signing your work

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:36:03 GMT, "Steven Bliss" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
>it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

I use a Universal 25-watt CO2 laser to burn in the name, date, and
other pertinant information. If you don't have one, just check with
your neighbor. It's a common household appliance. Borrow his. ;-)

It will also do half-tone pictures. I put them inside the drawers of
spice racks to keep out (scare) all the bugs. ;-)

Or - a bit more seriously, you could have a bunch of them made up in
1/16 or 2/32 maple, with a standard diameter of the size of a forstner
bit of your choice, ghen glue it in each time. Works for me. Where?
Well, a lot of trophy engravers and sign makers have them, and they'd
do you up a quantity real cheap.

I'm lucky, I just happen to have a laser cutter for my urn and casket
business.

Tony

Sun, Dec 14, 2003, 3:36pm (EST+5) [email protected] (Steven=A0Bliss)
asks:
Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you
do it. <snip>

With the banks, I've taken to gluing a business card inside, on
top.

JOAT
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as well dance.
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Some tunes I like.
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Some stuff I sign with a sharpie in a out of the way place. I also
make small name tags of brass and attach them to special pieces.

I use a small piece of brass and polish one side and cover the other
side with some duct tape. I then sign it with a sharpie making sure
the ink goes on evenly. I then dump it into some PC board etchant (you
can get a bottle at Radio Shack) for several minutes.

The etchant will eat away whatever isn't inked. You end up with a nice
engraved name plate that can be attached to a project.


>Steven Bliss wrote:
>> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do
>> you do it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

good morning steve and lauri.
on all my cabinets,dressers,and couch's
inside front bottom, i crave out about half inch high two inch's across
and quarter
inch in , and with ingraver i sign my signature, and glue it in, than i
put
two lil cabinet doors with tiny winy nobs (handels) and a ity bity lock
lach.

people love to call me and laugh about the lil cabinet doors, they trip
on the fact that
they open/close just like any other cabinet, yes i know. I am weird.

but the ingraver works really cool with
your sig, or a flower design, anything
really, well hope it helped.

I use a burn-in stamp that was given to me by a customer and I also epoxy a
penny from the current year into a shallow hole of the proper diameter/depth,
thereby dating it also. Nice touch that most people seem to appreciate.

Steven Bliss wrote:

> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
> it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?
>
> --
> Steve & Lauri Bliss
> San Antonio, Texas

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Steven Bliss wrote:
> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
> it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

I put 1st initial and last name then year, type of wood and short
pertinent description if needed, in soft pencil under shellac on the
bottom. Didn't used to, but got lots of requests/demands.
Dave in Fairfax
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Steven Bliss <[email protected]> wrote:
: Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
: it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

: --
: Steve & Lauri Bliss
: San Antonio, Texas


I take a small V shaped chisel and carve in a backstaff, my first
initial and last name, and the last two numbers of the year.

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Juergen Hannappel <[email protected]> wrote:
: Gregg Germain <[email protected]> writes:

: [...]

:> I take a small V shaped chisel and carve in a backstaff, my first
:> initial and last name, and the last two numbers of the year.
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

: So you create a year 2100 problem for the users of your works?

No. No more so than '01 or '02 problems.



--- Gregg
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If you are really interested in this, check out:

http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_group.cfm?&catid=71&objectgroup_id=157&segment_id=4

Rockler has a number of custom branding irons (with your name) sets. They
also have a punch-stamping set:

http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?&catid=71&objectgroup_id=157&offerings_id=10601





"Steven Bliss" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Dr%[email protected]...
> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you
do
> it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?
>
> --
> Steve & Lauri Bliss
> San Antonio, Texas
>
>

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:56:47 -0800, "JackD" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Yeah, but can you buy 1909 flavored epoxy?

Yes - they still make it. Croid. It'll stick a penny in a hole, and
it's in period for 1909.

I forget exactly what's in it, but it's one of the first recipes for
cold-plasticised hide glue in a tube. Good adhesive for sticking the
leather wrapping back on old optical instruments, as hot hide glue
tends to chill when it hits the brass tube.

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:40:42 GMT, Scott Cramer
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Do you wear breathing protection when using the woodburning iron? I
>mean, isn't there a danger of smoke inhalation?

