welcome to diyeasycrafts.com how tomake a custom branding logol for any standard wood burning tool.now, i got theidea to make this after buying a set of letter stamps for my wood burning tool.the letter stamps worked absolutely perfectly, they made a decent logo but iwant to craft something that was a little bit more unique. i do a lot ofnautical crafts and i wanted to add a little
woodworking branding irons electric, anchor into the design. i also wanted todesign it so that it would mount onto that same standard wood burning tool.i started on my computer, i created a a couple of different designs, finalized theone that i lwanted and then went to my nephew's machine shop and in borrowed or took apiece of inch-and-a-half brass. you don't
need a big bar like this. you could useany piece of grass or any piece of aluminum. it doesn't have to be thickprobably a quarter-inch-thick would be fine. i also went to a craft store andbought some clear transfer film. i'm going to trace the logo directly ontothe transfer film with a fine tip sharpie marker. the process takes a fewminutes. justtry to be as careful as you can get it as accurate as possible once the logo is completely transferredso that every line is on that transfer film the film can be peeled andattached directly to the brass or aluminum material. the neatthing about using this technique is that
we're going to use a dremel grinder tokind of groove cut all the material and cut away any material that's not thestamp that dremel grinder set on a high-speed will just cut right throughthis film. you can leave the film in place. now we're going to use a variety ofdifferent little tools for the dremel grinder some tools like this one arereally good for getting the straight edges other tools the real small diamondbit tool is great for doing the small slots in between the letters. thisgear shape tool worked out really well for doing the lines in between theletters basically we're gonna start with thedremel tool. this block had a little
weight to it so i didn't even have toput it in a vise or clamp it to the workbench. if you're utilizing asmaller piece of brass or alum you secure it. you don't want itwiggling around too much. just be very carefully, very slowly removed somematerial away from the first letter and then work your way into that line. i did all the outside straight edges first. slowly grind eachone away by using a couple of different strokeswith the dremel pulling away on some going side-to-side on others dependingwhether it a curve or it's a straight line
i'm just following the shape the outlineon that transfer film right now. i'm working at the very bottom of the anchorin the logo and i was very surprised at how fast this whole process, was i meanit really took me one night after work. total of about a hour and a half or two hours . this logo stamp can be used in a variety ofdifferent woodworking projects. now whenever i craftsomething out of wood, i'll be able to heat this up and stanp or burnmy logo right into that project. this is your shape tool and i'mjust cutting a groove in between the
letters you just have to be real carefulif you're going to be using aluminum one of the recommendations my friend jasonnorthguard gave me, was to spray down the tool wd-40 so that the aluminum isless likely to get all gumbed up inside of the tool. i didn't evenneed to do it with the brass it ground down very nicely i'm just slowly creating groves andcutting away any material that is not black from the logo design. you do need agood light and you do need fairly decent eyes but other than that it goes it goespretty quickly almost done now
grinding away that excess material youcan see now that the logo has a little bit of depth cut around it. about 1/ 16 to1/8 of an inch down my original plan was just going to bethe chopped off 1/4" inch then drill and tap the back side but itwas just too much material the heat up especially with a little wood burningtool. i went to my friend jason northguards metalworking shop and he cut theslug down a little bit for me. about a quarter-inch thick. he also did drilland tap the back of it to accommodate a threadedstud. we basically used a bolt and then cut off the head and just sanded itdown a little bit. that's how it's going
to attach to the wood burning tool butthen he went another step and he went over to his band saw and he cut off allthe excess material surrounding the logo. the thought here, is that if wereduce the amount of brass surrounding this logo it will take less lesseffort for that burning tool to heat upsufficiently to burn the wood. again there's nothing difficult aboutthis process you just have to be careful you don't want to cut through yourlogo. as long as you're careful you take your time even even this process really didn'ttake more than 15 minutes
here he sis just working along one edge still working along the side of theanchor and then he's going to come across one end of the of the capital b andagain just removing as much excess material as possible so that we don'tneed that much heat to get this thing up to the desired temperature. the more material you even place longer it'sgoing to take to heat up. he did also grind even a little bit more of the thickness off this piece of brass. he leftit thick right in the center where the threaded work and you see thatthe second .
he did reduce the totalthickness of little bit more just with a disc grinder. this is the finishedproduct i've got a logo, that's mirror image. ijust fliped that over originally on the computer before transfering it to the film.it has a threaded insert and threaded studand once attached that wood burning tool let it heat up for 4 to 5 minutes test it on a piece of scrap wood beforeyou use it on any of one of your finished products. within a few minutes you can burn a beautiful custom logointo all of your wood-burning projects
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