Personalised markings for items you have made

[Argus]

Did the coin have the date on and visible?

Probably, but I don't remember...... it was almost 30 years ago that I repaired that table. The coin was a little battered and worn at the time and shoved into a gap in a leg-tenon, almost out of sight.

George IV was on the throne 1820 to 1830; prior to that he was Prince Regent, though coins of those years were of his father, George III.

The half-penny (ha-penny) coins differed little in appearance over the years, except for the monarch's head and date.
Old British coins stayed in circulation for decades; I recall ha'pennies when I was a Kid in the 1950s bearing heads of every monarch from Victoria to Elizabeth, though they all disappeared from circulation in 1970.

 

[Just4Fun]

I was just wondering if the date were the reason to include the coin in the table.

 

[Ttrees]

Presuming there's the equivalent of the Dublin mint in the UK,
where you can get free coins if you pay the small postage costs.
Some are very tasty like the Jim Fitzpatrick coins for example.

 

[Jonzjob]

Pyrography pen and my initials. It takes more time to get the pen out than it does to do the initials

Then again I really enjoy doing pyrography

 

[Padster]

My avatar is my sign/logo, it was designed for me by my wife and daughter and they had it made onto two different sizes of branding iron….I use it on larger pieces where it can be placed discretely….before this it was a pyrography pen my initials and two digit year.

Padster

 

[Robbo3]

Branding iron using the Weller WHK30UK Wood Burning Kit

The kit contains a number of tips for various applications.
The plate is one of the tips included in the kit.
I marked out the letters with a felt tip then removed the surrounding material with a Dremel type tool.

 

[JAW911]

I have a brass block which was made for me by a guy in Northampton area. I blacken the logo in a candle flame and tap it a few times onto a name plate I’ve made and then a couple of coats of Osmo Polyx satin.

 

[Henniep]

My symbol is a squirrel. I had a rubber stamp made and mark all my 'creations' with the squirrel, done with normal inking pad ink. The marking on some work I've come accross again, is still visible 10 years on.

 

[Fergie 307]

Always fascinating to find various notes left on clocks and watches by previous repairers. Often very finely scratched into the inside of the case back, or on grandfather and similar clocks, in the back of the dial plate.

 

[TRITON]

Many many moons ago I used to make er... brass pipes, for er... smoking stuff. From a billet of solid brass, all filed into intricate shapes.
Being solid brass, they were pretty much indestructible, so I used the infinity symbol as a makers mark. Sold about 30 or so at Glastonbury.Another dozen or so to people I knew.

I'd bought a No8 metal punch mark to give me the infinite mark, then one fateful day walking on a derelict boat building site on the Clyde , place was all overgrown, the detritus of the business spread around the grounds and I stumbled upon a Large No8 lying slowly rusting into the ground.
A bit like fate the large No8, with the smaller No8 I'd originally bought stamped over it. Giving us a kind of 88.

In Chinese culture, 88 is a symbol of luck and fortune and the single 8 considered the luckiest of numbers. While not my intention, and to be honest I wasn't even aware of this fact, i think it is quite remarkable on how I found completely by chance one punch, and have used it as my makers mark ever since.

I know about the other reference, but my 88 has the large 8, with the smaller 8 fitting into one of the larger circles, so it cannot really be confused with that reference.

 

[Shan]

As I'm mainly marking turned bowls, I burn 9 dots with the middle one centred with a soldering iron. Then join up the dots to make an M.

 

[Roberto Flintofski]

All very interesting ideas, still keen on the lazer though

 

[jim1950]

when an apprentice in the late 1960's I was made to have a name stamp for my tools so when retired and the woodturning disease got me I stated stamping the items
just another bit that escaped the log box

 

[johnwalls26]

http://chalcostamp.co.uk/contacts.html

 

[Shan]

when an apprentice in the late 1960's I was made to have a name stamp for my tools so when retired and the woodturning disease got me I stated stamping the items
just another bit that escaped the log box

Jim, that's a smart looking bowl, what's the wood? How does the stamp work with really hard wood, or does a firm single blow do the trick? Shan

 

[jim1950]

Jim, that's a smart looking bowl, what's the wood? How does the stamp work with really hard wood, or does a firm single blow do the trick? Shan

the wood is Sycamore came my garden a few years ago, the stamp works fine in hardwood just one good blow with a hammer

 

[Argus]

when an apprentice in the late 1960's I was made to have a name stamp for my tools so when retired and the woodturning disease got me I stated stamping the items
just another bit that escaped the log box

An interesting point, Jim.

Many years ago, when Alec Tirant were the ultimate source for carving gear and tools, they had a shop in Theale, near Reading where I lived at the time.

They were old-style specialist suppliers.
You could buy all sorts of stuff there, including un-handled carving tools..... just line 'em up on the counter and choose whichever one you wanted......

Also they would make a name punch to order, as was traditional for old-school journeymen, which I still have, that produces a name impression very much like yours.

It is very hard steel and will easily stamp wood as well as mild steel.

 

[pauljhaigh58]

My daughter bought me a branding iron they make the inscription to what you want

 

[pauljhaigh58]

 

[jim1950]

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like that but I bet that US not UK looking at the plugs