(tom wonders what the onomatopoeiac is for a lung scorching soul toke
on a zigzagged bone that came from a poorly cleaned lid of seed
encrusted home grown circa nineteen seventy five and decides it must
be - "fffffffffffffffffff" - although this does not give you the
flavor of the added acoustic pyrotechnics provided by the occasional
exploding seed)

Nah, gringo. (ffffffffffffffff) When I was searchin for the "Santa
Claus and His Old Lady Commune" back in the day (ffffffffffffff) I
did so much smoke inhalation (fffffffffffffff) that I reached life
time toxicity levels (ffffffffffffff) so it's all free - now
(fffffffffffff - pop!)



Regards, Tom
Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania 19428
http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson

"stoutman" <.@.> wrote in message news:<Zk3Db.49072$8y1.196975@attbi_s52>...
> That penny idea is neat. I might steal that idea and make it my own. :)
>

Not sure how that helps. I can go buy a Lincoln penny back to 1909 if I want.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:36:38 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I'll look at calligraphy pens the next time I'm in some place that sells
>artsy stuff though.

These are double-ended (wide and narrow) chisel tips, pretty Western
in style. For timber framing I also use Japanese "kindergarten"
brush-calligraphy pens, with a long flexible fibre-tip. I guess I
ought to use a real brush and a sumitsubo, but there are limits...

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And if anyone is interested, Lee Valley Tools sells a few models of branding
irons.

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=43462&category=1,43456&ccurrency=1&SID=

"T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Sun, Dec 14, 2003, 3:36pm (EST+5) [email protected] (Steven Bliss)
asks:
Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you
do it. <snip>

Jim K wrote:

> The etchant will eat away whatever isn't inked. You end up with a nice
> engraved name plate that can be attached to a project.

No, Jim, you end up with a nice *etched* name plate. :)

This works great for dog ID tags too, incidentally. Engraving doesn't go
deep enough to hold up well over time, so I etch the phone number in sharp
relief.

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in article Dr%[email protected], Steven Bliss at
[email protected] wrote on 12/14/03 7:36 AM:

> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
> it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?
I find a place to put in a $2 bill. I date the bill and sign it. Hope it is
never found because it is usually in a place that will only be found while
dismantling the piece! I sort of think of the If These Walls Could Talk TV
show.
Bruce

On 15 Dec 2003, Tom Watson spake unto rec.woodworking:

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:36:03 GMT, "Steven Bliss" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do
>>you do it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?
>
>
> I use wood burning iron that contains its own heat element. It works
> fine and I think it cost less than $100.00.

Do you wear breathing protection when using the woodburning iron? I
mean, isn't there a danger of smoke inhalation? I would think that the
risk of a spark would be there as well... I trust you sign your work well
away from your DC system.

Wishing you an exceptionally safe holiday season,

Scott

On 15 Dec 2003, Tom Watson spake unto rec.woodworking:

> Nah, gringo. (ffffffffffffffff) When I was searchin for the "Santa
> Claus and His Old Lady Commune" back in the day (ffffffffffffff) I
> did so much smoke inhalation (fffffffffffffff) that I reached life
> time toxicity levels (ffffffffffffff) so it's all free - now
> (fffffffffffff - pop!)

Good sh*t, man. I miss those days too. I think.

Too bad we can't say "Dave's not here," and mean it, too.

Speaking of which, how's that remake of 'Excitable Boy' coming along?

That penny idea is neat. I might steal that idea and make it my own. :)



"<<<___ Bob ___>>>" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I use a burn-in stamp that was given to me by a customer and I also epoxy
a
> penny from the current year into a shallow hole of the proper
diameter/depth,
> thereby dating it also. Nice touch that most people seem to appreciate.
>
> Steven Bliss wrote:
>
> > Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you
do
> > it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?
> >
> > --
> > Steve & Lauri Bliss
> > San Antonio, Texas
>
> --
> I AM NOT PARANOID .. .. .. but EVERYONE thinks I am !! !! !!
>
> <<<__ Bob __>>>
>
>

Steven Bliss wrote:
> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do
> you do it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

My initials and the date, in pencil, somewhere not easily seen. If I don't
forget. ;-)

It's nice to see my skills improving over time. My daughter helped me build
a drawer for my computer table before the ww bug bit me. I think I had an
electric drill, but that was it for power tools. 1996 or so. The drawer
was 4 butt joints held together with screws. I can see now the handsaw cuts
weren't close to perfect in any of the three dimensions. And the hardboard
bottom was just screwed to the bottom.

