I'm very happy with the end result and so is my girlfriend's dad. ![]() We then sent off this file to a blacksmith supply company to do their magic and a few weeks later, a touch mark stamp arrived in the mail. We then sent off this file to a blacksmith supply company to do their magic and a few weeks later, a touch mark stamp arrived in the mail. I couldn't get too complex because this needed to be able to fit on the blade of a knife and be stamped into metal after-all! I then refined and combined the strongest ideas and some typography into a simple, icon-like vector logo using adobe illustrator. He also has a Chestnut tree outside of his smithy in North Carolina, so I took inspiration from that and set to work, making a number of small quick sketches using acorns, chestnut leaves, and his initials "T.C." His favorite poem is "The Village Blacksmith" by Longfellow which begins with the stanza: ![]() We had a touch mark stamp made for him and we recently received it. He had no touchmark to stamp his finished creations (mostly knives and tools) in order to "sign" them, so I took it upon myself to design him a logo.
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