Any suggestions on my makers mark..

Athenas Edge

Athenas Edge

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Hello Everybody,

So I got this order in, and the knifes coming out beautifully but my customer keeps bringing up my logo. He loves it, and wants it on his knife. I really dig that, but I've already explored getting a etching stencil made. The answer I got was basically can't help you out it's way to complicated. Kind of a bummer, but if it can't be done that way there's nothing I can do.

I was told laser etching could be a choice, but I can't afford anything like that right now as far as I'm aware. The last option I've explored is getting a custom hand stamp made. The company that makes them told me they could put my design on a stamp, and I kind of don't believe them. Maybe I'm just cynical at this point, but either way I'm not sure if a stamp would produce something with the quality needed for a nice blade.

If anyone has an experience, or suggestions please let me know. I'll make sure to include the knife needing a markers mark, and my logo that I need on it.

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I had my makers mark made but the design had to be way simplified. You could probably get the entire shape as a logo stamp. Not the inner part of the detail though.


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Isn't there a way to etch a logo with some sort of stencil screen? I thought I saw a video on it on YT.

Edit: This is one of the vids talking about electro etching a logo onto a knife...
[video=youtube;t2Hdqqb9d_k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Hdqqb9d_k[/video]
 
Everyone recommends the guy that was actually mentioned in the video, and I asked him. I'm still waiting on some emails from other places, but I doubt it will be any different.
 
What limited experience I have it would seem that logo does have a bit too much detail to reliably etch onto a blade, unless it was really overly large, which defeats the purpose.

Seems you could keep the font as is but convert the helmet to a simple line drawing, without all of the shading and finer detail and it should work.

This would only be for your stencils used for etching, not your logo in general. It could remain unchanged.
 
i would commend the guy for telling you its too complicated, rather than just taking your money and selling you something that will not work out well. . since the knife is already made, maybe try a trophy shop, they do engraving.
 
I like the idea of that actually, there's one right down the street from me. I'll take a look at pricing, and see if it's even worth it. Thanks!
 
That's a cool logo. Very detailed! Most trophy shops have a CO2 laser which can't engrave into metal, they may be able to use a product called Cermark which deposits a ceramic topcoating onto the blade using the heat of the laser, but they'd have to know what they're doing to use it. Most trophy shops likely wouldn't have experience using Cermark. I run a small custom engraving shop and do a lot of makers marks and custom work on knives, guns and other metals. For metal I use a high powered fiber laser, gets great detail. If you're interested in shipping blades to me in FL I can mark them and get them back to you for a decent price. PM and we discuss. Check out my knife engraving album on facebook at @TheBlastingCabinet. Email: Matt@TheBlastingCabinet.com
 
I have had a couple logos done as Blaster-6 describes and it does a really nice detailed job--I think I would ask a knowledgeable stencil shop's design dept. if they could simplify you logo to a state at which they would say it would make a good stencil, and see what that looks like, I think as others have suggested you would just need to lose some of the detail in it and you'd still have a nice logo IMO
 
Yeah I'm not sure if I'm keen on degrading logo detail, only for very selfish reasons. I really like the design, and have had some detail removed for a stencil and just don't like the idea of that. Laser etching sounds like my only option right now, guess it all depends on the price. Thanks for all the advice so far gents, really appreciate it.
 
Just an update on this thread for anyone interested I sent out my blade to blaster-6 and he did an excellent job on my makers mark. Laser etching is the only option I have atm with my complicated design, and Matt nailed it. I will be doing business with him in the future, and if you are also looking to have some laser etching done I would send him an email.

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