Making a Wood & Leather Branding Iron 

I've been thinking about buying a branding iron... Not now! Handily i've got all the tools to make my own, and thanks to you, now have the necessary knowledge too. You just saved me $200 which makes you entirely awesome!

This is a valuable addition to my woodwork collection ru-vid.comUgkxkNYRBJuiJ6EwD-tQSAlxg0eFKsnR2cgz I still will rate this woodwork plan as the best in my reference library. It always seem to stand out from the rest whenever you go through the library. This is a masterpiece.

Will Matthew's. You are the definition of badass/kickass. You unviel the Secret to making a stamp. This is way cool.

That's sweet! That huge piece of brass must take a long time to heat! Made one for myself in much the same way a few years back, but with a piece of copper about quarter the size.

Nice. Just starting to do a little metal work on my CNC. It's completely different than wood. I need to get a buffing wheel for my grinder. Looks great. Thanks for sharing.

8:07 - I thought it was the fire alarm at first. Great video. Great tool to brand your creations!

I have watched a ton of videos about metal work and a lot of times by the end I can tell those projects are just a little more than what my skill set could accomplish but this video is not one of those. Great job! You made it clear and easy to understand each step and I feel like this is something I can do.

That is so good thanks - I had been trying to think of how to build material up to make the mark - now I realise a touch of carbide to remove material is the way to go.

Love the design. Your initials really lend themselves to the shape/style, it looks really cool!

Great video! Very clear and concise, step by step instructions.

Will Matthews you could have made the block smaller, if it was smaller it heated faster. You have to spend a lot of energy to heat it.

Well done! Skill, Tools, Presentation and Music in equal proportions..❣😊

This reminds me so much of myself it's not even funny! Just trial and error untill you get it done! Who needs fancy tools!? 👍😊

Good idea. Love the use of the Dremel.

Burned in handle, old school and wonderful to see!

Loved the music that went with it. Really made it that much better. Great video!

Nice work man. Loved the fact that it was 100% handmade without using a CNC. My logo would have been a pain in the ass to manually carve out haha.

Great job with the branding iron! I love how simple your logo is! I plan to make one soon!

Very good! Lot of work! Thank you.

Nice looking branding iron.

Nice work! Thorough. I need that belt sander. Not that id use it much..its just cool.

Really appreciate the time lapse intro. Wish more videos did this.

Cool video! I need to think about making myself one of these. Couple of things: first, what was the point of heating the threaded rod when mounting it to the handle? Secondly, I'd use caution heating up threaded rod. the zinc coating on those suckers produces toxic fumes when heated hot enough. All in all, excellent craftsmanship!

Thanks for the vid. New and up an comming Chippy myself need the helps. And great way to get the brand seen

Absolutely fabulous! I would agree with some other comments to make the body thinner for quicker heating.

I've made a couple brands from scratch for my local pool and a couple projects to help my son. I found that keeping the rotary tool stationary and instead moving the brand around the bit works surprisingly well (kind of a manual CNC). I can move the brand along a straight edge under the cutter for those nice straight lines. You can also make a quick curved jig out of 1/8" hardboard. Nice work.

lol at the smoke alarm at the end. amazing job dude.

Really awesome build, looking forward to seeing more.

Awesome build....cheers

That's a really nice brand that you made , if you made it only 1/2'' thick it wont take so long to heat up. Right now it's a giant heat sink . Not hating on this its a thing of art and beautiful !

This is awesome! Thanks for the inspiration

What’s the copper winding for? Is that the help dissipate the heat or is it so you can also connect a positive and negative DC battery or 110 V to electrically heat it?

necessary. I can do it too. Thanks for sharing. greetings from Turkey🤝👋

Super cool!!

Nicely done! What’s the name of the book you referenced to when you drilled and tapped that hole?

Very very very good!!!!!!!!

very cool video and music too..

Entertaining video and nice tool to pass on to your offspring.great job!!!

I like the idea of a brand for wood and leather. What purpose did the copper wire around the threaded handle serve? All it will do is bring heat to the handle more quickly.

so cool!!!! will have to make me one soon!!! working on my makers mark now

I wanted to make one of these until I saw the end of the video. I would definitely go "brand-crazy" if I had one of these! Great work and great video. (no music next time though)

Idk why, but this video inspired me to finally design my own logo, and I just did.... Odd that I didn't come up with it sooner

Fantastic!!!

Excellent job at carving with a Dremel. Once I bought my Foredom Flexshaft - I never went back to a dremel - being able to control spin speed with my foot control allows for much finer carving of metal details. Cool video!! FYI - you can etch brass and copper with PCB board etchant - might have been another interesting way to do the logo.

Now, I´m going to mark this an that. My car, my dog, my wife...hahaha very cool. P.S. I´m dying to have a workshop like yours, have everything I would like to have. Amazing job.

very nice -congratulations

Awesome video. Rad to see a small RU-vidr getting alot of success for quality entertaining content.

