Signature Items

August 11, 2005

What are some of your signature items that you leave in caches? Also, do you leave another item in the cache along with your signature item?

Rdut and Gabwp

3.5k · August 11, 2005

This picture is horribly out of date. I've updated the card a few times since then. But this is my signature card and lighthouse pin.

I leave these in pretty much every cache I go to that can take one (It'd be interesting to know how many people have these in their collection..hmmmm). If I take something out of the cache, though, I'll leave something else along with the card. In other words, to me the card isn't really a trade item.

But that's just me.

Bret

August 11, 2005

These are some of my Sig items, they are made from wood.

I placed a few in my caches, and they were popular at the last event. One of them was made into a TB called Heritage by Rileyfour

Now I need to get back in the shop and make more.

Edited August 11, 2005 by Cruiserdude

August 12, 2005

Took me a goodly while to come up with what I thought was a good sig item - i.e. one that was:

1. fitting with my "globalgirl" moniker

2. is halfway kewl, and...

3. is economical to produce - indeed, ideally in small batches - not having to cough up hundreds of dollars upfront as for minting one's own geocoin

Finally came up with my bitty globalgirl passports with attached glass globe marble:

The bitty passport is handmade and nearly an exact replica of my own passport, complete with U.S. seal watermarking on the pages and a bitty pic reduced from my own passport pic. They come in 3 flavors: just bitty passport, that I drop in most any cache save the smallest micros; passport with attached blue glass globe with green continents, that I drop in caches that I especially like; and the Rolls Royce version: passport with globe with 22k GOLD continents that I drop rarely - (only 2 so far) in my milestone cache finds or as a FTF prize in one of my new cache hides.

Each passport is numbered and you can track them HERE

And finally - to answer your question about trading... seems to me that sig items are not considered trade items - you can take them w/o leaving something if you like. But I generally do leave something if I take a sig item. Also, depending on the druthers of the sig owner, most sig tokens are meant to be kept if you like (many folks have collections), though you can of course move them to a new cache like travel bugs.

In short, no hard 'n fast rules - everybody plays this wondrous game, each in their own personal way. That's what I like best about it.

P.S. Now "Rdut and Gabwp" - not sure WHAT one might make a sig item for THAT moniker!

August 12, 2005

I leave this homemade coin in caches I find.

Hopefully someone will post a link to some pages that specialize in sig items. I have seen the pages, but do not have the link here at work.

August 12, 2005

wow! I like the Gecko! I also like the passport and the points. hmmmm, what will ours be?? We are both trapshooters, so maybe something in that thought process!

August 12, 2005

I have some frogs for tiny caches that I got at card and party factory and on pay day I am going to get these really cool cheap keychain whistles from the CVS pharmacy that are 3 for .99 cents.

2.4k · August 12, 2005

Hopefully someone will post a link to some pages that specialize in sig items. I have seen the pages, but do not have the link here at work.

Here's a link to Team FISUR's sig-items page -- is this the one you were thinking of?

August 12, 2005

Wow.

That link to the sig items was worth the price of admission!

August 12, 2005

I have a Maryland Crab Pin as a signature item.

Edited August 12, 2005 by Baxter-MD

August 12, 2005

I make hiking sticks with a frog and a number burned into them so I can track them. I hide them away from caches I find and leave a special card for the next cachers to find them.(there's not always a place near the cache). So far I've given out 42 sticks, each complete with rubber tip and rawhide wristband, finished in 5 coats of urethane. Tried to send a pic--hope it goes through.

4.2k · August 13, 2005

GlobalGirl - very kewl indeed.

I've gone through a number of things like my shotglass:

Wooden nickels:

Bottle openers and hand-cut (with plasma cutter) "G-Spots" :lol:

Also do a First To Find version:

(The KHB is for Kealia & Hula Bum - when my wife and I cache together and find a REALLY cool spot)

August 13, 2005

Hopefully someone will post a link to some pages that specialize in sig items. I have seen the pages, but do not have the link here at work.

Here's a link to Team FISUR's sig-items page -- is this the one you were thinking of?

Yep, that's the link.

August 15, 2005

OUr very first SIg item is a homeade card! YUea. We designed them and put bottle caps on them like a Team "Icon" lol.

Team Michicon

August 16, 2005

For me I used Monopoly Money with a Label on the back with my:

USername

Caching SInce:

City:

Email

Team MichiCon

August 16, 2005

I don't know if I should call these signature items, but they actually might be, or become.

