Branding Irons
Leave your mark on your woodworking creations or products with one of our custom branding irons. Branding is a great way to leave a permanent impression on wood and a variety of other materials for:
- Marking your work/products with your signature, logo, or contact details
- Adding decorative marks, labels or pictures to products
- Promotional branding of wooden gifts, toys and cutting boards
- Security labelling
Artwork
Our branding irons are CNC machined from a solid block of brass using a very fine cutter. We can include almost any text or graphics that you would like on your branding iron but here are a few guidelines:
- Simple fonts can usually be reproduced down to 3mm high. We can go smaller in some applications and more complex fonts will need to be larger.
- We recommend keeping lines at least 0.3mm thick so they come out clearly when branded.
- Where possible it is best to have black text/lines on a white background, as white text on a black background can tend to darken during branding.
- Gaps between branded objects (letters, lines etc) need to be at least 0.3mm in order to remain a gap when branded.
- Black and white pictures, symbols and logos can be incorporated on the branding iron.
If you are unsure if your logo is suitable for branding, just email us a copy and we will let you know if we can make it, or recommend any changes that may be required.
A .pdf or .eps file is ideal or a high resolution jpg (3000 to 4000 pixels wide) will also work well. If you don't have any of these formats just send through what you have and we should be able to work from it.
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As well as solid wood, a range of other materials can be branded. Some such as bamboo board and MDF will brand with very similar results to solid wood. Others such as plastic, leather and cork require a lower temperature to brand. This can be achieved with our traditional branding irons by simply not heating the brand for as long, while our electric branding irons require a dimmer controller to reduce the operating temperature (only the 40W to 200W irons are suitable for dimmer control, not the 300W to 500W ones). Our electric branding irons are also great for branding the white drinking coconuts that cocktails are served in for bars, resorts, weddings and corporate events. Below are a few examples of brands on different materials.
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Traditional or Electric
We produce both electric branding irons and traditional branding irons. The electric branding irons use a soldering iron to generate the heat, whereas the traditional branding irons can be heated using a blowtorch or gas burner.
Both types of branding iron are precision machined from a solid brass block and both will produce the same impression. The electric branding irons are good where large numbers of parts are being branded at one time, as they stay hot without having to be returned to a flame. The traditional branding irons are cheaper than the electric ones and great for branding a few parts at a time.
We have several standard size branding irons, however we can create brands of any size.
We are also introducing several standard branding irons such as our number wheel branding irons. These have the digits 0 to 9 engraved around the circumference of a branding iron and are ideal for stamping serial numbers and date codes into wood and plastic.
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Traditional Branding Iron – 25mm x 40mm (Heat with blowtorch) | AU$290 |
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Traditional Branding Iron – 40mm x 60mm (Heat with blowtorch) | AU$390 |
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Traditional Branding Iron – Custom Size Available up to 100mm x 150mm in standard configuration. Larger specials available on request. |
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Traditional Number Wheel Branding Iron with 16mm high numbers (Heat with blowtorch). Has the numbers 0 to 9 engraved around the circumference. Ideal for branding serial numbers and dates. | AU$480 |
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Sievert Powerjet 2135 Blowtorch. Screws directly onto the top of a Primus 0.34kg gas bottle (see below). Suitable for heating our traditional branding irons upto a size of 60mm x 60mm. | Sold Out |
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Primus 0.34kg refillable gas bottle. Suits Sievert Powerjet 2135 Blowtorch (see above). These can be refilled at most places that refill BBQ gas bottles and can work out a bit cheaper than the disposable bottles in the long run. | Sold Out |
Price List for Electric Branding Irons
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Electric Branding Iron Insert — 30mm x 20mm or 25mm x 25mm to suit 9.5mm 80W Soldering Iron (Not Included – See Below) | AU$220 |
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Electric Branding Iron Insert — 40mm x 25mm or 32mm x 32mm to suit 12.7mm 120W Branding Iron (Not Included – See Below) | AU$260 |
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Electric Branding Iron Insert — 40mm x 40mm or 65mm x 16mm to suit 16mm 175W Branding Iron (Not Included — See Below) | AU$300 |
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Electric Branding Iron Insert — 75mm x 22mm or 60mm x 40mm or 50mm x 50mm to suit 20mm 200W Branding Iron (Not Included – See Below) | AU$350 |
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Electric Branding Iron Insert — Custom Size The above are just a sample of the sizes we can make, for specific sizes to suit your logo shape or application, please contact us. |
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Electric Number Wheel Branding Iron Insert with 16mm high numbers. Has the numbers 0 to 9 engraved around the circumference. Ideal for branding serial numbers and dates. To suit 20mm 200W Soldering Iron (Not Included — See Below) | AU$480 |
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1/4" 40W Weller Electric Soldering Iron | AU$100 |
| 3/8" 80W Weller Electric Soldering Iron | AU$120 | |
| 13mm 120W Weller Electric Branding Iron | AU$260 | |
| 16mm 175W Weller Electric Branding Iron | AU$290 | |
| 20mm 200W Weller Electric Branding Iron | AU$350 | |
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300W Warren and Brown Electric Soldering Iron | AU$240 |
| 400W Warren and Brown Electric Soldering Iron | AU$310 | |
| 500W Warren and Brown Electric Soldering Iron | AU$340 | |
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Heavy Duty, 600W Electric Branding Iron. Built around industrial components and designed to be repairable. These feature a full digital temperature controller which can be set between 50 and 440deg, providing fast heatup/recovery and a stable temperature for consistent results in a wide range of timbers. Also ideal for lower temperature branding of more sensitive materials (cork, leather, some plastics, etc.) | AU$1650 |
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500W Variac. Can be used with our electric branding irons up to 200W to run the branding irons at reduced temperatures. Great for branding plastic, leather and other delicate materials. | AU$280 |
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Press Drill Mounting Bracket. Allows our electric branding irons to be mounted in a drill press with a 13mm or larger chuck. Great for repetitive branding on flat products giving more consistent results. Small suits 40W and 80W irons, large suits 120W, 175W and 200W irons (sold separately). | Small - Currently Unavailabe |
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Mini Press Assembly. A complete press assembly for mounting our electric branding irons in. Similar to above, but doesn't require separate drill press, and brand can't rotate as not mounted in drill chuck. Small suits 40W and 80W irons, large suits 120W, 175W and 200W irons (sold separately). | Small - AU$210 |
| Large - AU$210 |
Ordering
To order one of these branding irons or to get a quote for a custom size just email us the following:
- A high definition, black and white image (or vector artwork) of the logo you would like on your branding iron (see Artwork section for file formats)
- The required dimensions of the brand
- The type of branding iron you would like (electric or traditional)
- Your name and address (to calculate postage costs)
We will send you back a quote including payment instructions and a mockup of what the brand will look like. Turnaround times are normally within 2 to 3 weeks of receiving payment. If you are in a hurry for you're branding iron faster turnarounds are available, contact us for pricing.
If computers aren't your thing we can also create your logo based on a sketch or drawing as an additional service.
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