Handle Logo Inlay

[Pressure-Welder]

Hello all, I started making custom knives in 1994. I have been away from it for a few years, however I'm going to be getting back into it shortly for friends and family in my "spare time".

I am thinking about doing a small run, 20-30 identical knives for my group of co-workers. I am thinking about insetting the company logo into the handle. I'm wondering how to go about this. Getting an aprox .5" x 1.25" logo made so I can inset it and fill it over. Anybody have a company in mind that can make such a logo in painted plastic. Or even silver etc. Thanks for looking!!

 

[john april]

i have not heard of that but most trophy shops do engraving.

 

[DAMNENG]

Have you consider having the handles laser engraved?

 

[Tom Lewis]

I use a scroll saw to cut out the picture and then use turquoise inlace from Crafts Supply to fill in.

 

[ten-six]

Have you thought about contacting a company that makes lapel pins? A lapel pin with the protrusions cut off the back sounds like just what you want.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Several ways:
If you are inlaying a medallion ( logo on a shaped piece of metal) use a template and a micro-router. A parser is the old school version of the same thing.
If you have access to a small CNC router, you can set it to cut the exact pocket.
A laser can cut the pocket sides and cut lines that make removing the extra wood simple.

The worst way to do it is by hand. For a one-off, it will work if you are experienced with a flex shaft and small carbide burrs, but it is extremely hard to get an exact fit by hand 30 times in a row.

 

[Randydb]

Alex balatsky makes custom pins. Not sure what your logo is but he might be able to do something like that. https://www.facebook.com/custommosaicpins/

 

[Sam Dean]

Contact a company like Mental Co and have them print you handle material with the logo already there. https://mentalco.myshopify.com/collections/pre-order

I heard somewhere (probably facebook) about a person that 3D prints a base, then fills with an acrylic resin to make handle slabs. That could also be done with a logo.

 

[timos-]

You might also consider a stencil for etching, you could etch the logo on the blade or maybe in the butt cap of the handle.