First, I repeatedly missed some gloves or at least a hiking staff - bushwhacking is just not enjoyable with bare hands. Second, I don't think that I would be a good cache maintainer, so I plan to rather NOT have hides any time soon. Third, I still want to put my $.02 into the bowl.

Combining those three I decided to leave CacherGloves in "addition" to any trade or TNLN

CacherGloves%23004.jpg

Jan

August 16, 2005

Those gloves are great -- I would certainly love to find a pair in a cache!

August 16, 2005

I just got done putting the finishing touches on my girlfriends signature item. Behold the Amputated Spoon Keychains.

They each come in a little zip bag with a piece of paper explaining what it is and who left it.

Oh yes, my signature item is a plastic spork that says sporkboy was here. For micros I have something very similar to my avatar laminated in clear contact paper.

Edited August 16, 2005 by sporkboy

August 24, 2005

I just received my signature item in the mail this week! Had some poker chips done up by a company I found online. Made a logo and emailed it to them and 1 1/2 weeks later it arrived. Seemed like they'd be very durable and easy to take along when geocaching.

Chris of Chris-N-Pam

September 16, 2005

I would appreciate hearing about anyone else who uses an OWL in any form of signature item. I love owls and have two or three different sig items that incorportate an owl. (See my avatar.)

I've already traded for one of Galahad's hand-carved owls.

I'd like to hear of any others so I can collect the complete set.

--SirGerald

September 18, 2005

My son and I make Sculpey eTrex Yellow beads and then macrame them onto lanyard clips to make zipper pulls. That's become our sig item. Our favorite sig item we've found so far is one of Victory Mike's chainmail keychains. My son STILL waxes rhapsodic about how he MET VICTORY MIKE, REALLY I DID!! (said loudly and with big goofy little-boy grin) We met him at a MiGO event, and it was like meeting a hero.

2.6k · September 18, 2005

I just got done putting the finishing touches on my girlfriends signature item. Behold the Amputated Spoon Keychains.

Ohmigosh, Sporky! Those amputated spoons are dead cool. Too cool for sig items.

Please tell me you've released a few as TB's...?

1.1k · September 18, 2005

This picture is horribly out of date. I've updated the card a few times since then. But this is my signature card and lighthouse pin.

I leave these in pretty much every cache I go to that can take one (It'd be interesting to know how many people have these in their collection..hmmmm). If I take something out of the cache, though, I'll leave something else along with the card. In other words, to me the card isn't really a trade item.

But that's just me.

Bret

I found/took one of those lighthouse pins in a cache that I found...I collect lapel pins so when I saw that signiture card with the pin on it, I was amazed

My signiture item is currently a Guide magazine that I sign my name on, but here not to long I will be getting some lapel pins with Super_Nate on them.

September 19, 2005

I think i will probably use a pic i drew and print a bunch and laminate them the pic is a deerhead hence my name looks pretty cool plan on having a coin made to

2.1k · September 19, 2005

September 19, 2005

Our daughter (the Homing Pigeon) came up with the idea of the personalized keyrings over the summer. We have been using the middle rubber ducky keyring. But when she started caching under her own name it was hard finding something with a pigeon or a target on it. So she brain stormed these neat keyrings to leave.

Edited September 19, 2005 by Lehigh Mafia

2k · September 19, 2005

I collect sig items and people send me theirs in trade for mine. I will tell you that people are so creative! Mine that I currently use are a wooden nickel, and a card that says "You've Been Cached!" by Ladycacher and Boys.

September 19, 2005

I've always liked the idea of folding cubes so though they would make a good sig item. Main problem is that it doesn't fit into a lot of caches these days.

3.5k · September 19, 2005

I've always liked the idea of folding cubes so though they would make a good sig item. Main problem is that it doesn't fit into a lot of caches these days.

Freakin' Sweeeet.

I bought a bunch of little wooden cubes from Hobby Lobby a few years ago to try to make one of those to put in a cache. I finally figured out how to position all the cubes but never knew what to cover them with.

Very Nice!

Bret

September 19, 2005

I use my geolens - 6cm lens from glass in leather case with sanding my logo and number for tracking at http://geolens.bilak.sk - also look to my gallery.

September 19, 2005

Igi, that could be the coolest sig item I've ever seen.

