"restoring" silkscreened / painted logos
 

Is there any effective way to restore a worn or faded painted (silk screened?) logos?

The only thing I can think of is employing a Sharpie type marker and a steady hand.

Thanks.

Marker or paint. I'd guess paint would be better.

I'm not that steady- as evidenced by my feeble attempt at lug lining.

I covered a bunch of my screened logos with clear nail polish. Just a little more protection.

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paint, or a really fine-tipped paint marker AND a really steady hand...practice on things that don't matter.
just to put a fine point on this: most of examples shown were probably not screen printed (you can screen print on curved surfaces but it's limited)but rather pad-printed using a machine and process called "tampo". The ink they'd use is more like a super-durable paint but paint-remover will take it off.
back in earlier times there were stencil-applied graphics on frame tubes when the builder didn't want to have decals (transfers) made, plus one-off-hand-painted-by-signpainters graphics, too.

I've got some very fine tipped paint pens I got at the craft store, I'll practice with them and give it a go. If I achieve "6 foot away" quality, I'll probably be happy.

I just sprung for some what the seller called, "rescue decals", to use on my Record C crankset I am currently polishing up. Maybe purists would not approve, but they weren't the ones who worked for hours to bring back to life the beat up crankset and get their hands dirty..... so I'm not minding at all, using the decal short cut solution....

I hope this thread goes somewhere and helps me figure out how to reproduce the silk screened Legnano art on my Legnano...

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I have toyed with the idea of trying to repro some by pad printing. It's way outta my wheelhouse but it would be a fun thing to be able to do. I have found a few folks on youtube that have homebrewed some pad printing rigs and the pads are readily available. That is about as far as I got. There is still the question for me of creating the image and sourcing the ink. IMO, would be worthwhile for the often used campy and Shimano logos. Anyone know anything about pad printing that could add to my (limited) knowledge?