Logo on handle?

[Cushing H.]

Has anyone ever put a logo or image on a handle? Like.. something printed on a laser printer then somehow laminated onto the handle. Kind of a gag i know, and wont hold up long term, but something i am musing about for one of those small projects of mine...

 

[john april]

opinel is the only one that comes to mind.

 

[Cushing H.]

Never heard of them ... but looks like those are mostly laser engraved? I was thinking more along the lines of laminating a printed image (paper) onto the handle, covered by some sort of finish ... polyurethane perhaps? to hold it in place. think that would work? (like I said ... this is somewhat of a gag ... it can always be sanded down/off and the handle later finished with a permanent finish if need be I guess....

 

[anonymous76]

I realize it isn't quite what you had in mind, but I intend on branding my handles in the future rather than stamp the blade. I already made a huge branding iron for the task. It works great on horn. I don't know about other materials since I have decided to use water buffalo horn exclusively.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Go to a trophy shop or big engraving shop. Take black and white art work of what you want. They will laser it on the finished handle.

 

[Cushing H.]

Ha. As simple as that? Cool.

 

[scott kozub]

I'm sure you could do something like that pretty easily with alumilite casting resin.

 

[Cushing H.]

The alumilite is a workable idea also. Thanks guys