Yea Mitch!
I just took a cyber-trip to Kirwin Lake Kansas - thanks for including
the stamps, and, BTW, design and craving job! You have a nice,
consistant style to your work, very clean, direct and bold. Keep it up.
These are carved from red rubber? With X-acto blades or Speedball
cutters?
Has anyone out there tried a Dremel tool for stamp carving? if so, what
did you use for a cutting nib?
Erik D.
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Kirwin Stamps
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Started on 1999-01-08
[L-USA] Kirwin Stamps
From: erik/susan davis (davisarc@wcvt.com) |
Date: 1999-01-08 19:45:39 UTC-08:00
[L-USA] Re: Kirwin Stamps
From: (Letterboxr@aol.com) |
Date: 1999-01-09 03:02:11 UTC-05:00
In a message dated 1/8/99 9:02:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, davisarc@wcvt.com
writes:
> These are carved from red rubber? With X-acto blades or Speedball
> cutters?
You know me... always the purist. I've played around with other tools, and
mediums, but I always go back to my trusty Pink Pearl erasers and a simple $2
X-acto knife.
I like red rubber because it's firm. When I go back to vinyl, it feels like
I'm cutting jello. Rubber resists a little, which (for me) seems to result in
better control of the knife. It also allows me to carve fine details that
would break off if done in vinyl.
Some stamps I've made in the past took days to complete, but for letterboxes I
must admit that I try to keep it simple. Most have taken well under an hour
to carve. That way I won't be completely crushed if one of them comes up
missing... easy come, easy go. I'll just whip up a new one and try a better
hiding place. Better to devote my time to setting out as many boxes as I can,
rather than dote forever on one masterpiece stamp, only to have it stolen as
soon as I set it out.
My early stamps were small and carved in a single Pink Pearl (or sometimes a
white vinyl eraser). Lately, I've been carving my title and date on one
eraser, and the graphics on another. Then I arrange them on a thin block of
wood using rubber cement to make a nice sized stamp. By the way, I have
purposefully altered the scale of my online stamp images, so that a
counterfeit print made off the website will not turn out the same size as an
original print.
Thanks for your positive comments on the Kansas stamps. I carved them while
sitting around with family, and then my parents and my nephew all went out and
helped me hide them. It added a bit of interest to our holiday, and was fun
for everyone... my 3 year old nephew is still convinced that a bear was hiding
in the hollow tree that I hid the Wheat Head box inside!!
Peace and Love,
'Der Mad Stamper'
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writes:
> These are carved from red rubber? With X-acto blades or Speedball
> cutters?
You know me... always the purist. I've played around with other tools, and
mediums, but I always go back to my trusty Pink Pearl erasers and a simple $2
X-acto knife.
I like red rubber because it's firm. When I go back to vinyl, it feels like
I'm cutting jello. Rubber resists a little, which (for me) seems to result in
better control of the knife. It also allows me to carve fine details that
would break off if done in vinyl.
Some stamps I've made in the past took days to complete, but for letterboxes I
must admit that I try to keep it simple. Most have taken well under an hour
to carve. That way I won't be completely crushed if one of them comes up
missing... easy come, easy go. I'll just whip up a new one and try a better
hiding place. Better to devote my time to setting out as many boxes as I can,
rather than dote forever on one masterpiece stamp, only to have it stolen as
soon as I set it out.
My early stamps were small and carved in a single Pink Pearl (or sometimes a
white vinyl eraser). Lately, I've been carving my title and date on one
eraser, and the graphics on another. Then I arrange them on a thin block of
wood using rubber cement to make a nice sized stamp. By the way, I have
purposefully altered the scale of my online stamp images, so that a
counterfeit print made off the website will not turn out the same size as an
original print.
Thanks for your positive comments on the Kansas stamps. I carved them while
sitting around with family, and then my parents and my nephew all went out and
helped me hide them. It added a bit of interest to our holiday, and was fun
for everyone... my 3 year old nephew is still convinced that a bear was hiding
in the hollow tree that I hid the Wheat Head box inside!!
Peace and Love,
'Der Mad Stamper'
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