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Custom Stamps

1 messages in this thread | Started on 2002-06-12

Custom Stamps

From: Dave Whitcher (fudrick@attbi.com) | Date: 2002-06-12 20:35:18 UTC-07:00
Developing your own design is best, but I am one of those who carve my fingers more than the eraser.  A good source for a custom made stamp is your local engraving store or trophy store.  EskieLover and I had one for a while, and had a stamp press.  You make your custom artwork.  This is scanned into the computer, digitized for the engraving machine, a mold is engraved, and the mold pressed into the heated rubber to make the stamp.  If you work with the engraver, the scanned artwork can be edited before engraving the mold.  If you go to a stationary (sp) store or some such, they have the local engraving shop make it for them and add their cost.  The stamp would be your personal design, you just had someone else make it into a stamp.  You can get just the rubber stamp and glue it to your own backing.
 
Fudrick