Fading Jerry Freeman Tweaked Logos?

[norseman]

I have two of Jerry’s fine tweaked whistles with the clear logo sticker, one Shaw and one Generation. The printing and logo on both of the stickers have faded. The one on the Shaw is almost completely gone, and the sticker on the Generation is a little over half gone. I haven’t done anything like expose them to sunlight. They’re either just sitting on my desk or on a carrying case.

Anyone else seeing this?

Bob

[Jerry_Freeman]

Hi, Bob.

Really?

I’ll call the printer who supplies my stickers right away. It’s a company that specializes in stickers, so I’m very surprised. Has anyone else noticed this?

(I distinctly remember that I did NOT check the box for the special disappearing ink feature when I placed the order for the stickers.)

Best wishes,
Jerry

[fiddlinviolinin]

o00o0o0oh, and I thought I was just crazy! =P

Happened to my tweaked Generation as well! By the way, they rock =]

Cheers,
Armand

[Jerry_Freeman]

Aaaaargh!

You’d think they would have worked this sort of thing out after about the 100 millionth sticker they’ve printed, now wouldn’t you?

Thanks for letting me know about it. I’ll put our best people on it.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[norseman]

Jerry, maybe a dumb question - is the printing on the stickers on the inside (sticky) part, or the outside? If it’s on the inside, maybe there’s some kind of reaction with the metal of the whistles.

Bob

[Jerry_Freeman]

I thought of that, too. Generations are lacquered, so there’s no contact with metal on them. The ink’s on the outside of the sticker, though. Strange. Like I said, you’d think they would have got something like that pretty well nailed down by now.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[Jeferson]

Jerry,

The day you start offering tweaked stickers will be the day we know you’ve gone over the edge.

Jef

[DanTheWhistleMan]

Hi Jerry,

This also happened to my whistles (Shaw, Gen). I remember actually being able to rubb it off with my hands if I tried. I was thinking it might be better to have the print on the inside, as to protect it. The ink has stayed on one of the whistles which I play far less than the other one, on which the ink has disapeared.

Regards,
Daniel

[Darwin]

Oops. I just discovered this thread. Sorry to have PMed you about it, Jerry.

It seems that regular finger oil (due to burritos, cheese, peanuts, etc.) is enough to cause it to rub off. Perhaps the label company didn’t realize that the stickers might be subject to a lot of handling?

[Jennie]

Mine’s gone too. I was sorry to see it go! Such an engaging little creature. The sticker itself is still firmly attached, though.

Time to start engraving your logo…
Jennie

[Nanohedron]

A “Jerry Freeman Tweaked” metal stamp, complete with Mouse! But where would you get one?

[Jerry_Freeman]

The metal stamp idea has merit, but there are technical problems.

I’ve trained Mouse to attach the labels (had to scrap quite a few until he figured out how to keep from getting fur stuck to them). However, he can’t swing a hammer hard enough to metal-stamp a logo. In fact, on a good day, he’s lucky if he can even get a hammer to budge.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[Bloomfield]

Ha. You know what that just reminded me of, Jerry?

@Bloomfield

I remember Ralph.

I first heard about Ralph from the elves. They had mixed feeling about Ralph at first. He was a stranger, and the elves had not yet seen his sterling character. But mixed feelings quickly turned into mixed drinks, and spirits in Jerry’s night-workshop rose. Ralph soon became a valued member of the night-time activities, although Ralph had taken the Pledge and never touched a drop.

Perhaps it is true that opposites attract. In the company of Ralph, the elves (and Jerry) achieved some of their most celebrated tweaking successes. It was during Ralph’s time that Jerrytones saw a major production boost, and it was Ralph who helped Jerry get a discount on laminate. It was Ralph who felt that peanut-butter-flavored fipple plugs would be a great idea—a project that sadly he could not see through to completion. Again it was Ralph who suggested the oblique angle on the tetrahedric reverberator insert for the Shaw tweaks. In his quiet, and unassuming, almost mousy manner, Ralph supplied useful and constructive input. He complemented the elves and their efficient and clean execution of tweaks with a spark of creative genius.

Ralph’s life was not without grief, as all earthly existance is shot through with sadness. The threads of irrascibility that could be found among the woof and wrap of his productive life were evident to those who knew him well. But those mere threads were not the source of their grief: It was the fact that Ralph’s nature was often misunderstood that caused his friends and family grief. I myself almost called him a rat once, causing perhaps the gravest moment of hardship—the moment of truth in the desert----when, like a man, Ralph remained firm and refused the consoling libation offered him by the sympathetic elves. It hurt him to be seen as greedy and extortionist, although Ralph himself, in lighter moments, would be the first to joke about his love for sunflower seeds.

That’s how we will remember him: The joy and glee, the unbounded natural energy and resourcefulness, the delighted nibbling at the seeds: life, hope, and accomplishement.

We all remember Ralph.

Farewell to Ralph II

[Jerry_Freeman]

Awww …

Best wishes,
Jerry

[Wombat]

I haven’t checked all my Jerry-tweaked whistles but those I have checked showed no signs of fading. If Darwin is right, I guess this is proof that I have a much healthier diet than American whistlers.

Even if the logos do fade, I somehow don’t think I’m going to have a problem figuring out which of my Gens are tweaked and which untweaked.

[norseman]

I hadn’t replied to Darwin’s post yet, but since you mentioned his, I will now.

The fading on my Jerry whistles had nothing to do with excessive touching of the logo sticker (mouse fetish? ) I don’t normally touch that part of the whistle when I play them. There’s some patina around the tone holes and where my thumbs rest on my Jerration, but nothing anywhere else.

Bob

[Darwin]

@norseman

I hadn’t replied to Darwin’s post yet, but since you mentioned his, I will now.

The fading on my Jerry whistles had nothing to do with excessive touching of the logo sticker (mouse fetish? ) I don’t normally touch that part of the whistle when I play them. There’s some patina around the tone holes and where my thumbs rest on my Jerration, but nothing anywhere else.

Much as I like mice…

I don’t touch that area while playing, either, but I always swab out a whistle after playing it–even if I may just be setting it down for a half hour or so. At the same time, I often wipe it down, either just with my bare hands, or maybe on my T-shirt, to sort of desmudge it.

Since mine is nickel, and relatively new, it hasn’t yet gotten its first rubdown with Wright’s brass polish.

The logo stickers are quite slick, which is why I guessed that the ink was just rubbing off. It’ll be interesting if it turns out that the ink is fading due to exposure to light. That should be easy to test with a new sticker–just put it somewhere that gets a lot of direct sunlight.

There was a time when I would have been more sceptical about a black ink fading, but who knows what miracles can be performed by modern science?

[Cayden1]

Mine has been standing unused in a vase for several months, the logo has faded and more so on the one side, indicating light can be a factor.

[vomitbunny]

Mine too. And it’s next to a window. More on the side the light shines on.

[Jerry_Freeman]

This is very helpful.

I’ll be talking to someone at the sticker company today, and I’ll direct them to this thread.

Best wishes,
Jerry