Who turned this?

[Alan Weinberg]

A piece in my collection. Here’s the bottom. Who turned it? “DW”

 

[Steve Tiedman]

@Don Wattenhofer maybe?

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

Those are my initials but I did not turn that. When I sign a project it is "Don W".

 

[Michael Anderson]

I tried to sleuth, but could not find anything. Good example of why you should sign your work with your full name, instead of initials (requisite shoutout to @Tom Gall for that piece of advice he gave me a few years ago).

I’d suggest cross posting on WoW.

Nice piece though.

 

[Sam Fleisher]

WoW?? World of warcraft??

 

[Michael Anderson]

WoW?? World of warcraft??

sometimes. World of Woodturners this time thewows.com

 

[Jon Rista]

I don't know many turners. Have to say though...that spalting!!

 

[Darryl Fective]

I tried to sleuth, but could not find anything. Good example of why you should sign your work with your full name, instead of initials (requisite shoutout to @Tom Gall for that piece of advice he gave me a few years ago).

I try to sign all of mine with my D. Fective logo.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

(requisite shoutout to @Tom Gall for that piece of advice

Pretty easy when your entire name is just 8 letters.

 

[Tom Gall]

Pretty easy when your entire name is just 8 letters.

Yes, but Michael's name is 15 letters ... 3 more than your name.

 

[Michael Anderson]

Pretty easy when your entire name is just 8 letters.

You’re a urologist with presumably solid fine motor skills. I bet you can write pretty small haha

 

[Alan Weinberg]

I’d suggest cross posting on WoW

Done. Good idea.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

I bet you can write pretty small

Yeah but legibility is a different issue. It will look like hieroglyphics!

 

[hockenbery]

Yeah but legibility is a different issue. It will look like hieroglyphics!

I used to write a big readable signature. Around 26-27 years ago Christian Bouchard picked up one of my pieces up and said
“you’ve got this nice piece”, then he turned over and said, “ with this mess on the bottom. Try making your signature as small as you can.”

I said - “no one will be able to read it”

Christian said “they will know who you are.”

Small has worked for me

 

[Webb Willmott]

You’re a urologist with presumably solid fine motor skills. I bet you can write pretty small haha

He’s a urologist, not a proctologist and signing the bottom may not be his style, hehehe.

 

[Michael Anderson]

He’s a urologist, not a proctologist and signing the bottom may not be his style, hehehe.

Bahahaha

 

[Donna Banfield]

I have been accused of writing a short novel on the bottom of my pieces. Name, date, inventory #, species (when I know it), my website (without the dot com), and 'hand made in Derry, NH'. And yes, I can write with my woodburning tip very, very small...with magnifiers.

 

[John K Jordan]

I have been accused of writing a short novel on the bottom of my pieces. Name, date, inventory #, species (when I know it), my website (without the dot com), and 'hand made in Derry, NH'. …

Someone, somewhere, sometime will start wood-burning or laser engraving QR codes on the bottoms of pieces.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Someone, somewhere, sometime will start wood-burning or laser engraving QR codes on the bottoms of pieces.

I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, it's the best way to provide a lot of information about the piece. On the other hand, it feels... wrong. Cold and impersonal, I suppose.

 

[Michael Anderson]

I try to sign all of mine with my D. Fective logo.

Ha! Well, I think that works as well. There is enough evidence out there of "D. Fective" being associated with your name. Unless the internet gets scrubbed, I suspect it would be pretty simple for folks to find out that D. Fective = P.M.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

"D. Fective" being associated with your name.

They may ask for a discount if it’s defective!

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Than D pends on the d count