September 26, 2005

I just got done putting the finishing touches on my girlfriends signature item. Behold the Amputated Spoon Keychains.

Ohmigosh, Sporky! Those amputated spoons are dead cool. Too cool for sig items.

Please tell me you've released a few as TB's...?

We haven't released any as travel bugs as of yet. I'd worry about them getting snagged up though. I think we'd rather people just find them and use them. Glad you like them though.

We did see another variation on the spoon keychains this weekend at an art show. Instead of drilling a hole the metal was bent over on itself to secure the key ring. This gets around the limitation of how thick a handle needs to be and off center drilling. Anyway I have all of the other ends of the spoons and forks so I'll be playing with that technique.

PS Don't call me Sporky

Edited September 26, 2005 by sporkboy

1.4k · September 26, 2005

Here's my collection

2.6k · September 26, 2005

PS Don't call me Sporky

Well, I considered calling you "boy," but that seemed a little familiar.

October 1, 2005

elgecko, How did you make your homemade geo coin? It's awesome!

October 1, 2005

Igi, that could be the coolest sig item I've ever seen.

Indeedy they ARE purely wondrous BP - I just got a most luscious trio of them all the way from Slovakia! Traded them for a gaggle of my bitty globalgirl passport and globes:

They're trackable HERE

Thanks for the trade Igi, I'm still catching up from my geoadventures in the Great Alaska Cache and Dash, and will be dropping the globes on a snail here shortly.

5.3k · October 1, 2005

Julie and I use Buttons made by Bumble buttons

The prices are very good and you do not have to order very many if you want to design your own as we have done.

Edited October 1, 2005 by JohnnyVegas

October 4, 2005

I absolutely hate being left out of anything fun. So I made some little shrinky dink coins with my screen name and some silly sayings on them. I have a wierd sense of humor.

9.5k · October 4, 2005

I've been doing shrinky dinks for about a year now.

This is in addition to the business cards I make with the same thing on it. I'll be making a new version reflecting the change in my avatar soon.

18.9k · October 4, 2005

Just a small golf pencil - useful to future cachers if nothing else.

5.3k · October 4, 2005

I absolutely hate being left out of anything fun. So I made some little shrinky dink coins with my screen name and some silly sayings on them. I have a wierd sense of humor.

What is a shrinky dink? <_<

9.5k · October 4, 2005

Acetate that you can draw or print on. You can then cut out the shape and bake it to a hard plastic dink. It shrinks down to about 25% of it's original size. I don't let mine flatten out on purpose with the current version because I take advantage of the concave side to make it look like the picture is looking at you from almost any angle.

Edited October 4, 2005 by TotemLake

October 4, 2005

Here is my first Sig Item. A bussiness card.

After Printing it with my inkjet printer, I sprayed it acouple of times with a sealant so it won't smudge so easy. It printed alittle better than this looks.

Edited October 4, 2005 by Panda Fan

1.6k · October 4, 2005

my sig item...

4 Oct 2005

Jhwk

TFTC!

too cheap to do otherwise, and I don't need more to carry to caches. <_<

9.5k · October 4, 2005

I rarely trade for anything these days so this is my contribution at putting something in. I was flattered to find out when I started dropping mine in that they became a sought after item. Each cache gets a sticky label in the log, a business card and a keytag. I drop in geocoins in caches that require an effort to get to or caches that take me to a very nice destination. All of this usually weighs less than a mctoy and takes up less room.

October 9, 2005

We leave our personalized wooden nickels... Everyone seems to like them

October 9, 2005

I've also used wooden dollars and nickels. I'm now using up my last 100 nickels and supplementing them with personalized carabiners. After putting out over 800 of the wooden coins, I kind of figure that anyone who wanted one has had a chance to find it. I've actually found them in caches I haven't logged.

October 9, 2005

I made up some 2"x2" magnets that look just like my avatar, with "QDman" at the bottom. They're not near as nice as some of the other sig items on this page, but they'll do.

October 9, 2005

Just finished and started placing my signature item. Geocaching trading cards:

They are sets of trading cards (9 in each set) with a different Geocaching "Tool of the Trade" on each card and a profile of that item on the back. I have made a contest relating to the cards. See my profile for the contest details.

Edited October 9, 2005 by Teamhawaii1981

October 9, 2005

Here is our bussines card (cachecard)

We are going to make shrinky-dink keychains, but havent got around to it.

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