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kile

kile

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I am planning on trying to sell my first knife, I have made a few for myself and my family and friends, and I have traded a few, but since this one will probably go to someone I don't know and have never met, I wanted to mark the blade with my name. I don't have a stamp, or any other way of marking the blade, so I thought maybe I could take it to an engraver in my area and have my name engraved on the blade. What do you guys think of that? Will it work? I had them engrave my dad's name on a steel handled calypso jr sometime last year, and it only cost around 4 dollars. I figured it was the cheapest way to get a nice makers mark on the blade. What do you all think? Anybody have a better idea?
thanks
Kyle Fuglesten
 
Yes that will work just fine. Some shopping malls have store that does computerized engraving. They could design a logo and save it for you. One good thing about that is they can adjust the size for each size of knife.
 
I started out with engraving of my initials too. I stopped because of the high price (it's sometimes cheaper if you have several knives to engrave at the same time) and bad quality (several of my knives were damaged due to poor clamping of the handles (better engrave a non finished blade). Now i use a homemade stamp: i forge my blade and mark my logo on the blade using a D2 stamp (filed out by hand and heat treated afterwards).

Working the hardened steel while engraving won't be a problem if they use a motorized diamond covered tool.
 
L6 and I both use a New Hermes Engravograph for our blades. I knew about them from when I did engraving waybackwhen before I got a real job. What I love about it is I can do anything I can make a stencil for. The downside is either paying through the nose for the engraver, or handing it over to someone of questionable skill. I'd just watch the person that's going to do the engraving. We had one guy at the shop that I worked at that couldn't engrave to save his soul, and it showed when he took an order for it. He always looked a bit scared.
Mine engraves in hardened steel just fine with a diamond bit in non-motorized mode.
 
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