signing work

Re: signing work

Fog Tanner

>I forgot to mention the gold stick that Cindy uses is made by Burchwood Casey and can be bought at any decent gun shop where they sell supplies for refinishing stocks. You put on what ever finish you use, engrave your name, and then rub the stick over the name, and wipe off the excess with a paper towle (Viva).. on small endgrain boxes you can put a detail in with the tip of a skew and fill that too as a highlight.

Re: signing work

Barry Irby

>I use a pencil. An ordinary No2 pencil. Inks smear and fade and sit right on the surface. The pencil makes its own little engraving and the carbon in the "lead" is very durable in the light.

I also grow hundreds of plants and tag them with small pieces of aluminum coil stock. I use an engraver to write the name through the paint, but to make it more legible I write over it with a pencil. After a while I realized it holds up outdoors for five years or more. On some of them I could not find the engraver and just wrote on the white with a pencil and it worked.

I hate my own signature though. Can you relearn a prettier one?

My try the engraver to give it more depth.

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Tom in Red Deer

>Hi Ruth,

I use a Koh-I-Noor technical pen (drafting supplies) with permanent ink in it. These pens come in many sizes...I use 1/.50. I prefinish the bottom, sign it, let it dry till next day and use a light coat of tung oil. Let that dry and then wax.

Done about 25 pieces that way so far and no smudges.

Tom in Red Deer

I like my branding iron

Wayne Cease, Atlanta

>The only bad part is it's a bit big from my turning; I have a small lathe. To deal with how long to leave it on, I test it with a scrap of the same wood I used in the project.

Wayne

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ruth in So. Cal

>Thanks for the additional ideas.....I haven't heard of a Koh-I-Noor in decades! Now I will have to try and remember why it's familiar...maybe it was a high school standard back in the 60s in the UK.....

Re: signing work

Duane C.Leach

>Barry. Can you relearn to wright your signature pretier? I don't see why not. You learned how to turn didn't you. It's like everything else in life, if you don't like it, then change it.

Happy turning.

Duane leach

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Ron in Drums PA

>They are drafting pens filled with india ink. I remember the tips would always clog.

I still have a dozen or so somewhere.

Re: signing work

Barry Irby

>I'm sure I could. (I'm wondering if I could learn to have a better reflexion in the mirror?)

My son is dyslexic or dysgraphic or some such thing. His writing is terrible. After hundreds of hours of practice, his writing is so bad as to be truly illegible. He can write equally illegibility frontwards and back wards. But you should see his drawing. Amazing. He used to decorate the sticks they use in martial arts. Really nice work. I asked him if he could learn to draw the letters as if they were art and he can. A stunning difference. Still can't write worth a damn.

I may need to pick a prettier signature and learn to draw it.