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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: johnsironsanctuary on November 25, 2011, 10:54:46 PM
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I wasn't able to find a good image of this logo, so I restored one. Feel free to use it if you need to.
http://s1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/Old%20Craftsman%20Logo/ (http://s1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/Old%20Craftsman%20Logo/)
Sorry, I had posted the URL for the before photo and not the album.
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Nicely done!
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Wow! Nice job, decal doctor. That poor thing was barely there and you healed it. I saved a copy. Thanks!
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Thanks guys! Testors makes a kit for making water decals on your computer and printer. The kit is worthless, but I can't buy the special paper any other way.
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Now that you know what you're doing, have a go at this one too!
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/lbgradwell/CraftsmanLogo1930s.jpg)
I believe it's just slightly earlier than the one you already fixed...
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Geez LG, I'm not sure that a real emergency room can save that one. What I did with the other one is cut and paste parts until it was close and then used the pen and eyedropper to replace pixels one at a time. Can you find a better one some where?
I spent a few minutes searching and found this site;
http://wiki.vintagemachinery.org/Decals.ashx#Craftsman_9 (http://wiki.vintagemachinery.org/Decals.ashx#Craftsman_9)
The one that you are after is not there. I found the other one in an ebay ad. I need one that has at least part of it with the right color.
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Ah, no matter. I thought you might have had some magical software that would fix it at the touch of a button; didn't realize it took real work!
I don't need that logo, just figured it needed restoring if it was easily done...
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I'm guessing it took quite a while to restore. Those photo fixing programs have some amazing capabilities but from what I have seen, the learning curve is very steep.
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Part of what complicates it on those, is, they are applied over wrinkle paint. The texture isn't in the decal itself, but it shows through. To make a template for a new decal you have to deal with getting rid of the wrinkle texture, and the resulting fuzzy outlines :(
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OK, I took up the challenge. I couldn't do much for the outer ring, but I did patch it up a bit.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/Old%20Craftsman%20Logo/OlderCraftsman.jpg)
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Wow! Well done!
Thanks!