Thread: How do you make your mark?

There certainly are many ways to mark blades, and I've looked into most of them. For me I've been experimenting with Photoresistive Etching as I feel it offers far superior edge definition, and it's not too difficult to do. My view of electro-chem etching is that while it's easily done and practical for many blades, to me the quality of the linework just isn't tight enough - the image appears 'fuzzy' on close inspection and that would just drive me crazy.
Hand stamping is also a great method, and if you setup a hydraulic press to do the work then you'll have nice consistency and a crisp image every time. But the cost of producing various stamps for marking different parts of the razor is just too expensive - plus over time you'll have to re-order these stamps as the do eventually wear down and the image becomes softened.
Knife-maker Jay Fisher has a page dedicated to marking methods on his site, I found it quite helpful and nice to see he also utilises photoresistive etching as his marking method of choice.
Knife Maker's Mark of Jay Fisher, Maker of Handmade and Custom Knives

Hope it helps,
- Mike