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Where Can I Find Team Logo Conchos?

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I am hoping to make another belt for my wife who is a big University of Kentucky basketball fan. I have seen some examples with UK conchos on them but cannot find a source for the conchos. Any help would be appreciated!!!!

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University logos are copywrited and protected and thus hard to find. The seller has to be licensed by the school to sell school logos. I ran into this because everyone around here wants University of Georgia emblems, bulldawgs, etc. Most concho manufacturers won't pay the licensing fee and be bothered with all the tracking paperwork on sales. They are available, I see them once in a while but then you also have to be careful about selling a product or making a product with a licensed emblem on it. Same with carving, you can carve school logos, but you are supposed to get either a license or authorization from the copywrite holder, a license they'll sell you (high and has requirements) but they probably will not give you authorization.

Just my experience with it.

Chief

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Chief, I understand the copyright issue, and would steer clear if I was making belts for profit. I'm not too worried about making a one of a kind belt for my wife, though. It's too bad that there is not a place to buy such things where you pay the royalty up front so to speak. Heck, you can find similar items from big business like Disney, Ford, Chevy, and the like everywhere you look!

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Chief, I understand the copyright issue, and would steer clear if I was making belts for profit. I'm not too worried about making a one of a kind belt for my wife, though. It's too bad that there is not a place to buy such things where you pay the royalty up front so to speak. Heck, you can find similar items from big business like Disney, Ford, Chevy, and the like everywhere you look!

I understand, the problem is the guy who sells you the concho has to have made a deal with the school or each individual school and the schools aren't willing to do that for most anyone except large scale manufacturers and he has to have paid the royalties on the conchos. Most concho distributors can't get through the enormous red tape and requirements to even start a deal with a particular school. Most schools also retain approval rights so that you couldn't buy their conchos and then put them on say whips and paddles for the adult industry (just an example), that means getting your goods approved, which a reseller (concho distributor for example) can't provide samples for approval because he's simply reselling the school's emblem. I've did exhaustive searches for concho's for UGA, and although I finally found some that I used to make a belt for a relative, I had to buy them "under the table". It's evident they aren't readily available by searching the internet for them. Keep in mind, Ford and Chevy welcome the advertisement, schools have no such motive. One way to get around it is to buy a belt with the respective concho on it, hope that they are screw in's and use those. There are sites with belts, etc for sale using University Team Logo's but not the conchos themselves. That's what I did, I found a guy at a show that had belts with UGA conchos, checked them, bought it and took the conchos off. That's pretty expensive though.

Chief

Edited by Chief31794

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lowe's sells drawer pulls with university logos via special order. might check with them. they're about the same size/shape as conchos so you may be able to adapt them for your needs.

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Do a google seach for this Keychains with Kentucky university logos maybe you can think of someway to make one work;

I am a Kentucky fan also Go Cats

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Thanks for the ideas. I have already looked at various pendants, but haven't found the one I'm looking for. Still, it seems like that will be my best bet for blinging a belt with some UK insignias.

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go to lowe's and look at the special order drawer pulls. they're probably as close as you're gonna get to actual conchos with your school logo on them.

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Thanks LTC!

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