On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:36:55 -0800, Electric Comet wrote:

I want to mark the things I make so down the road someone will know who
to blame (or praise). I thought go simple and use a permanent marker
but that may be too simple. Carving takes too much time.

What do you do?

For small stuff, I use an archival pen, available at art supply stores.
For the big stuff I use a branding iron and then use the pen to add the
date. Others have epoxied in a new penny for the date.