Gorgeous! Very impressive.

My nana is Melody Wilson. I've been messing around with ideas for my logo for a few months. I came up with this sleek idea a while back. What if I draw 3 vertical lines, a small v at the top of the first two and the opposite between the 2nd and 3rd. MW woodworking. Maybe put a circle around it? I love it! Then I stumble across your channel!😢😂 It's been done. I thought I was so original. Hey, great minds think alike I guess!

Very cool!

Great job on the iron and well done with the video editing!

Looks great. I think cutting it down thinner would make it easier to heat, so you don't have so much thermal mass to heat. You've given me inspiration to make my own! Thanks

Should have cut the iron down to 1/2 an inch then threaded on your handle. It might have heated in 90 seconds and had lots of gas to mark a nice brand. I'm going to make one this weekend because of your cool vid. Thanks!👍

Wow, so intelligent and smart lol. Thanks!

I have thought about making this myself earlier but i purchased two set for under $50 and saved me 10+ hours...

très bon boulot, chapeau, vous avez pas mal de matos aussi, et savoir faire !

Cut that billet into about 1/2" plugs and you can make about 5 of these! :) Thanks for sharing. Nice work.

i love your videos!

I think your heating problem is because of how big that chunk of metal is. I do love the simplicity though. Good Job!

it was very well made,I do not know anything about branding irons,but did the head of the brass branded need to be so thick?I would have thought it would have conducted heat more efficiently and quicker had it not been so thick,never the less it was well made,and a good vidio,gets my thumbs up.

Awesome work! i would put an ironsight on, so you always get the right angle

Great video I hope your channel takes off so that people get to see more great videos like this one.

The copper added is a nice little touch that should act as a heatsink and draw heat away from the upper part of the rod. Gj.

Wow!!!!! You deserve waaaaaay more subs. The filming is great as well !

Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing. But why is the branding iron material so thick? The material is very conductive. So the heat goes from the surface that you heat up inside and is therefore cooling down the surface.. I'd make it max 1 cm thicker than the deepest engravement spot.

Great craftsmanship, just watched all of your videos. Glad I stumbled upon your channel. Aloha!

Love the Soundtrack!

Woooooo I know it's farther than it looks but let's keep that flame away from the flammable can at 5:54. :) Thanks for sharing your process.

Very nice indeed.

Very good in brass . Easier to make . I’m doing one for me . Regards ,Beni from Brazil.

Did you use a Dremel or similar tool to carve the brass? What bits did you use?

Wouldn't you have way more precision control if the Dremel was on a fixed post? To enable handling the piece against the bit to carve close to the lines? The Dremel should be stationary.

Very impressive!

OK, the ad before I saw this was for a FormLabs 3D printer. A great combination of old and new would be to do a computer design of a logo, print it in some kind of plastic that will burn out cleanly, then invest and cast that in metal. Hmmmmmmm. I might just do exactly that someday.

Wooooooooow, this is a Man´s World; you are the Man. Amazing work, many thanks for share.

Nice work...good look

This is amazing! Your videos have such a high quality to them. I hope in the future that you become a huge channel!

Great video sir

Why did you use brass round stock instead of pig iron?

Where do you find the metal and what type of metal is it

Excelente trabajo...¿Que caracteristicas tiene el soplete que has utilizado?. Me parece que puedes graduarlo y lograr el cono azul, desde ya muchas gracias.

.....great video, nice music and congrats for your skills! just wanted to say hello from Brazil! thanks and just subscribed for your channel!

Great video, just wondering that the purpose of adding the coil is at 7:17 ?

What kind of metal did you use? it's brass?

El acero en lamina gruesa es la mejor opción ya que calienta mejor, quedo lindo el trabajo.

What is the shape of the name of the bit used in the drilling, its size in millimeters and stone, and its shape. Do we use any Chinese Minicraft or a model like Dremel? Does the Dremel differentiate if it is American or Mexican?

thanks for the detailed instruction. see you rudolf

Great job!

totally gonna try that

Could you use a cheap harbor freight Forstner bit to remove most of the brass an 1/8" deep? That not to say there is any thing wrong with how you did it.

Oh i need to make one of those

The only problem with one of these in my case is every wooden surface in my shop would be covered in brands. Nice job!

excellent video,bra!! less metal does indeed heat faster, nice ;-)

Good job. I was able to make one that works on 12 volts

I so wanted that fastgrip to set and stick your screwdriver to the block lol

Why heat the threaded rod before putting it in the handle block?

Very good 👍👍

yay i can now brand a man to my cult

Another great job, brother! Forgive my naïveté, but what charts did you refer to about half way through?

Where do you buy your materials? (Leather, Copper, etc.) The more unique stuff?