The drawer isn't on my computer desk anymore. I got tired of banging my
knee on it. But it's hanging on the wall, the container for all my shop vac
nozzles & connectors. It still works, and it reminds me of how far I've
come in ww skills, AND how my now 16 year old daughter has helped me a lot
over the years. <g> The only time two sawdust-creating tools have been
used at the same time in my shop was 11-29-03, when I used the bandsaw and
she the scrollsaw. (See "Yesterday's Fun" of 11-30-03.)

Yeah, I try to sign & date everything. My dado joints stopped sucking when
the DeWalt 621 replaced the 1/4" Craftsman in the router table. ;-)

-- Mark

"Larry Bud" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "stoutman" <.@.> wrote in message
news:<Zk3Db.49072$8y1.196975@attbi_s52>...
> > That penny idea is neat. I might steal that idea and make it my own.
:)
> >
>
> Not sure how that helps. I can go buy a Lincoln penny back to 1909 if I
want.

Yeah, but can you buy 1909 flavored epoxy?

-Jack

Bruce Farley wrote:

> I find a place to put in a $2 bill. I date the bill and sign it. Hope it
> is never found because it is usually in a place that will only be found
> while dismantling the piece! I sort of think of the If These Walls Could
> Talk TV show.

Betcha I can build anything you'd like $2 cheaper than you can. :)

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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:36:03 GMT, "Steven Bliss" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
>it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?


I use wood burning iron that contains its own heat element. It works
fine and I think it cost less than $100.00.


Regards, Tom
Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania 19428
http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:39:08 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm going to have to come up with a different plan now that shellac is my
>default finish. Alcohol eats Sharpie ink.

I use my usual cheap Japanese calligraphy pens - Zig or Sakura brand.
Pigment inks, archivally stable.

For dark items (often oil-blackened steel), I also use the silver ink
pens, but get the ones with a toluene solvent, not the water-gel.
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:36:03 GMT, "Steven Bliss" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
>it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?


Sometimes I do, sometimes don't. I put my first initial and last name
with the year. I have carved it or burned it using a solderng gun.
It's nice to recall when a piece was made!

I go to a trophy shop and have them make a brass plate with my name and date
on it. Only costs a few bucks, and I just stick it in an inconspicuous
area.
Eric

"Steven Bliss" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Dr%[email protected]...
> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you
do
> it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?
>
> --
> Steve & Lauri Bliss
> San Antonio, Texas
>
>

Andy Dingley wrote:

> I use my usual cheap Japanese calligraphy pens - Zig or Sakura brand.
> Pigment inks, archivally stable.

Hrm... I haven't done any calligraphy since Art 101, but that's not a bad
idea at all.

> For dark items (often oil-blackened steel), I also use the silver ink
> pens, but get the ones with a toluene solvent, not the water-gel.

Not a bad idea either.

I've been using Sharpies as a practical matter though. I bought a case of
Sharpies once upon a time, and I haven't used all of them up yet. :)

They seem to be OK over cured shellac, with wax on top.

I'll look at calligraphy pens the next time I'm in some place that sells
artsy stuff though.

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Scott Cramer wrote:

> Do you wear breathing protection when using the woodburning iron? I
> mean, isn't there a danger of smoke inhalation? I would think that the
> risk of a spark would be there as well... I trust you sign your work well
> away from your DC system.

You had me going for a second, then I read who the author was.

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Steven Bliss wrote:

> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you
> do
> it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

For years I have signed my work in an inconspicuous spot using a Sharpie. I
always put my name and the date of completion. Lately I've started adding
a title, and details of construction too.

I'm going to have to come up with a different plan now that shellac is my
default finish. Alcohol eats Sharpie ink. I knew that, but I forgot. Hoo
boy, what a mess.

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:20:04 +0100, Juergen Hannappel
<[email protected]> wrote:

>So you create a year 2100 problem for the users of your works?

By 2100, Google will be offering their on-line dendochronology search.

"Steven Bliss" <[email protected]> writes:

> Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do
> it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

I carve in my initials with a 2mm gouge

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Gregg Germain <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

> I take a small V shaped chisel and carve in a backstaff, my first
> initial and last name, and the last two numbers of the year.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So you create a year 2100 problem for the users of your works?

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