Dealership decals

For a while now, I've been investigating trying to duplicate some dealership decals that were on my 70D, but they were very deteriorated.

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A few months after this thread, I noticed what was pretty much an exact duplicate of my style in a "Saw It on Ebay" article in Green Magazine. About a month or more after that, I emailed Tyler to ask if he had an image saved from the auction, and he did!!

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It's been quite a while since then, I've been chipping at it slowly, but this weekend I finally just sat down and worked on the image of the decal with Adobe Photoshop. I should have used something that uses vector based imagery for better scaling, but I've only got PS. I basically started from scratch, got it cleaned up. It's not razor sharp quality like I'd like, but I think it works as long as it's not scaled up. After the basic I had fun making some variations of the original. The Turner Implement Co image is for my tractor, though I'm not actually sure if that's the name of the company. The good thing about the set up is I can change the information to whatever I want it to be.

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The original files are actually a bit bigger than the original...but scaling down is much easier and cleaner than scaling up and doesn't lose quality (unlike going the other way)

If anyone wants one of these files, email me and I'll try to shoot it out. I'm still trying to figure out what would be the best image files to use for this, as not everyone has Adobe Photoshop! Just remember that these files actually print much larger than original. Mine measured at about 4 3/4 inches across.

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Brandon
 
Good job! I've always enjoyed looking at the dealer decals that are/were on equipment. Many dealers in the area I can remember chasing down parts etc. from. Those proofs would be tough to tell from an original except for the fact that they are new.
 
Brandon:

This is something I've been thinking about for a long time but i've never seen any repros on these deals. Very well done! Just for haha's, you don't happen to have any information from Kipton Elevator or Midway dealerships that were in Kipton and Monroeville respectively? Also, is it possible to provide dimensions? Nice job....hopefully I'll see you at Lagrange.

Mike
 
Hey Weird Deere. That is awsome. And the other really neat thing is that one of my 1936 unstyled B tractors came from Utica, Nebraska also! If you would please email me the file! Thanks, Dave in NW Missouri
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Great job on the decal. I too have been thinking of sitting down and making my own design. I use autocad, corel draw and paint, and adobe photoshop very fluently. The only question I have is what do you have them printed on and what do you print with? Reason I ask, I printed my show display sign out on high gloss photo paper and it only last a couple of months before it starts fading out.

Here is my display sign. It is 24x36 photo paper put onto a piece of self adhesive foam board.

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Brandon,
That looks nice!! I have reproduced some but they were simpler than that. I would like a copy if you don't mind. I use PS and AI.
Thanks,
Don
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I had our old local dealer sticker on my 51 A. It was all faded and could hardly see it. My cousin is in the signs and graphics buisness so he took pictures of them and tried to redo them. Looks like he was close compared to yours. Thanks for shareing! I will be sending him yours pictures and have him get the right colors in the right spot.
 
I had our old local dealer sticker on my 51 A. It was all faded and could hardly see it. My cousin is in the signs and graphics buisness so he took pictures of them and tried to redo them. Looks like he was close compared to yours. Thanks for shareing! I will be sending him yours pictures and have him get the right colors in the right spot.
 
It's great to see more confirmation of this style. It seems to be surprisingly wide spread, at first I thought it was just the local dealer. Deere must have provided a template?

Thanks for sharing this too, I never thought of doing a left hand and right hand decal, which wouldn't be too hard.

Brandon
 
Is this the ole 4020 Mike?

I haven't gotten any local dealer info, unfortunately. Even the "Turner Implement" is a bit of a best guess, I'm still not COMPLETELY sure that was the name of the dealership in the area at the time. My decals are too far gone to tell.

The decal is 4 3/4 inches across, as long as you shrink it proportionally, it works.

Brandon
 
I'm still trying to figure out the printing angle actually. I'm thinking of going to a local sign man/decal shop, I'd bet they can do it.

I do have some blank water transfer decal paper, but printing that on an inkjet printer might be a waste of time.

For your sign? Hmm...have you tried spraying a clearcoat over it? Might help with the fading? Maybe. I don't know if paint would react to the paper in a strange way.

Brandon
 
Brandon,
Played around with the image a little this morning and it looks pretty good. I don't know of the name of the local dealers back in the day and I might play around with the text some more before I decide on a final layout. OR was the alpha prefix for the local telephone exchange in the 40's & 50's in this area. I'll get the print shop to print me some in a few days.
Thanks for sharing.
Don

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No this is Mike Karney from Wakeman, my brothers (Andy and Stephen) frequent the Lagrange show (I took my '38 D a few years back but have just spectated as of late). Cool, I figured I could size and use the 4 3/4 inches but the more info I have the better. Thanks for all your hard work on this! See ya in September.
 
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