Quoted from RobertWinter:I bought my Kiss Pro NIB and there was sticky glue on the bare wood around the edges of the decals. It's almost like they applied adhesive to the wood and then applied artwork that did NOT have adhesive on the back.
Luckily all of my bubbling was minimal and near the edges so I was able to work them out. I was also able to clean off all the glue residue around the edges.
But yes, Kiss seems to have had a different decal application process than other Sterns. I too have not experienced this issue on any other Stern before or since.
To the OP, replace the decals. I contacted Stern and the decals are available. Contact your distributor for pricing.
Something about kiss cabinet decals was 'different'. You could very well be correct that the decals Stern got didn't have adhesive and they had to add adhesive it to the cabinet first. My friend had a premium that also had the sticky edges and the decal application was terrible.
Rob