Poll: Do you sign your work?

[Cameron Wood]

Me, almost never.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Sometimes.

[Tom M King]

Yes, but in the houses I work on, in a place that requires some disassembly and won’t be seen for probably a couple of hundred years, along with a story about current events, and list of guys working on it.

[Tom M King]

I forgot. Date is important too.

[Andrew Hughes]

I don’t need to sign my work I can spot a piece I’ve made anywhere any time.

[Mel Fulks]

I read that the 20 dollar bills were popular with counterfeiters. But they never sign , even their best work. I’ve wondered if a tip
has ever been sent to to the authorities about a counter-fitter, And if the authorities ever find a couple of guy trying to wrangle a big elliptical
counter-top onto a bar. And we all know that the guys working on that are in no mood to be hassled.

[Charlie Jones]

Yes, sometimes..

[Mel Fulks]

Charlie, You topped me , with fewer words . Good work !

[Cameron Wood]

Yes, but in the houses I work on, in a place that requires some disassembly and won’t be seen for probably a couple of hundred years, along with a story about current events, and list of guys working on it.

I sometimes leave artifacts inside of walls. One place that I still work on has a Sawzall that died hanging in a cavity. And of course have found lots of stuff.

[Maurice Mcmurry]

It depends on what I am working on, who the work is for, and whether or not I have been asked to. It is fun to find signatures. Sining a dating the ridge beam is a thing with house carpenter's. Most of the folks I work for can not get into their attics and have had me photograph signatures I have found. Great Grandpa's barn has a neat paragraph about the tornado that took out the predecessor and the crew that came to the rebuilding. I will find the photo of that. When I was doing my apprenticeship there was a bit of a ceremony with the signing of a piece with the date, and some coded notes, then the item gets closed up and the signatures will likely never be seen again (unless someone really tries).

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The family historians are looking for the list of barn raising participants and a transcription.

[roger wiegand]

If it's good enough.

[Jim Becker]

I have a branding iron and use it when I remember to and it's appropriate. When I was cutting things on the CNC for sale, I engraved those things directly when appropriate, such on the bottom of a box or the back of a sign/plaque. And sometimes it's just a Sharpie. Most of the time...it's nothing for general projects, however.

[Rob Luter]

100% of the time. Signed (legibly) and dated. I want whoever finds it decades from now to know where it came from.

[Kent A Bathurst]

100% of the time. Signed (legibly) and dated. I want whoever finds it decades from now to know where it came from.

Me too. Small plaque with my last name and city, who for last name, date. In a non-obvious place. If you knew there was one, in most cases you'd have to spend time hunting for it. I'm not sure the "who for" crowd has ever stumbled across it. Don't tell them.

[Michael Burnside]

Yes when I build for friends/family, no when I'm commissioned.