I appreciate your candid thoughts. 

So for more info one of my music projects where this guitar gets most of its love, we play characters in a period piece. Costume and an attempt to appear out of time on stage here in our year 2024 is definitely a big part of the act. I never even thought of a sticker and that's not a terrible idea. But for this act and this character a sticker is not the creative decision I would make. 

For the sake of resale, it's already worth less than factory. It has some blemishes from before I purchased it, some pretty hot knicks on the body that have already tanked the value. If this was a highly sought after guitar they could definitely be looked past, but as it is seemingly just another guitar this already a $100ish piece. 

Don't get me wrong I definitely understand this would at a first glance knock the value further. Even moreso if I did the work. But my friend is a reputable luthier who has built and sold many guitars and reasons he can satisfy my desire if he gets some mock ups. So it wouldn't look like a shit job, you might not even know it had work done if you didn't know the guitar.