How to Make a Touchmark Stamp!

A revisit to my first blacksmithing video I uploaded to KZbin almost two years ago.
The original video has been bugging me for a long time, as to this day it is is my most viewed video... and yet it is frankly terrible.
I therefore decided I would give it a bit of a revamp as I’ve been planning to make myself a new, smaller touchmark stamp anyway.
Hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching!
Music: Bensound.com

[@kevg3320]

"... now I've got a copper pot!" 😂

[@newbie1343]

This was a great video to watch. Thanks, Phil!

[@PJTForging]

No, no... thank you! 😁

[@andywright2606]

Nice clean looking touch mark Phil. Wish mine was as easy to design. Trying to mash an F into a W and still be able to file it into the end of a small enough bar is #@%# hard. Well Done👍⚒

[@PJTForging]

Thanks! You could just stick two little lines coming off the last line of the W at 90⁰ angle? Heh. :)

[@Prepper_Raider]

Thanks Phil :)

[@dwayneburbridge3283]

Well done…but I think I’ll avoid EN-24 myself!

[@ThatOneWJ99]

Actually listened to your first videos description. Surprise to me! It’s not click bait🤣

[@PJTForging]

I'm an honest guy! It's awful. 😂

[@recyclerman1]

Great video Phil... Could I use a old drill bit?

[@PJTForging]

The honest answer is I don't know, but personally I wouldn't try... purely because I've snapped so many drill bits in my time that I don't think they're made of a very impact/shatter resistant steel.

[@recyclerman1]

@@PJTForging cheers Phil... Thank you

[@PJTForging]

@@recyclerman1 like I say mate, mild steel is fine, or if you want I'd recommend an old chisel. Just thinking about it, potentially a drill bit may work, assuming it's a HSS bit, they're designed to be pretty hard and tough, I guess so long as you tempered it correctly, it might work? Dunno. Give it a try and let me know. 🤣

[@recyclerman1]

@@PJTForging cheers buddy.. My thinking was if it was already hardened steel.. But like you said it could shatter.. I don't have the place or tools to heat, but I can temper... But I have masonry chisels

[@PJTForging]

@@recyclerman1 baking tray, pliers and a hair dryer is all you need. :)

[@stephenbershenyi5042]

Phil look up Robb Gunter's Super quench recipe for A36 mild steel.

[@PJTForging]

Noted. Cheers!

[@gurvinderkau1e5w18]

Nice video touchmark look good. Thats a complicated steel you are using .

[@PJTForging]

Thanks Gurvinder! Glad you like it. :)

[@5jimmymo]

Good video, but always quench on a rising heat..

[@5jimmymo]

Not that it matters for this purpose, I suppose.