June 18, 201313 yr I'm making a striking stamp to mark my knives and other items. What size would you recommend?
June 18, 201313 yr Big enough to be ledgible, Not so big to be out of place. Under a foot square :) :) Neil
June 18, 201313 yr How are you going to apply it? a good size for a press applied stamp may be way to large for a hand struck stamp. How "busy" is it, the more "work" it has to do the more force it will need. Will it be used on hot metal or cold? The devil is in the details!
June 18, 201313 yr Big question. I second the legible comment -lots of touch marks aren't and if they are, it's unclear what they're "saying". People seldom include their city and state. Unless you've got a good website, potential customers may need more to go on. A lot of knife makers etch their mark.
June 18, 201313 yr Etching works very well unless you are making purely forged knives where the detail would be out of place.
June 18, 201313 yr Author This will be hand struck, intend to use this in hot metal, though am interested if people feel cold is better. Small quantities of items I produce so no major manufacturing going on so one would last me years. How are you going to apply it? a good size for a press applied stamp may be way to large for a hand struck stamp. How "busy" is it, the more "work" it has to do the more force it will need. Will it be used on hot metal or cold? The devil is in the details!
June 19, 201313 yr Author So you'd recommend the etching route? I've etched Damascus is the process similar? Obviously I'd need a design to etch into the item but the steps are roughly the same I'd assume. Etching works very well unless you are making purely forged knives where the detail would be out of place.
June 19, 201313 yr Author look into electro etching for blades Do we have a good example thread for the etching walk through? I searched and looked at a couple of pages and didn't see anything. Just curious, thanks.
June 19, 201313 yr I really wouldn't worry about stress concentration in this instance. Have a look: http://courses.washington.edu/me354a/chap6.pdf Sure, it'll take more to break something at an etched logo than a stamped one, but who here has ever seen a knife fail there? (As opposed to just repeating tales?) Stress concentration is much more of an issue at the shoulder of the tang, as one can understand by reading the reference given.
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