F.W. Arms: New Firearm Brand With its Roots in Branding Irons

By Ammoland

Hayward, CA – -(

Back in 1982, Frank was a young woodworker looking to start a business when he saw an ad for branding irons in a woodworking magazine. He immediately saw the potential for a company that made branding irons to emboss information and designs on wood products. Soon after, he bought a pantograph machine, started making branding irons in his basement with other family members, and advertised his products in the same woodworking magazine that gave him the idea. He called his company Nova Tool after the Spanish word for “new” because, well, it was a new company!

Nova landed its first dealer account in 1984 and to this day produces a variety of personalized branding irons for hobbyist woodworkers. A few years after its founding, Frank discovered another market: making propane branding irons for bee hives. It’s an obscure but important niche: Not only does branding beehives help reduce theft, but most states also keep a tight regulatory rein on interstate insect transport, so many of them require each hive to have a specific and permanent identifying mark on the outside. Bees are routinely shipped all over the country to pollinate …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand