My new makers mark

[hellgap]

I am so happy with Ernie Grospitch I could harly wait to show my mark. I spent alot of time to come up with this. kellyw

 

[B. Davis knives]

looks great

 

[NickWheeler]

Who is KD knives????

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

KD? Who is that? Shouldn't it be KW?
Stacy

 

[Patrice Lemée]

I am also curious. K.D. Lang fan maybe?

Patrice

 

[hellgap]

nick KDKIVES IS MY .COM and My name Kelly D wiens

 

[Fletch Helical]

Make the handle a little longer and go with KDW knives?

*edit*, nevermind I didn't know you had the website as KD knives.

 

[hellgap]

Dam spelling KDKNIVES is my web site and .com name and my real name is Kelly D Wiens. My friends call me to go fishin lol

 

[Phil Dwyer]

I bet you're thrilled. Where are the pix of some branded knives? I wonder what it would look like with a small .com added?

 

[NickWheeler]

My point is that I think it's best if you pick up a knife and can see the maker's name right on it.

I used to want to have some kind of cool shop name or weird logo and my dad said to me, "Well if we see it, then we know you made it. What if some guy on the other side of the country sees it and has never heard of you. Don't you think he should be able to look up a real name?" (or something along those lines)

IDK- maybe it's just that it's become a matter of pride for me to be able to put my actual name on my work, just like most any craftsman signs his work.

 

[Will Leavitt]

If you look at advice given to most collectors it's to buy knives with a "name" and not a logo. Course that doesn't apply to some makers and who knows in the future people will know who "KD Knives" is. If you look in some of the other forums here you'll see a couple posts a week asking "does anyone know this maker's mark?"

Looks good now put it on some knives!

 

[hellgap]

I hear ya Will and you have a valid point , but I may add the .com in the future. The part about the name is true but all famous makers marks if they never used their name are still know by the knife collector people . I hope people that see may mark realize its a dot com its really not hard to figure out. SOme times too much of a logo makes a knife also look messy and cluttered. Ill know when I get the stencil on my first knife. I can always add a W but dont have the dot com for that.