awhile back dominic greco made a really nice plane cabinet and it said "dominic" all over it in his work and his feelings towards wood..
Hmmm, in general, the answer is "No"... at least as far as signature classy go-all-out pieces.
On the other hand I think that some of the simpler stuff I have does say "Art Mulder" all over it.
First there is my
wall-mounted toolbox...
What makes this piece unique, IMHO, is the story more than the piece. Way back early in my ww'ing pursuit, I made my son a wooden wagon out of ash. Lovely piece. Beautiful wood. Turned out great.
Total
disaster as a wagon though, it weighed a ton. We pulled it around the block exactly
once. It kicked around the basement for a while, and after a few years I took the body and hung it on the wall to be the main carcass of my toolbox. The door was just plywood, which I thought was too ugly, so I resawed a bunch of pine and glued that on the outside to pretty it up.
I use it all the time, and I love the organization it introduces into my shop.
Now this humble piece --- emphasis on humble --- has got "Mulder" all over it also. (Actually it's got Larry's name on it too, recognize your old sander?)
Yes, that is an old plywood drawer, turned on end and pressed into service as a 5minute build-a-rolling-base job. Dumb looking, sure, but it really shows that I am my father's son.
Again, the story makes the difference. Way back in the 70s, my dad (a carpenter) made built-in beds and desks in our basements in the old house. Some of those lasted a long time, some only a few years. But a true frugal dutchman**, he would not just toss things out. The drawers from the old built-in beds (or desk, I forget which) were turned on end and did duty in various rooms as end tables. I know that they still have one or two in their house today -- sitting in the Living room with a nice little handmade (by mom) tablecloth on them with a plant on top, and some coffee-table books inside.
So when I see that drawer, ugly and basic as it may be, I think about my Dad a bit. In fact, that is a drawer he made decades ago, that I also pulled out of a bed when the bed was finished, but couldn't bear to just toss out.
So that's my story.
...art
** Actually to be fair, anyone who lived through WWII in Europe as my folks did, be they dutch or from some other country, probably learned frugality far better than anyone else I know.