with enough on there to mask the edge of the decal by having the laquer not display an obvious ridge. Wait a long time between adding new laquer layers to allow it to thoroughly dry and clean it off between each one you spray, so there is no dust; take your time, impatience will spoil it. Give the decal a (very light) coat of laquer before you use it to prevent it being damaged by the water. Mask the entire guitar apart from the face of the headstock when spraying, laquer particles will float in the air and land on your guitar otherwise.
I bought one from a Russian Ebay seller before the Ukraine war - PRS USA wouldn't sell me one without shipping the guitar back to them in the USA, even though they had already told me it was a genuine PRS guitar and I'd sent pics of the damaged logo. Their loss... I really didn't want to buy a fake logo, but there was no other sensible choice.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Might be worth firing an email to PRS to ask the question?
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The logo I bought was actually detectable as a fake anyway - the dimensions were slightly off, as if it had been copied from a photo of a guitar rather than scanning a genuine logo - so I don’t think it would pass for making a fake PRS appear genuine, at least to someone familiar enough with the real thing. The guitar itself had already been badly refinished anyway, so it really made no difference to anything to put a slightly dodgy logo on it as well.
I didn’t profit from this, by the way - I later gave the guitar to a friend.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Scuttles off before Blitzkrieg.
No, I just can't be arsed.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1