signing your work

[Steven Bliss]

Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

[Juergen Hannappel]

I carve in my initials with a 2mm gouge

[Anonymous]

-- I AM NOT PARANOID .. .. .. but EVERYONE thinks I am !! !! !!

[Silvan]

For years I have signed my work in an inconspicuous spot using a Sharpie. I always put my name and the date of completion. Lately I've started adding a title, and details of construction too.

I'm going to have to come up with a different plan now that shellac is my default finish. Alcohol eats Sharpie ink. I knew that, but I forgot. Hoo boy, what a mess.

[Phisherman]

Sometimes I do, sometimes don't. I put my first initial and last name with the year. I have carved it or burned it using a solderng gun. It's nice to recall when a piece was made!

[Bruce Farley]

in article Dr%Cb.125247$ [e-mail], Steven Bliss at [e-mail] wrote on 12/14/03 7:36 AM:

I find a place to put in a $2 bill. I date the bill and sign it. Hope it is never found because it is usually in a place that will only be found while dismantling the piece! I sort of think of the If These Walls Could Talk TV show. Bruce

[stoutman]

That penny idea is neat. I might steal that idea and make it my own. :)

diameter/depth,

[Eric Calvin]

I go to a trophy shop and have them make a brass plate with my name and date on it. Only costs a few bucks, and I just stick it in an inconspicuous area. Eric

[Andy Dingley]

I use my usual cheap Japanese calligraphy pens - Zig or Sakura brand. Pigment inks, archivally stable.

For dark items (often oil-blackened steel), I also use the silver ink pens, but get the ones with a toluene solvent, not the water-gel.

-- Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods

[Silvan]

Betcha I can build anything you'd like $2 cheaper than you can. :)

[dave]

I put 1st initial and last name then year, type of wood and short pertinent description if needed, in soft pencil under shellac on the bottom. Didn't used to, but got lots of requests/demands. Dave in Fairfax

[Silvan]

Hrm... I haven't done any calligraphy since Art 101, but that's not a bad idea at all.

Not a bad idea either.

I've been using Sharpies as a practical matter though. I bought a case of Sharpies once upon a time, and I haven't used all of them up yet. :)

They seem to be OK over cured shellac, with wax on top.

I'll look at calligraphy pens the next time I'm in some place that sells artsy stuff though.

[Andy Dingley]

These are double-ended (wide and narrow) chisel tips, pretty Western in style. For timber framing I also use Japanese "kindergarten" brush-calligraphy pens, with a long flexible fibre-tip. I guess I ought to use a real brush and a sumitsubo, but there are limits...

-- What ? Me ? Evil Dictator of Iraq ? Nah mate, I'm just a Hobbit, honest

[Jimlemon]

I always sign in an inconspicuous place, usually with a sharpie, and then I have an attachment for my woodburning tool (pyrograph) with my initials. I use this too.

[Upscale]

And if anyone is interested, Lee Valley Tools sells a few models of branding irons.

[Larry Bud]

Not sure how that helps. I can go buy a Lincoln penny back to 1909 if I want.

[Chris]

In fact, JOAT posted instructions on how to make one just a few months ago, IIRC. DAGS - JOAT and IRON. I printed them out and was looking at them just yesterday.

I usually carve my initials and date with a small chisel somewhere inconspicous.

-Chris

[Gena Dahilig]

good morning steve and lauri. on all my cabinets,dressers,and couch's inside front bottom, i crave out about half inch high two inch's across and quarter inch in , and with ingraver i sign my signature, and glue it in, than i put two lil cabinet doors with tiny winy nobs (handels) and a ity bity lock lach.

people love to call me and laugh about the lil cabinet doors, they trip on the fact that they open/close just like any other cabinet, yes i know. I am weird.

but the ingraver works really cool with your sig, or a flower design, anything really, well hope it helped.

[Gregg Germain]

Steven Bliss wrote: : Do any of you sign your work? If so, what do you put on it & how do you do : it. Anyone have any luck with the wood-burning stamps?

: -- : Steve & Lauri Bliss : San Antonio, Texas

I take a small V shaped chisel and carve in a backstaff, my first initial and last name, and the last two numbers of the year.

[Juergen Hannappel]

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So you create a year 2100 problem for the users of your works?