How to Stamp your Mark on a Blade

Ben discusses the various ways of stamping your logo for a knife or other metal tool. Here he uses a press to get the best results.
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[@edmundbollom1935]

It’s amazing to see the dozens of little processes and details that go into each blade

[@mickspain330]

Good set up Ben, but i always use a heavy copper / hide mallet, using the copper side of the mallet to strike the stamp, you eliminate the bounce when using a steel hammer,

[@24934637]

Very useful vid, thank you. I've recently gone full time with my knifemaking partly because I was just totally sick of my job, and wanted to do work that I'm passionate about instead of stacking veggies in a supermarket.....Difficult to get excited and enthusiastic about potatos unless you are a hobbit! Seeing as it's now my job, a touchmark is vital. Never used one before, but I'd been thinking that using a hydraulic press would give better results than just hitting it with a hammer, so you have confirmed my thoughts on that point. What did surprise me is that you apply the stamp cold! There is no doubt that the press is more than capable, I'm guessing that you are doing it before hardening? Subscribed now.

[@BenOrford]

Great stuff glad you found it useful. Sure stamping it cold it’s in a fully annealed state and I normally run a stress relief cycle on the blades before hardening. Hope that helps Many thanks cheers Ben

[@24934637]

Makes sense, and yes, very helpful and much appreciated! Thank You.

[@davidcampbell9755]

Thanks Ben, do the same here with my logo too. Use my press also for making micarta slabs for handles. 😀🤘

[@whome6764]

Nice to see the in and outs of stamping.

[@charliekingpine3893]

Hi Ben that's most interesting very good, lots of tech talk in your craft, there a lot to it

[@tobiashangler]

Great in depth video! Thank you!

[@nigelwylie01]

Thanks Ben. Really interesting video. It doesn’t matter at all (why am I even writing it then? I ask myself. I can’t stop myself, I reply 😂), but technically here you are de-bossing. Embossing is creating a raised design. De-bossing is creating an impressed design. But you already knew that I expect. Not a simple process is it, knife-making? Thanks for these interesting videos showing us. I’m not a maker, but I use your tools, so I like seeing the processes they have been through.

[@junaidanwar-khan1403]

Many thanks great video , I had mine made from Chris as you mentioned in the video really happy with it.

[@johnisabeth2504]

Thanks. A bit trickier on a knife with a full bevel.

[@BenOrford]

Sure you will have to pack the blade or even mark it before grinding the opposite side. I have done that in the past

[@erosangelos9422]

Thank you, very detail stamp ,nice work)

[@justa1098]

I'm glad I'm doing mine the exact same way. 👍

[@joshmajor8662]

Doing it cold makes me alittle nervous but if it works it’s works Lol 🤷‍♂️ I hand set it warm and HATE IT!! Haha

[@BenOrford]

I would be more nervous doing it cold if it wasn’t fully annealed steel. I presume if your forging you run some stress relief cycles? If so I think you would be find stamping cold plus makes a really crisp mark 👍

[@gregbrown3082]

Hi Ben, where did you pick up that extended lever arm for your arbor press? I'm having a bear of a time finding anything like it! Cheers-

[@HouseBladeDesign]

I surface grind both side before HT takes the stress out an I dont get any warped blade from the stamp

[@GottliebGoltz]

Thank's again.

[@stanjepson2054]

CAN YOU USE A 4 OR 6 TON ARBOR PRESS TO DO THE SAME THING?

[@mariuszbandrowski8024]

do You stamp mark on f.e. m390, i don't know if i could buy 10 or 15T...