Makers marks

[Geoff Keyes 521]

I'm thinking that as a resource for current makers and for collectors that a pinned catalog of known makers marks (with pics) would be useful. Anyone else.

 

Geoff

[Richard van Dijk 202]

Good idea here is mine, stylised RvD then flipped around.

 

Richard

[Clifford Brewer 359]

Sounds like a good idea to me too....

[Dan Scott 0]

I like the idea. Mine is a stick-figure raven. I almost always do mine in wood, or in soft metals, rarely in the steel on the blade. This picture is pretty bad, but you get the idea.

 

 

-Dan

[justin carnecchia 67]

I have a stamp, just "CARNECCHIA" in block letters but I haven't been able to get a clean strike on it yet. It always comes out uneven/unreadable and I wind up grinding it out. I tried making a jig/holder but it didn't help much. I know they make a press/holder for this purpose but it is fairly expensive. Does any one have any suggestions? -Justin

[Geoff Keyes 521]

Two things that I've used with some success. One is a cheap arbor press. Build a holder for your stamp that fits the end of the post. Then you can position it where you want and smack the post with a hammer. So long as you hold onto everything, you can get multiple hits if you need them.

 

The second is a small jack press in a frame.

 

The problem I have with both of them is this. If you hot stamp, then you have a big depressed area with the stamp in it, and I don't like the look. If you cold stamp (after finishing, say) then you risk bending the blade and marking up both sides, which then have to be fixed.

 

Geoff

[Karl B. Andersen 17]

Edited November 16, 2012 by Karl B. Andersen

[Brian Madigan 17]

It could go under "Old Work" next to "Library" and all that.

[Alan Longmire 2,746]

Not a bad idea at all. When I have time it can be its own stand-alone subforum. I see the main "show us your mark" thread and another for mystery marks in need of identification.

 

Thanks, Geoff!

[Alan Longmire 2,746]

Done.

 

Now to find time to post my own...

[Orien M 4]

Here's mine...I designed it to be a monogram, representing my initials (OM). A whole bunch of people, including my wife, have told me it looks like a bat, though... :lol:/>

 

[peter johnsson 147]

Here is the one I use on reconstructions, replicas and historically inspired stuff:

[Pete Dirksen 0]

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My stamp is really simple. If I remember correctly its a germanic rune for "P". I just think its a cool symbol.

 

And I can electroetch it also.

Edited November 20, 2012 by Pete Dirksen

[shane wink 0]

Here is my new mark. Before this one I had just chiseled my initials but it was ugly so I stopped.

 

[Myles Mulkey 0]

Here's my mark. The only picture I have of it is it hiding in some knotwork, since I haven't used it on any metals yet. It's the tvimadur symbol/bindrune. I thought it was a fitting way of incorporating my initials (MM).

 

Edited December 23, 2012 by Myles Mulkey

[Dave Stephens 424]

Still looking for mine . . .

 

I had an idea for one a while ago, but it didn't feel quite right.

[Jake Powning 29]

Here's mine, a JP. In this case over a mammen style dragon, sometimes I add it in runes as well depending on the piece.

Edited January 8, 2013 by Jake Powning

[Doug Ward 1]

Still waiting on my stamp :angry:/>

Here it is on my boot B)/>

[Stephen Stumbo 46]

Here's mine. Eventually I'd like to get a logo to go with EagleEyeForge, and have a stamp made, but for now I'm sticking with a 3 line S chiseled in by hand, it's worked good everytime so long as I remember the difference in S and Z (Yeah, I've done it).

 

 

[jpadilla 3]

I've been thinking about a maker's mark for a few years now. Oriental theme, scroll, or just my initials, geometric shapes. I just can't make up my mind. My goal this year is to come up with a mark and hopefully in the next month. Jesse

[Jarrod 'Jay' 0]

Heres mine, it would be placed on the handle or tang of the item to be marked, and where convinient my name and year of creation would be placed on the ricasso or tang/handle. I was always intrested in having a more ystic theme for my forge.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Jarrod 'Jay'

[Jarrod 'Jay' 0]

removed my double post

Edited January 26, 2013 by Jarrod 'Jay'

[Nate Bocker 1]

This is the makers Mark I came up with this summer. It is my initials, and pays tribute to my heritage. I "borrowed" the Ukrainian national symbol, since my great grandfather was a Cossack from Zaporizia, Ukraine (as far as we've been able to trace). There is a lot of history behind the symbol, and it brought a lot of perspective to my family's history, while researching it.

[Robert Burns 109]

Here is my new logo design ordering the stencils tonight.

[Mike Ruslander 0]