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Tips on different way to put identification marks on your belongings.
BOYS' LIFE Dec 1980 (v.70#12) pg. 65

Tips for marking your tools for easy identification.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #251 Sep 1984 (v.34#7) pg. 137

Tip on marking your tools with plastic tape for easy identification.
FAMILY HANDYMAN #299 Jun 1989 (v.39#6) pg. 108

Tip on burning your initials into the wooden handle of a tool using nail polish.
FINE HOMEBUILDING #117 Jun-Jul 1998 pg. 28

Tip on using an electric branding iron to "sign" wood crafts.
FINE WOODWORKING #71 Jul-Aug 1988 pg. 8

Tip on rust proofing and marking your steel tools by applying liquid gun bluing.
FINE WOODWORKING #84 Sep-Oct 1990 pg. 18

Tip: Use rubber cement to burn initials into wooden handles of tools.
HANDY ANDY Feb 1981 (v.5#5) pg. 72

Tips on photographing and marking your personal property for identification if it should be stolen.
MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED #661 Jun 1983 (v.79) pg. 86

Perforating stamp personalizes stationery and books.
POPULAR MECHANICS Oct 1981 (v.156#4) pg. 38

Make your mark. Labeling tools or valuables reminds borrowers and aids return of stolen items.
POPULAR MECHANICS Mar 1984 (v.161#3) pg. 118

Hand stamp design, retraced with a woodburning pen, is used to put a woodworker's mark on projects.
WOOD MAGAZINE #96 Apr 1997 (v.14#3) pg. 22

Sign your woodworking projects in brass. Make a round nameplate from etched brass and install it in a shallow recess made with a Forstner bit.
WOOD MAGAZINE #142 Jun-Jul 2002 (v.19#4) pg. 38

Tip shows how to make a name and date stamp from lengths of PVC pipe and metal stamping letters.
WOODWORK #37 Feb 1996 pg. 10

Tip on permanently recessing a circular brass craftsman's nameplate into your wood projects.
WOODWORKER Aug 1991 (v.95#8) pg. 857

Tip: How to etch metal tools with ordinary iodine.
WOODWORKER'S JOURNAL Sep-Oct 1977 (v.1#5) pg. 13

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