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260651 Claudio DeLorenzi <claudio@d...> 2016‑12‑09 Re: early stanley boxes
Hi Tom
Do you have the capacity to make those 'slide on' decals that Stanley
applied on tool handles?  I have a few tools with the bluish remnants of
these.  They put them on the sides of plane handles, chisels, drills,  and
so on, like many of the tool makers.  A friend of mine  just reproduced one
of the original Marples decals, to put on his restorations- it was a fairly
expensive undertaking apparently, and they ended up costing about thousand
dollars for 350 of them- about $3 for each decal! (Yikes!)  When he is
finished restoring a tool to his satisfaction, he slides on the decal and
it looks 'factory fresh'.)  I'm just curious to know if new technology
makes this less expensive?  It would be cute, but wouldn't make the tools
work any better, and I know many here would hate this, since some
unscrupulous types might try to sell the tools as 'new old stock' or
something.  I don't know anything about printing, so I thought I'd ask!
Cheers from Waterloo
Claudio

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