Originally Posted by rootboy

True enough. To a point. I've got some vintage hand planes that were very tastefully stamped, or engraved, by the owner, who obviously took pride in his tools and did the job right. My beef is with that obnoxious trend, maybe from the sixties, when that ubiquitous electric buzzer became available and people started defacing tools that were "old" even then, by scribbling their social security number on them. And everything else they could grab, it seems. Not a trend I'm fond of, obviously, like that hub pictured above. It can be done well, however. And I'll wager Lenton's father's tools were done well.