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    Need advice for engraving turned wooden pen

    I am researching a project I am thinking of doing and I need a little advice. I just returned from my high school 45th class reunion (which was great!) and the call went out for much better door prize donations for the 50th. (You may have seen my other thread abut it) It was suggested that I turn some pens for this project and engrave them with stuff about the 50th reunion. I have 2 obstacles to the plan. 1) I have never turned a pen and 2) I know nothing about engraving. However, I believe these 2 problems can be a learning experience rather than a roadblock. I think I have a path plan for the pen turning, so now I am "turning" my attention to the engraving.
    My feeling is that adding text and possibly a simple logo design to the body of these pens is a simple task for someone with the right equipment and skills. Is this true? And what kind of cost is involved in getting this done? My budget is somewhat limited, as these will be at my expense and donated.

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    01001000011001010110110001101100011011110010000001 00110001100001011100100111001001111001001000000110 10000110111101110111001000000111100101101111011101 010010000001100100011011110110100101101110
    Larry remember Pen shafts are small so logos would need to be small. and probably require someone with a rotary attachment Names how ever can sometime be done with out the rotary . School name and Year might be good or if you know the names of the attendee's that would be even cooler. How many pens would you be looking to do?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bert Kemp View Post
    Larry remember Pen shafts are small so logos would need to be small. and probably require someone with a rotary attachment Names how ever can sometime be done with out the rotary . School name and Year might be good or if you know the names of the attendee's that would be even cooler. How many pens would you be looking to do?
    Bert,
    There were almost 900 in my graduating class, and almost 200 attended the 45th, so I am not making one for everyone! I am planning on making 4 or 5 for door prizes.
    Also, the logo commonly used is very simple it looks something like this:
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    /.........\ (ignore the dots. The editor seems to want to remove spaces before posting)
    It is called a dog Iron and is supposed to represent the cattle brand used at the Dog Iron Ranch where Will Rogers was born. I thought I could put the year 2020 underneath it. I didn't think that would be too hard to do.
    But like I said in my original post I know just about zero when it comes to engraving. So what to me might seem easy, could easily be hard.
    Last edited by Larry Browning; 06-22-2015 at 8:05 PM.
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    Hi Larry,

    I am a pen turner as well as an engraver. If you have a good quality file of the school logo, I can take a look at it and see if I can vectorize it for engraving. If you want to PM me the file I can take a look at it for you and see if it is something I can do for you.
    Last edited by Mike DeRegnaucourt; 06-23-2015 at 11:18 AM.
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    dog brand.jpgSo would this be something like what your looking for
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    aw, c'mon, give these machines a little credit!

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    Kev this logo is not fancy its a brand they put on cattle that is the exact brand what I did, hey we all can do fancy

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    aw, c'mon, give these machines a little credit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike DeRegnaucourt View Post
    Hi Larry,

    I am a pen turner as well as an engraver. If you have a good quality file of the school logo, I can take a look at it and see if I can vectorize it for engraving. If you want to PM me the file I can take a look at it for you and see if it is something I can do for you.
    Thanks so much Mike! I'm not sure what the definition of a good quality file is, But if I could draw it with SketchUp, would that do? I have been searching the internet for a picture or drawing of it and have not found it yet. I haven't found the magic Google phrase yet. I do have some examples in my yearbook and also on a T-shirt I have, so I should be able to reproduce it pretty close.

    I do have a 5 year lead time on this so at this point I am in no real hurry. But I do have to learn how to turn pens, and I am planning on getting started with that pretty soon. I am putting some feelers to try and track down some wood taken for the school building or even a tree on campus to make these pens from. I also have an idea to make a keepsake box or 2 with inlay work as well and I need to learn how to do that too!
    I am always looking for projects that I can learn a new skill from and I think this is a really good one for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bert Kemp View Post
    dog brand.jpgSo would this be something like what your looking for
    Very good Bert! That is the actual Dog Iron Ranch cattle brand. However when it was converted to the school logo it got changed to look more like my keyboard graphic. It sort of looks like a diamond profile with legs. I want to stick with the school logo.
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    The dog iron logo is at the bottom right portion of this image. I am still trying to track down something better.
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    Looks different then whats on the Dog Iron Ranches website but hey it can be done how ever you like it.


    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Browning View Post


    The dog iron logo is at the bottom right portion of this image. I am still trying to track down something better.
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    This is a better one. This is actually what the top of the traditional class ring looks like. Mine got stolen from my house a few years ago. I was sick about it.
    You can see the actual brands influence on this. I think this looks better. The real one looks more like a stick figure of a girl.
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    I agree this is much nicer and very easy to reproduce to engrave.
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    This is a better one. This is actually what the top of the traditional class ring looks like. Mine got stolen from my house a few years ago. I was sick about it.
    You can see the actual brands influence on this. I think this looks better. The real one looks more like a stick figure of a girl.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Browning View Post


    This is a better one. This is actually what the top of the traditional class ring looks like. Mine got stolen from my house a few years ago. I was sick about it.
    You can see the actual brands influence on this. I think this looks better. The real one looks more like a stick figure of a girl.
    That looks like it would be easy to create a vector image of for engraving.
    Thanks,

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    That should be pretty straight forward to do. I do this fairly regularly. You need to decide whether
    you want to run it vertically like this pict, or horizontally. I personally like it vertically since you can
    make the figure larger. cheers!



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