Your company brand, turned in wood
Most people who end up on this page weren't planning to buy anything. They know me, they've had a look at what I make, and somewhere around here the thought arrives that a branded version might be rather good for the office.
So this page does that thinking out loud. Here's what companies actually order, what it costs per head, and what happens once you say yes.
Nine occasions that work
New starters
A pen on the desk on day one, with the company logo and their name on it if you want. Says considerably more about the place than a tote bag.
Long service
Five years, ten years, twenty. A rollerball engraved with the date, or a desk sign for people who are on video calls all day.
Sales awards
Top performer of the quarter. A pen set with a turned stand makes a better trophy than a trophy, because it gets used.
Promotions
Someone's just stepped up. A desk sign with the new title on it is a small, cheap, surprisingly effective way of marking it.
Client thank-yous
End of a project, renewal signed, or just a good year. An engraved board says thank you rather more convincingly than a bottle of something.
Leaving gifts
Someone good is going. A pen with their name and their years engraved on it, in a box, from the whole team.
Conference gifts
Not for the giveaway table — for the fifteen people you actually wanted to talk to. A shortlist gift beats three hundred branded pens nobody kept.
The video call backdrop
A solid oak or walnut sign with your logo, sized to sit on the shelf behind you. Your whole leadership team, matching, in about six weeks.
Referral thank-yous
Someone sent you work. A pen with your logo on it is a thank-you that keeps introducing you to whoever's on the other side of their desk.
What branded work looks like
Quantities and prices
Pens
Ballpoints are £25, rollerballs £40, mechanical pencils £30, and engraving is included at every quantity. There's no minimum order — one is fine — but the discounts start at ten.
- 10–24 pens: 10% off
- 25–49 pens: 15% off
- 50 or more: 20% off
Thirty ballpoints in oak works out at £637.50. Exotic timbers still carry their supplement if you want something more striking, but most companies take a house timber — oak, walnut or sapele — and they photograph better against a logo anyway.
Signs and boards
The large desk sign is roughly 400 × 200 × 20mm of solid timber: £75 in oak, £85 in walnut. The small desktop version is £30, dropping to £25 each from ten, which is how they're usually bought — a whole team at once.
Engraved end-grain boards start at £95 and are quoted individually, because size and timber move the number about.
Lead times
Thirty pens takes about six weeks. Signs are six to eight. If you have a date — a conference, an awards night, someone's last day — tell me at the start and I'll say honestly whether it's possible.
Four steps, no surprises
Send the logo
A vector file, so SVG, AI, EPS or PDF. A screenshot won't engrave cleanly and I'd rather tell you that now than after.
Approve a proof
I send an image showing exactly how your logo will sit — size, placement, how it wraps. Nothing is cut until you've said yes in writing.
See the first one
On orders of ten or more, I make one, photograph it and send it to you before running the rest. If it's wrong, it's wrong once.
The rest follows
Made, boxed and sent in one delivery. Invoiced on completion with standard terms if your finance team prefers that to a card payment.
Tell me roughly what you're thinking
How many, what for and when you need them. You'll get a proper price and an honest lead time back, usually the same day. No account manager, no minimum spend, and no obligation if the number doesn't work for you.
Ask for a quote