# Sign your work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Projects\ **Created:** [May 26, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172 "2017-05-26T17:26:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandyHawkins](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/randyhawkins/32/38802_2.png) [@RandyHawkins](https://community.inventables.com/u/RandyHawkins)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/1 "2017-05-26T17:26:02Z")
Who, if anyone, signs their work? If so, how? Maybe a small engraving of your initials somewhere kinda hidden? I would imagine that with signs that would not be easy to do (and the customer may not want some letters on their plaque) but, with carvings, I see where it could be done. …Just curious ---
**Author:** ![MikePotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MikePotter](https://community.inventables.com/u/MikePotter)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/2 "2017-05-26T17:32:45Z")
I would probably sign 3D work that I designed and created myself, but not on stuff where I downloaded images and just watched the machine do the work. i would sign the work on the back though for the reason you stated. ---
**Author:** ![MikePotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MikePotter](https://community.inventables.com/u/MikePotter)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/4 "2017-05-26T17:33:50Z")
That’s cool! ---
**Author:** ![MarcCohen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/marccohen/32/16524_2.png) [@MarcCohen](https://community.inventables.com/u/MarcCohen)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/5 "2017-05-26T17:38:43Z")
Right now I use a clear label with black printing from my label maker on either the back of a project or the bottom of a project. I then seal the label with clear coat. I plan to get an electric branding iron from Rockler eventually. ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/6 "2017-05-26T17:52:08Z")
For that very reason, I do all my modeling from scratch. In the very near future, I can see 3d printers being in every home. You won’t go to the store to buy a spatula; you’ll buy a file online and print it. Kind of Jetson’s-esque , but it is coming. 3D modeling of consumer product libraries is already in the works. ---
**Author:** ![MikePotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MikePotter](https://community.inventables.com/u/MikePotter)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/7 "2017-05-26T18:13:22Z")
LOL, my 2d skills have barely evolved beyond “mommy look what I drew” refrigerator art. I have been exploring grayscale relief work. I agree about the future and the “Jetson’s-esque” made me laugh, the sad part is the kids today may not even know what that means. 🙂 They don’t share the same excitement we had for saturday morning cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![StevePrior](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/steveprior/32/72940_2.png) [@StevePrior](https://community.inventables.com/u/StevePrior)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/9 "2017-05-26T18:19:04Z")
I recently built a bookshelf with someone as his first woodworking project and wanted to do something nice to sign the work. So I used the X-Carve to carve a recess on the bottom of a shelf, then carved a fitting inlay piece out of a different (lighter colored) piece of wood. Then both of us signed our names on a piece of paper, I photographed that, cleaned it up a little in Gimp (Photoshop clone) and then used my cheap laser engraver to engrave the signatures on the inlay piece, then glued that into place under the shelf. While I do have a branding iron with just my name on it that I’ve used for other projects, the method above made it easy to do the one off signature of a guest woodworker. ---
**Author:** ![MikePotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MikePotter](https://community.inventables.com/u/MikePotter)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/10 "2017-05-26T18:23:47Z")
That gives me a few ideas, including using resin as a infil. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/12 "2017-05-26T18:52:07Z")
Lol, I have one of those stories. It was acrylic displays. makes me sick thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![KaseyHellawell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/kaseyhellawell/32/44184_2.png) [@KaseyHellawell](https://community.inventables.com/u/KaseyHellawell)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/13 "2017-05-27T11:54:22Z")
I use a stamp ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/uploads/inventables/original/3X/8/b/8bb684da7fae82dfdb6907331f8b51c2e4e6e263.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JeremySimmons](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jeremysimmons/32/68212_2.png) [@JeremySimmons](https://community.inventables.com/u/JeremySimmons)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 6:03am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/14 "2017-05-28T06:03:56Z")
But did you make the stamp? Do you make the backs of your customers stamps? With a smaller stamp? ---
**Author:** ![KaseyHellawell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/kaseyhellawell/32/44184_2.png) [@KaseyHellawell](https://community.inventables.com/u/KaseyHellawell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/15 "2017-05-28T13:23:03Z")
Yeah I made the stamp ---
**Author:** ![KaseyHellawell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/kaseyhellawell/32/44184_2.png) [@KaseyHellawell](https://community.inventables.com/u/KaseyHellawell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/17 "2017-05-28T13:36:12Z")
Linoleum I believe it was labeled speedball or something. Amazon.ca had it it worked great. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Leach](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/bill_leach/32/79242_2.png) [@Bill\_Leach](https://community.inventables.com/u/Bill_Leach)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/18 "2017-05-28T23:29:41Z")
I sign my guitar bodies with my laser at the bottom of a pick up route. ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/uploads/inventables/original/3X/3/c/3c133892f09b7aa4f5147ff1b919583e9ce13631.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![JkWestphal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jkwestphal/32/53751_2.png) [@JkWestphal](https://community.inventables.com/u/JkWestphal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/20 "2017-05-29T02:13:22Z")
![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/uploads/inventables/original/3X/7/6/76ee3cbcd8009ba06b385858f6214d04808a0359.jpg) Either I engrave my line into a piece or I also have a brass branding iron that my sister got me from Rockler about 20 years ago after a table I made wound up in Jesse Ventura’s house without any identifying marks. I recognized it and was able to get my ID on it in the end. Interestingly enough I have a project on the bench right now that has some of the same wood used in that table in it. ---
**Author:** ![ReubenEmmanuelBailey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/reubenemmanuelbailey/32/32297_2.png) [@ReubenEmmanuelBailey](https://community.inventables.com/u/ReubenEmmanuelBailey)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/21 "2017-06-05T19:10:45Z")
On the back of a sign I am working on: ![](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex009/uploads/inventables/original/3X/d/5/d51f730a7c422364caacda2d8abdd07d9f816e12.JPG) Here is the front with the fish : ![](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex009/uploads/inventables/original/3X/5/9/5984079386b2301fc4f7591d59eb2fff0763f9c3.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![JeremySimmons](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jeremysimmons/32/68212_2.png) [@JeremySimmons](https://community.inventables.com/u/JeremySimmons)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/22 "2017-06-05T19:50:23Z")
+1 for Creative Commons attribution! ---
**Author:** ![KaseyHellawell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/kaseyhellawell/32/44184_2.png) [@KaseyHellawell](https://community.inventables.com/u/KaseyHellawell)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/23 "2017-07-21T18:17:21Z")
I know this is an old thread but I didn’t want to open a new one just for the question. I know I got a stamp and I stamp only gifts and items I make for charity events etc… But how many of you guy’s stamp the work you sell to customers? Is it right to toss your name on the back of a sign? I’ve always been hesitant to do it, as I was never sure how the customer would feel having paid money and having my logo on the back of it. ---
**Author:** ![StevePrior](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/steveprior/32/72940_2.png) [@StevePrior](https://community.inventables.com/u/StevePrior)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/24 "2017-07-21T18:22:28Z")
Actually you’ve got it a bit wrong, the customers don’t object to a signature, they practically insist on it! ---
**Author:** ![KaseyHellawell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/kaseyhellawell/32/44184_2.png) [@KaseyHellawell](https://community.inventables.com/u/KaseyHellawell)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/sign-your-work/38172/27 "2017-07-22T04:03:28Z")
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