Maker's Mark Shout Out

[AVigil]

We all know knifemakers, some we recognize their makers mark some we no clue as to who made what.

There are makers on Blade Forums we talk to and read their posts everyday and still have no idea what their makers mark is.

How about a Makers Mark Shout Out and show your mark and state how it was done. Also post other makers work and their mark so we can have a current reference.

I will start.

My makers mark are my name and city. I use two sizes of the same mark one smaller then the other. I use Electro Chem process

 

[E.Carlson]

I just use my first initial and last name. Cold stamped with a press.

 

[kuraki]

My makers mark is (my avatar photo) me holding a frozen walleye like a club after snow shoeing out of the Boundary Waters in pitch dark and -20F hauling a 200lb toboggan. It's also why I took the name Fimbulvetr Knifeworks. I'm from Wisconsin. I just got 18" of snow. In April.

Currently, I'm etching that design like this:


However, I'm getting new stencils from Patricia at IMG that will look a little different and include my city and state. I'll add those to this post when I get them.

Because it's so hard to electro etch anything of detail on damascus, I've begun hot stamping my forged damascus work with my last name.


New stencils

 

[john april]

shout out from western massachusetts. its hot stamped right before normalizing. i have two sizes. i etch as well, but i do prefer the depth and blackness of the hot stamp. 1017741_orig by john april, on Flickr

 

[Stromberg Knives]

I use my last name, with a stylized Swedish flag (which is a Nordic or Scandinavian Cross flag) and on top of the funny Swedish letter 'Ö' I have a crown, which symbolizes the Kingdom of Sweden.

And I use the electroetching technique.

 

[Erin Burke]

Mine has always been a simple version of E.F. Burke... in various locations on the blade or spine. I even marked a knife on the guard/tsuba once.

Erin

 

[Kevin McGovern]

I etch mine. Name of my little hobby and town/state. The symbol is at once- two "F" s, a cross, an anvil, and a nail.

 

[lanternnate]

It’s only a hobby for me, but my older daughter told me “daddy you have to sign your art projects.” I explained that smiths use makers marks to sign their work that are often pictures. My younger daughter is obsessed with sharks, so she wanted me to put sharks on my knives. My wife made the picture for me, a hammerhead shark with the head swapped out for a cross peen. A real family affair. Applied in the most basic and unprofessional way possible. “Stencils” cut from electrical tape and q-tips clamped with a little battery charger... makes my ladies happy though and that’s what matters.

 

[JTknives]

I have two marks I use. One is just my name J.J.TODD and the other is my logo of sorts.

Etched

Stamped

 

[timos-]

Here is mine Lorien made for me. I love it. I also have a Loveless style logo with my name and location too but I prefer this one.

 

[Josh Rider]

I have one with just my first initial and last name.



And one Lorien Arnold designed for me which I can’t wait to use.

 

[bmilleker]

Mine is BMKT, for Brendon Milleker Knife & Tool. Nice and simple. I have stencils of it in different sizes to match the knife I am marking.

I am using a Personalizer Plus to get a nice deep etch. Unfortunately, a lot of ghosting occurs with etching deep, so there is cleanup and sanding that happens after the process.

 

[Tom Lewis]

On forged blades, LEWIS, on CPM 154 knives my logo is TR Lewis, Carlsbad NM with the Lewis family crest.

 

[Robert Erickson]

Mine simple logo is etched with the Personalizer Plus. Stencils from Tus tech.

fullsizeoutput_5a0 by Robert Erickson, on Flickr

I will probably change mine at some point to a less busy variation of this:

Untitled by Robert Erickson, on Flickr

 

[One Armed]

http://i.imgur.com/s39pTeR.jpg

Came up with mine after talking to a friend. We were discussing how some type of image showing a flint knapped edge would be cool. Then I decided on the three upward slash marks because "3" is good luck. Sometimes I mark, sometimes etch. And I get my stencils from Ernie's

No name, initials, where, when how. I'm just a hobbyist. And I don't advertise.

 

[Busto]

I go by my nickname given me 50+ years ago and seems it stuck to the point even my former Bosses used it....

 

[Ken H>]

Well, with all the nice maker's mark and knives I see here I sorta hate to post my mark. But, here it is. Homemade stencil with homemade mark system. And, of course there's a story about the hen.

Story of Little Red Hen​

The Little Red Hen came to us when the local animal control officer called and asked if we’d take this hen that had been captured in town. If we didn’t take it, she would have to kill the hen, so we took her. Little Red was a red bantam hen, not sure of age, she’d lived running wild in town for at least a yr or so. She did NOT like dogs. We put her in coop with the 4 full sized hens we had – they pecked Little Red unmercifully. Little Red would get in a nest box, turn her rear to hens and just hunker down while they pecked on her, sometimes getting on top so they could peck her head. This went on for a couple of miserable days, and finally we took Little Red from coop and let her run loose in yard. The other hens would be released from coop around 4pm to run loose. Little Red would follow the big hens everywhere they went. If she got too close, they’d chase her to peck.

We had Little Red for a couple of years, and those hens never accepted her – at times you’d see Little Red sitting against the coop fence (from outside) and the other hens would be up against the coop fence from inside looking for all the world like good buddies. After all this sitting together, if you put Little Red in coop, the pecking would start again. Now, here’s the funny part – ZsuZsu (a Shih Tzu dog) loved to chase the big hens, they’d run from her, but ZsuZsu was too fat to catch any hens. ZsuZsu tried to chase Little Red, but she turned the tables and chased the ZsuZsu – chasing her across yard running her into the house! Those same hens that the dog chased were the hens that chased ‘n pecked Little Red. A perfect triangle. Big hens chases Little Red, Little Red chases dog, dog chases big hens.

For the first year Little Red roosted at night in the hedge at the house where her nest box was. After the first year Little Red decided she wanted to roost with the big hens, so she would roost on top of the coop fence. I had netting over the top to prevent owls or hawks from catching chickens inside coop…. But that didn’t protect Little Red from an owl one night. When we got up one morning, only thing left of Little Red was a bunch of feathers.

The hen on your knife blade is in honor of “Little Red”.

 

[kuraki]

I go by my nickname given me 50+ years ago and seems it stuck to the point even my former Bosses used it....View attachment 890050 View attachment 890050

Busto is better than "Crash" right?

 

[Busto]

Busto is better than "Crash" right?

Without a doubt.....it's pronounced..."BOOZE-TOE"....It was actually interesting the First Time the NASA site Director called me by that name because he had heard others call me by that name. It came to pass that other NASA centers that we worked closely with also knew me by that name ONLY many did not know my actual name....The Mayor calls me Busto...My Parents call me Busto...I don't think my ex wife knows my first name....DOH!!!!

 

[LARRYZ10]

Mine is pretty simple but I have used for so long now that I hesitate to change it. Larry