Thread: As promised, site is up for Makers Marks

Hi all, it's nothing new as far as concept or delivery, but it's been a pet project of mine and I'd brought it up briefly, so here it is finally. I've started a blog / site to catalog my collection, but of main focus is a high-resolution picture catalog of makers marks. The idea is to have an easy-to-navigate reference of common and uncommon marks, maybe for comparison with your own, or whatever you want. Hopefully it will be useful to someone. It will be vastly expanding in the next few weeks as I finish photographing and cataloging.

The site is still ugly in parts as it is under major construction, but the parts that are up now should be useful. I'd love to add marks if anyone wants to provide images, but I'm going to play it like Apple and control the content, so I will make a stipulation that it should match the format of what is already up, i.e. it should be framed the same, hi-resolution, and a separate picture for each separate mark on the blade. Maybe we can make a large catalogue if people want to contribute. Just an idea, I'll work out kinks later.

Let me know what you think. And please let me know if there are any factual errors that you find.

http://acierfondu.wordpress.com (all content so far is through the menu at the top)

A Thanks is not enough for this kind of work. When I begin to get a little bored with the Forum it is members like you and a small handful of others that keep me coming back, keep me dreaming of the Holy Grail du jour, and keep me making questionable decisions regarding this worthy pursuit.......altruism is in short supply these days....thanks again.

Great idea! I might be able to contribute some as well.

Very cool. Just a couple of minutes on there, and I learned a few things about razors that I have. Your collection is most impressive.
Thanks.

Very cool. Thank you. I have bookmarked it.


Mike

Very cool resource!

Bookmarked. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much for your hard work!!

Thank-you for the great resource.

In terms of contributions, you mention hi-res shots hosted at another site.

Are you open to having members send you any pics of various marks / razors with relevant info and adding them to the directory yourself? For instance an unusual Greaves, a George Brittain, or other somewhat unique razors?

Bookmarked and beautiful site design.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Thank-you for the great resource.

In terms of contributions, you mention hi-res shots hosted at another site.

Are you open to having members send you any pics of various marks / razors with relevant info and adding them to the directory yourself? For instance an unusual Greaves, a George Brittain, or other somewhat unique razors?

Bookmarked and beautiful site design.

Sorry if it wasn't too clear. I just figured it would be easy to upload them temporarily, like to Imgur or something, then I could download and upload through the blog. But email works too, I was just concerned about file sizes. I'm looking for anything really, it's sometimes just as nice to have all the really unusual marks as it is to have an armful of very common stamps - for the latter, for example, you can see that the arrow on the Wade & Butcher mark sometimes has 3, 4, or 5 fletchings.

And I've already done a number of overhauls to my format, please let me know if there's anything you want to see added or problems with the structure as it is. Glad it's well received.