What better way to show that you made some wooden thingamajig than branding it with your own logo.
I'm currently restoring some old wood chisels and other wood related stuff and always wanted to be able to "put my stamp" on it.
Since I already made my own logo I thought: "Why don't I use this"
Shapeways would have been an alternative, but I wanted to build it myself,... with stuff I had laying around.
The first version was made pretty quick and had all the major compnents.
I used an old metal stud I had laying around, cut it, sanded it, drilled it, threaded it and finally made a handle for it. Not to mention the etching part.
And then after some testing I found that I had to horizontaly flip the stencil (duh).