Jules
October 24, 2018, 2:45am
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Yes, I made one…
Guess I’d better post quickly before it disappears…chuckle!
(Whoop! Too late…it’s gone.)
It’s very, very cool. (The Precision Power engrave, not the stamp.)
Just inverted a jpeg from the internet, slapped a little rectangle around it, and sent it to engrave with the Map Grays to Power function in the new Engrave dialog box. (Two passes to make it deep enough to use as a stamp.)
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Cut it out of the Maple Proofgrade ply and stuck a piece of tape on the back to …
And there is a lot of information on best ways to engrave them in the Beyond the Manual section. (Most of it will apply to woodblock stamps as well as the rubber.)
https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=Stamp
This one is very helpful:
Hey folks. I had need of a stamp saying Thank You for some cards I’m making, so I thought I’d walk folks through the process in case you want to try it. First of all, I’m using Art Stamp Laser Polymer from Jackson Marking Products. I prefer it for my stamping as you can mount it to an acrylic block and see through it to where you are stamping. They do also supply the opaque rubber laser stamp material as well, and you would prepare the file the same way, but your settings would be different …
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