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Geoff Keyes
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Here is my Mark

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If you can't muscle it, think your way around it.

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Mongrel Knives out of Florida. No its not a frowning face its a Golden lab with little circles as its running feet like the Roadrunner and coyote.

 

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The problem with a lot of makers marks is the absence of a name. When someone finds a really cool knife in their dads attic, they're gonna want to search and find more about it on the Internet, If only to find out how much it's worth.

........agree 100% , many of my orders stem from the name and home-town makers marks stamped or etched on my blades...........

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I went back and looked at my mark and realized that while it made sense to me, it might not to anyone else. So I redid it. I still haven't figured out a way to work my name into it, though. Black is the edtched part, white would be the surface of the blade. It would be about an inch across.

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I went back and looked at my mark and realized that while it made sense to me, it might not to anyone else. So I redid it. I still haven't figured out a way to work my name into it, though. Black is the edtched part, white would be the surface of the blade. It would be about an inch across.

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Well my mark has always been 'MH' filed into the spine in the center of a vine pattern, the same one for 17 years, then I started 'custom' knives, these had an additional 'Ikisu' etched on the blade, to take the mickey out of a frenchman who ordered a folder 'just like camels' "La Guiolle" (french for 'the knife') ikisu is Swahili, meaning 'the knife' this only goes on blades made to a customers specific design not my run o' the mill knives...

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Until I come up with something better, I'm just using my initials in cursive. image.jpgimage.jpg

Trying to make each knife just a little better than the last

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Here's my maker's mark, no stamp (yet) so I burn or chip carve it into the wood as of right now.
It actually is not inspired by runes, at the time I was really thinking about maker's marks, but I didn't like any I thought of. When this just by chance showed up on just a simple self handled knife I made... pretty freaky, I thought it was cool though, so I ran with it.

Here it is burnt onto the handle of a dagger I made.
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“If you trust in yourself. . . believe in your dreams. . . and follow your star. . . you will still get beaten by the people who have spent their time working hard and learning things, the people who weren't so lazy.” ~ Terry Pratchett

 

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Well as my works are labeled Seven Points Blade works and my Initials are JW I have found quite the nice mark for me in the runic alphabet ive found this

 

1_12.gif1_08.gif I think it works great its both my initials in runes and the S&P of Seven Points

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http://bearclawknives.com/ my mentor and his friends once told me there os no problem that cant be solved with a fine cigar and a pot of coffee

you know some people just need a sympathetic pat.....on the head........with sledge hammer

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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... laugh.gif/>

 

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Yes, indeed your mark looks a littlebit like a bat...no doubt!

 

Just be careful not to get into trouble with a well-known German knife brand, which keeps the bat indeed as mark for their knives (***just kidding concerning the trouble***) ;-)

 

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PS: For your information - the knife manufactory I meant is Nesmuk - nesmuk.de/en

 

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This is absolutely a good idea. This is about as good of a picture of my mark as I can find. I hot-stamp my mark into my knife blades as shown. The knife shown is a simple hunter type with a full tang. The blade is hand forged from 5160 coil spring from a train car.PC220006.JPG

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Thought I'd just put mine up. It's not too original but it looks nice and simple. I kinda have named myself Wildcat Knives. The back story is my family had only 1 cat when we moved out to Bastrop a few years back. Well, a feral cat had some kittens in the hay barn, and because my family rescues anything within a 5 mile radius, we took them in (shots, spayed, neutered etc). So now I cringe whenever I tell people we have 5 cats. I thought it'd make a great story when people ask me about the logo.

 

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CH.jpg Lucked out and am getting a stamping die laser engraved within the next few weeks. This is the test version the engraver did, reversed reverse.

Trying to make each knife just a little better than the last

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Up until this last weekend, I was just engraving my logo, but shaky hands (runs in the family) usually made me have to re-do it, so I made my own logo stamp, and used it for the first time! pretty impressed with the stamp, but got a double logo in the blade (doesn't bother me all that much).

It is a bit of a twist on the runes for fire (triangle) Iron (arrow) and sulfur ("T" shape with circles on the ends).

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Beginner knife maker looking to learn more and grow in the art!

 

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