Thread: Saw Engraving

Originally Posted by Alex.R

Hey Guys,

My Grandpa died recently and left me a sum of money to buy something that I would remember him by, he too was into woodwork so I thought the ideal thing to buy wood be something to do with wood.

I was thinking along the lines of a nice tenon saw, maybe a LN or Bad Axe.

However, I thought it would be nice to get his name or something along those lines engraved into the brass back. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this and whether the company would do it for an additional cost or to take it to a professional engraver?

Any help would be great!

Alex,
this will be an heirloom for the future...so my take on it is to have a job done on it that will be impressive in 2 days, 2 years, 2 decades, 2 generations...so even if you pay handsomely to have it done, it will be worth it for a long long time.
I use a local jewellery and gun engraver here in Melbourne...he did this for me...see his web-page. here Nick Karagulidis

Regards,
Peter
www.petermcbride.com

Originally Posted by lightwood

Alex,
this will be an heirloom for the future...so my take on it is to have a job done on it that will be impressive in 2 days, 2 years, 2 decades, 2 generations...so even if you pay handsomely to have it done, it will be worth it for a long long time.
I use a local jewellery and gun engraver here in Melbourne...he did this for me...see his web-page. here Nick Karagulidis

Regards,
Peter
www.petermcbride.com

Soooooooo nice Peter.......
Work of bloody art and not just the engraving

Originally Posted by Alex.R

Hey Guys,

My Grandpa died recently and left me a sum of money to buy something that I would remember him by, he too was into woodwork so I thought the ideal thing to buy wood be something to do with wood.

I was thinking along the lines of a nice tenon saw, maybe a LN or Bad Axe.

However, I thought it would be nice to get his name or something along those lines engraved into the brass back. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this and whether the company would do it for an additional cost or to take it to a professional engraver?

Any help would be great!

Sorry to hear about your grandpa, an engraved saw along the lines that Peter has demonstrated with that amazing plane would be a fitting tribute. I can't help with the design you might choose, but I would pick a saw that perhaps had some significance to your grandpa, maybe a favourite saw if you have it. Or if you are thinking of buying one. I would consider a Wenzloff, or Bad Axe to be good choices, Eccentric tool works would be another good one. The LN, whilst it's a good saw, is a little too vanilla for such a tribute. Saws last for hundreds of years in the rough and tumble life of a workshop, so as a special tribute you could expect it will be passed down from generation to generation within the family it will last for much longer.

So my suggestion is, make it something special.

Regards
Ray

Cheers for the replys guys, I will have a look at the Wenzloff, and Bad Axe ones now, and I think the go would be to ask the different jewelers around town and come up with my own design etc

Hi Alex,
I'm currently organising to engrave one of IanW's handmade saws (but don't tell him .. it's a secret) and I am going to use the company that engraved these chisels which was done as a gift to me.
I'll let you know how it goes.
fletty

Fletty,
that looks like its been done with a lazer, it that the case?
Peters has been gouged deep into that little sucker of a plane and is very different and cooler than 10 cool things with special reasons for being cool!

Originally Posted by Lumber Bunker

Fletty,
that looks like its been done with a lazer, it that the case?

Hi Steve,
I THINK it was done with a photoetched mask and a little shotblaster. I've designed the logo for Ian's saw/s and will ask if I can watch the process .....
...would that be tool AND voyeurism?

fletty

Originally Posted by fletty

Hi Steve,
I THINK it was done with a photoetched mask and a little shotblaster. I've designed the logo for Ian's saw/s and will ask if I can watch the process .....
...would that be tool AND voyeurism?

fletty

Will it be on Video or just photo??

Have an Uncle who was an engraver will have to ask him about tool engraving, he was the engraver at Knock & Kirbys store in George st Sydney.

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Have an Uncle who was an engraver will have to ask him about tool engraving, he was the engraver at Knock & Kirbys store in George st Sydney.

I worked at the ANZ and the AGL in the 60s and we used to roam the city at lunchtime - I remember taking my fathers saws in for sharpening and I am pretty sure they were booked in through the same counter as the engraving - could have dealt with your uncle

Mainly we used nock & kirbys in Parramatta but that meant a trip on a Saturday morning and we might not get back to North Rocks in time for the wrestling on tv so dad used to wrap the saw in newspaper and I would take it with me on the bus and train on a Monday and pick it up Thursday

Differnt times eh

Originally Posted by brontehls

I worked at the ANZ and the AGL in the 60s and we used to roam the city at lunchtime - I remember taking my fathers saws in for sharpening and I am pretty sure they were booked in through the same counter as the engraving - could have dealt with your uncle

Mainly we used nock & kirbys in Parramatta but that meant a trip on a Saturday morning and we might not get back to North Rocks in time for the wrestling on tv so dad used to wrap the saw in newspaper and I would take it with me on the bus and train on a Monday and pick it up Thursday

Differnt times eh

I'll have to ask him, I recall many of N&K's staff were old tradies so he may have been handeling them for them. If not him one of his daughters used to be at the stand.

ANZ now thats a WOW his SiL and daughter worked at ANZ city also.