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Steel Hand Stamps

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Steel Hand Stamps

Durable Technologies specializes in crafting high-quality steel hand stamps tailored to meet your specific part marking needs. Our expert manufacturing process ensures precision and durability, resulting in heavy-duty steel hand stamps designed to deliver an extended service life.

Whether you require custom specifications or standard designs, our products guarantee exceptional performance and longevity, making them ideal for a wide range of industrial applications.

What makes Durable Technologies' hand stamps different?

Crafted from a specialized grade of cold-forged tool steel known for its exceptional resilience, our hand stamps are engineered to withstand the rigors of continuous use. Designed to resist spalling and mushrooming, these meticulously crafted tools ensure consistent and precise marking while maintaining their integrity over extended periods.

With their superior durability, our hand stamps provide an unparalleled service life, offering reliability and performance that surpass industry standards. Whether tackling heavy-duty applications or intricate marking tasks, our hand stamps stand as a testament to quality craftsmanship and enduring functionality.

What types of hand stamp designs are available?

Simple or complex text or logos and designs made to order, including trademarks and maker's marks. Sizes range from tiny steel hand stamps to mark jewelry to large steel hand stamps to mark steel slabs. Characters can be sharp face, low-stress full (round) characters, low-stress dot characters, or customized to your specific marking requirements.

What are the most common uses for hand stamps?

Durable hand stamps can be made for marking on flat, curved, concave or convex surfaces - for hand stamping part numbers, patent numbers, trade names, trademarks, special lettering or other data required to permanently identify a part or material.

There are a wide variety of allocations for hand stamps including the following.

Welder identification hand stamps are hand stamps that are used to identify the work of a specific welder. The marks are often made in the field and need to stand up to harsh, industrial environments. It is essential that the marks are both easy to make and easy to read because they are typically referenced during inspections.

Tool makers mark's have traditionally played an important role in the manufacturing process; these marks identified the maker of the tool and stood as a permanent promise of quality and workmanship. Whether it be five years or one hundred years after the tool was made, the makers mark was sometimes the only way to identify where a tool originated.

The ATF now requires the company name and location on many firearm components. Hand stamps are ideal for marking low-volume production firearm parts.

For companies that have been certified by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the API quality stamp is a mark of pride and a commitment to quality. We manufacture a line of APIQ steel stamps to help manufacturers easily apply the APIQ logo.

Learn more about hand stamp applications on our blog.

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Can I get custom hand stamps?

Durable Technologies' steel stamps and marking dies are custom-engineered for identifying industrial products. Every die blank is machined to the user's specifications. Durable’s custom dies satisfy any user requirement for marking machines, punch presses, press brakes, and other machines. 

What can be customized?

  • Sizes of the shank, characters, or graphic
  • Design and graphics style
  • Character number, font, and size

Click on any of the links to the right for more information on our line of Steel Hand Stamps. You can also contact us now to speak with someone in Sales.

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Proper marking technique using hand stamps

  1. Start with a solid surface to work on
  2. Pick the right hammer
  3. Use the right force
  4. Get set
  5. Make your mark

Learn the details of a correct hand stamp mark here to make your best mark every time.

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Hand stamp success stories

C&C Metals, located in West Boylston, MA, had a problem. How would they direct part mark the end of a very expensive custom ship drive shaft and get it just right every time? Read their story here.

Oowee Products of Asheville, NC creates custom, hand-crafted, leather sleeves for mugs and other beer accessories. They were looking for a custom hand stamp letter set and that's where Durable Technologies came in. Read the story here.

Sharrow Lifting Products manufactures and sells a full line of lifting slings, rigging equipment, tie-down equipment, and other specialty lifting devices. When their old hand stamps started to chip and pieces were flying off the stamp when hit they knew they needed to find a better solution fast. Read their story here.

Hand stamp accessories available:

Download the Hand Stamp Symbols Chart
Traditional Industrial Part Marking Guide
Download the Marking Standards Guide

Hand Stamps on our Blog

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The Evolution of Industrial Marking Solutions: From Hand Stamps to High-Tech Marking Systems

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American Petroleum Institute Quality (APIQ) Hand Stamps

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Making a Blacksmith Touchmark

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