Show us YOUR sign.

Here is what I hang out the side of the tent at the faire's

I made this one for the shop that I restored for the New Braunfels Conservation Society but I don't have one at my home shop since it's located behind the house and no one ever visits (apart from other blacksmiths).

I made the sign brace in 1981 while a student at Salem College. The sign was made in March of 2007 by Country Fab, with their new computer controlled plasma table. My initials in the center is what I have been using as my mark for over 20 years.

Geez! You guys all have some fancy signs!

oops, wrong button.

Awesome signs though. I have to get over to my pallie Scott's and use his plasma cutter...

here's the sign outside my shop, little baby dragon in sheet copper

I made this for Mike a few years back for Christmas. It is all 3/8" aluminum.

It is all cut out on a waterjet.
Anvil is Black anodized
Letters are Gold anodized

I ran a couple of waterjet machines, and did some editing for a sign company. I did all the cutting, anodizing, and finishing during lunch breaks for a week or so. It was a good experience...


Peyton

Here is my other sign to take to demonstrations


sign for demos - Blacksmith Photo Gallery

I don't have a formal sign as yet. I did cut one out of plywood and painted it up real purty for a Christmas bazaar this past Christmas to hang hooks and ornaments on. I will have to get a picture.

Mr. Hoffmann, I noticed your initials and actually have a very similar mark. My initials are PAT and I started using mine in the 6th grade, back in 78-79 time frame.
If you look at the bottom of the knocker backing you will see my mark.

I cut and filed my stamp out of the end of an old cold chisel. The problem is I cut it out like I make my mark, and not in mirror view. So now all my marks are backwards.
My wife calls it my dyslexic mark:D

Paul, I started writing my initials this way around 74-75, then got the idea to incorperate them into a mark after I started my own business in 81. Similar minds? The only difference from the sign is my mark is in a square cartouche, (carved the initials into the end of a square punch.) Since the sign is a cut out, the horizontal line for the A stops short so that part does not fall out. My intials are JAH.

here's a shot of the sign outside my shop.

Gee Mr. Bill, the sign is rather plain don't you think?

The hanger is lovely though.

Frostilio

Here's mine. My daughter made it with felt so it can be rolled up between shows.

Mark

Not mine but i did it and sent it to the customer today .... here it is
HPIM5613 - Blacksmith Photo Gallery

bill and valentin - outstanding.

the following four pictures are the current sign i have, shaped like a thought bubble and salvaged from some old signalling equipment; a shot of the front of my building before i moved in, and some shots of the old galt knife plant. i intend to paint my signage on the front above the door in this style, extending all the way across, saying HOPE FORGE, HAMILTON, ONT. so take a look

note: the bulk uploader rearranged the order of these pictures, not sure why. my shop is on the far right. great thread topic Glenn!

My son the graphic artist just made this sign for me as part of his Senior project at college. All that money paid off.:D

Edited May 22, 200917 yr by Doug C
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you guys have some awsome signs, i myself have no sign but i will someda lol

That's very attractive Doug. Congratulations of realizing some return on the tuition already!

Frosty

Thanks Frosty. Now I just need to build the skills to make the sign really mean something!!

Heat it beat it and keep the good mistakes. (I read something about that SOMEWHERE)

We're all on the path and the end is when we quit or die so the destination isn't the important thing, it's the trip.

Enjoy the trip.

Frosty

I'm pretty excited about finishing my sign, so I'm bringing this thread back. Keep posting them! :D

 

Here goes

Last name is Stick.    SF = Stick Forge.    Made from some leftover scroll work... experiments and a left over piece of Mahogany.   Carving tools from a buddy of mine that died last summer.    Black comes from Sharpy Marker on the wood.  Lettering ment to match the band KISS.   Not a big kiss fan btw...   Also matches my homemade touchmark.

 

My little teaching studio no power tools allowed...  The other three are in the background...