Wood Branding Irons

Make a Lasting Impression - Custom Wood Branding Irons.

Whether you're a hobbyist or a professional, our fully custom wood branding irons provide the perfect way to add your signature touch. Choose from flame-heated for a timeless look, or electrically heated perfect for high-volume work. 

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Making Legacies One Brand at a Time

Create a Professional & Permanent Mark. Custom Wood Branding Irons, Made to Order with Your Logo.

Choose from Traditional Flame-Heated or Modern Electric Heating.

  • Complete Customization

    Upload any logo, artwork, or design. Perfect for artisans, woodworkers, and businesses.

  • Superior Qualtiy

    Handcrafted for exceptional detail and durability. The Best Quality Since 1920.

  • Two Heating Options

    Select the perfect tool for your workflow: Flame-Heated or Electric.

The Customization Process: How It Works

  • Step 1: Upload Your Design Easily submit your logo, text, or artwork during the customization process. We handle all file types.
  • Step 2: Choose Your Heating Type Select Flame-Heated for portable, rustic use, or Electric for consistent heat and temperature control.
  • Step 3: Receive Your Proof Our experts will send you a digital proof for your approval before manufacturing begins.
  • Step 4: Mark Your Wood! Your custom iron is quickly manufactured and shipped, ready to create beautiful, permanent marks.

Why Our Wood Branding Irons are Superior (Since 1920)

We don't just make branding irons — we forge legacies. For over a century, our family-run workshop has specialized in creating tools that deliver crisp, clear, and consistent impressions, project after project.

  • Unmatched Detail: Using high-precision machining, we capture the finest lines and most intricate details of your logo.
  • Deep Engraving: Our dies are cut deeper than standard, ensuring the background metal never touches your wood, eliminating smudging and guaranteeing a clean burn.
  • Premium Materials: Crafted from solid brass to stainless steel (depending on size/spec), designed to withstand years of extreme heat and use.

Choose Your Heating Method: Flame vs. Electric

1. Traditional Flame-Heated Branding Irons

  • Best For: Portability, occasional use, and a classic, rustic feel.
  • Key Features: Attached to a rugged steel handle. Easily heated using an open flame (propane torch, stove top).
  • Perfect For: Furniture makers, hobbyists, marking rough-sawn lumber, or use at remote job sites.

2. Modern Electric Branding Irons

  • Best For: High-volume work, speed, and precise, repeatable results.
  • Key Features: Integrated heating element and ergonomic handle. Plugs into a standard outlet.
  • Premium Option: Upgrade to a Temperature Controler for instant, consistent, and fully adjustable heat settings.
  • Perfect For: High-production shops, fine woodworking, or detailed logos requiring exact heat management.
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Standard Relief - Highest level of detail

  • Best For: Extremely high detailed artwork.
  • Key Features: Acid-etched copper offers the highest level of detail, and the lowest price point branding irons.
  • Perfect For: Marking smooth, flat wood like cutting boards and rigid leathers like saddle leather.

Extra Relief - Most versatile

  • Best For: Branding deeply into rough wood, hard dense woods like maple and wine barrels, plastics, all types of leather, foam, coconuts, and more.
  • Key Features: Deeply milled into industrial strength brass. Very good level of detail.
  • Premium Option: Upgrade to Bronze for even more durability and strength. Nearly as strong as steel, better heat transfer.
  • Perfect For: High-production environments, fine woodworking, or detailed logos requiring exact heat management.

Frequently Asked Questions

The best type of branding iron is the one that best addresses your application needs at the price-point you are comfortable with.

The strongest branding irons are made with high strength metals. We offer the strongest in the industry including Brass, Bronze, Steel, and Stainless Steel.

These higher strength metals also have higher Volumetric Thermal Density Capacities. Simply put, they retain heat better making them easier to use and make consistent clear brands.

3 Variables to Branding

There are 3 main variables you are trying to control when using a branding iron.

  • Temperature
  • Pressure
  • Dwell Time

Heating Your Branding Iron

Flame Heated - Heat your branding iron with a strong and hot open flame like a propane torch.

Run the flame over the face of the brand keeping the flame moving so you don't create hot spots.

Once the color of the metal starts to change colors you are probably close to a good branding temperature.

Don't allow the metal to get red hot. That is very near its melting point.

Electrically Heated - Plug your branding iron into an outlet and allow it to heat up for 20-30 minutes. This is sufficient for your branding iron to get to full temperature.

Test The Temperature:

Heat your brand until it makes a good mark on scrap material before branding your work-piece.

If the test brand is too light, heat the branding iron more or hold the dwell-time longer.

If the mark is too dark, let your flame heated brand cool for a short few seconds and re-test. Or, use a shorter dwell-time.

Usually a good sign you have the branding iron at a good branding temperature, pressure, and dwell-time is if you see just a wisp of smoke when branding.

Brand Your Work-Piece

Using the same Temperature, Pressure, Dwell-Time you used on your scrap material go for it. Brand your work-piece.

Overburn

If you do overburn the work-piece you can lightly sand it until the brand pops.

Additional Tips

You can spritz the work-piece with water to reduce the chances of overburn. The water will help quench the unwanted spread of heat.

A Temperature Controller in combination with your electrically heated branding iron is the ideal way to control the temperature. It allows you to dial down the temperature to match your branding application.

The best artwork file for a branding iron is black line-art on a white background.

No color, gray-scale, or shading.

We understand that is not always possible to provide. So, just send us what you have. We can almost always extract clean line-art from most any file.

Our site's upload feature requires file formats pdf, jpg, jpeg, or png with a maximum file size of 3 MB.

You can also email us your artwork to sales@brandnew.net