Do stickers bother you?

[sabasgr68]

In short, yes, they´d bother me. I wouldn´t put one on any guitar. As many have said, if it can be easily removed, I´d go for the guitar if I really like/want it.

[sabasgr68]

I picked up the Taylor Solidbody (SBX?) this morning. One of the stickers came off easily and the only had residue. The postage stamp has been harder to get off, but the parts I've had off don't seem to leave a mark either. So I think I lucked out. These guitars are definitely underrated. I guess they remind me of my Ovation VXTs in that regard. Maybe not my favorite guitar ever, but it's a quality guitar that should be going for more than it does go for.

Maybe I´m wrong - I´ve been wrong sometimes in the past, so this might be one of those times -, but my eyes fail to see any Taylor guitar here, with or without stickers. You sure you picked it up? You know the rule: pics or it didn´t happen...


Just kiddin´, of course. Would love to see some pics of the guitar, though.

HNGD!

[golem]

I picked up the Taylor Solidbody (SBX?) this morning. One of the stickers came off easily and the only had residue. The postage stamp has been harder to get off, but the parts I've had off don't seem to leave a mark either. So I think I lucked out. These guitars are definitely underrated. I guess they remind me of my Ovation VXTs in that regard. Maybe not my favorite guitar ever, but it's a quality guitar that should be going for more than it does go for.

Maybe I´m wrong - I´ve been wrong sometimes in the past, so this might be one of those times -, but my eyes fail to see any Taylor guitar here, with or without stickers. You sure you picked it up? You know the rule: pics or it didn´t happen...


Just kiddin´, of course. Would love to see some pics of the guitar, though.

HNGD!

Sure, I've got the strings off now as I was using Naptha to dissolve the postal stamp, residue from the sticker down the side, and the odd mark hear or there.

[CyFan152]

I don't even notice what my guitar looks like when I'm playing. If has THE SOUND when I'm playing is all that matters. Only when I'm NOT playing does it matter. What's most important to you?

[DonM]

Not for me.

[Stig]

Goo Gone is your friend.

And it doesn't attack the finish? I once had Goo Gone destroy the handles of a Swiss Army Knife!

Yeah, that's the thing. Any product like that is pretty much a plastic solvent. That's why they always tell you to test on an area that won't be seen.

[Gear_Junky]

Most times I wouldn't put a sticker on my guitar, but I did once and I'll tell you why. My b-stock WNO-630 had a cosmetic blemish on the top - it was a finish flaw and a ding. I used black cat paw print stickers to cover it up, just for me. If I was to sell/trade it, I'd point it out to the next person (and you could tell, if you looked, but that won't always be the case). So that would be MY reason to be cautious with a guitar I was buying, especially if the spot with suspected damage/flaw might affect integrity or playability.

[Mossman]

WD40 is supposed to work, though I have no practical experience. Not sure I would want to gain that experience on nitro either.

WD40 DOES work. It's the only thing I use for removing stickers, and it's the only thing WD40 is good for IMO.

[Mossman]

I never cared much for stickers on guitars. I didn't mind them on other people's guitars and I have seen them used to good effect (like what [mention]deeaa[/mention] described. That sounded tasteful... I didn't see any pictures, so I don't know if they're even real, but they sound like they look good ).

But stickers weren't for me, until I got bored with the look of my Jazz Bass (Midnight Wine with a plain w/b/w pickguard) when I was living in Flaggstaff. This was back in the days when you only owned one or two guitars, and we didn't have all kinds of modding options available. I was clueless about where to get pickguards and knobs and hardware and pickups (if you lost a knob, then you just played your guitar with a knob missing, or you replaced it with whatever you could find), so in an attempt to jazz it up, I decided to start putting stickers on it. Nothing cute, or weird, or... interesting, even. Just random, local stuff, randomly applied. It looked like garbage, but I was in a band and nobody cared, or said anything about it, so they stayed on for a couple of years.

By then, I was like 36, and I had moved back to Massachusetts, and I was like: "This looks juvenile, and nobody's going to take me seriously if I show up at an audition with this thing". So I got out the WD40 and took them all off.

Ironically, I never knew how great that finish looked under stage lights until I saw somebody else playing a Strat in the same finish. It was a fine metallic finish that really came alive under bright light. Like [mention]Cyfan4036[/mention] said, I never knew what the bass looked like when I was playing it. Never got to see it when I was on stage... Didn't really matter. It was just at home in my living room, when I wasn't playing it, it looked "meh", and it bothered me.

[Stig]

WD40 is supposed to work, though I have no practical experience. Not sure I would want to gain that experience on nitro either.

WD40 DOES work. It's the only thing I use for removing stickers, and it's the only thing WD40 is good for IMO.

It's good for keeping your rocket from rusting.
I'm not making a penis joke. It was invented for "Water Displacement" and it was the 40th formulation they tried. From Wikipedia:

"WD-40" is abbreviated from the term "Water Displacement, 40th formula", suggesting it was the result of the 40th attempt to create the product.[1] The spray, composed of various hydrocarbons, was originally designed to be used by Convair to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile from rust and corrosion.[6][7] This outer skin also functioned as the outer wall of the missile's paper-thin fuel balloon tanks, which were so fragile that, when empty, they had to be kept inflated with nitrogen to prevent them from collapsing. WD-40 was later found to have many household uses[1] and was made available to consumers in San Diego in 1958.[6]