Bigred1o1 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 touch mark for the post above its a WM and for me making it readable right side up and upside down was key Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 mine used to be "NF" for Nelson Forge, but soon it will be like thislogo FIF.pdf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendik Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 This is the touchmark I use, a simple B for Bendik. I have two different sizes, one 6mm high and one 10mm high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Glenn gave me the number to Columbia Marking tools company, I dealt with Brian Barbera who gave me the "IFORGE" discount, easy to deal with, patient with my ignorance and gave great advice, and now here is the touchmark stamped in clay. I am trying to train myself to use clay as a beginning step to forging, so that is why it is in clay first. 3/8th's very heavy duty, don't think it will wear out anytime soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYBOY Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 You wont be disappointed in the CMT stamp..We have had ours about two years and its still crisp as can be..Its marked many hundreds of pieces in that time..great stamp! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip in china Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 My touchmark is the same as my avatar here- a Star of David inside an outline of an anvil. It is about 18mm wide. I have had it for about 4 years now and it is still crisp and clear. I don't put it on everything but use it quite a lot. I got it from Blackbird Custom Touchmarks. I think you would find them on Google. I don't remember how much it cost but I remember being surprised how cheap it was. They also did me a stamp with the Hebrew character "Shin" as I use that when I am making mezzuzzah covers. I think these days a manufacturer can make pretty well anything you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aessinus Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Ain't real creative here, just used my stock brand, down-sized to 1/2 & 1/4" drill steel, W2. Works tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbudd Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 my new touchmark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pug}{maN Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 mines being made right now at incandescent iron by steve mcgrew , ill post a pic when it gets here... but it will look like the CP in the Circle there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec.S Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Here is my touchmark!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvereaglevaughan Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 l will get around to making mine one of these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith C Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I am just starting my shop (now that I'm retired) my avatar is my touchmark... hope, I didn't duplicate anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife maker man Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I was thinking of something like this. I don't know if I'll keep it this way or make it more square. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 this is my touch mark I designed it about 14 years ago my forge is nokomisforge (nokomis) being the moon goddess it is the town I was living in at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Greetings Knife maker, That's my touch mark.. Been using it for years... I add the year at the end.... Yea and my middle name is Art... I would be honored to share it with you. Forge on and make beautiful things.. JAC , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob S Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I figured out how to post pic to a thread, so here is a pic of what my touchmark is. are you sgt major? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasaboucher Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I haven't had a stamp made up yet, but when I do it will look like this. It's my initials 'TB' incorporated into an anchor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. McKraut Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Greetings Knife maker, That's my touch mark.. Been using it for years... I add the year at the end.... Yea and my middle name is Art... I would be honored to share it with you. Forge on and make beautiful things.. JAC , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. McKraut Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Oh wow, cool. I'm honored that you'd share it with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgivun Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Mine is the one on the bottom, Double B's in a Bumble Bee. "Blake Benefield". On a copper bracelet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneCoeArtistBlacksmith Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I believe that touch marks (symbols) are good for you being able to identify your own work, even some other Blacksmiths may know who uses that symbol. Last year at the Blade Show a maker had bought a knife from a Pawn shop. He showed it to me and asked if I knew whose touch mark it was. I recognized it as a hammer in a halo, the mark of Ryan Johnson of Chattanooga, Tn. I then took him over to Ryan's booth and introduced them. It is fortunate that he asked me and not almost anyone else there and I knew only because is a friend and mentor. We had discussed his touchmark about 13 years before. My touchmark is: Wayne Coe. Now is anyone sees it they will know whose mark that is or can at least do a search for Wayne Coe on the internet. I also make my mark deep and on the face of the item. "Craftsmen sign their work on the back, Artists sign their work on the front." Darrel Nelson tells of making a set of Bear Heads for another blacksmith to use on a set of andirons he was making for a customer. Darrel made the bears and put his touchmark on them. He later saw the andirons and the maker had ground off his touchmark. Therefore, I make my mark deep and on the face. If anyone wants to grind off my mark they will destroy the piece. Moral of the story, "Don't try to steal my work." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01tundra Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Mine - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Frog Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 I finally had mine done for real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01tundra Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 That's a very cool touchmark black frog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Frog Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Thanks! Yours is very nice as well, very graceful! Now that I see mine in steel I realize most I've seen are quite nice and professional looking while mine looks very 'raw'.... kind of apropos for me I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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