My wife needed a stamp, and on the last stamp blank I had, I came out very nice. and then of course I tried to test it out after cleaning the gunk off with 99.9% IPA and realized ugh, forgot to reverse it AGAIN!!! All off to Inventables to order more Linoleum blanks…
Hopefully one day soon we’ll have a badge for that. (You might get the first one, but it won’t be the only one…I forgot to mirror the post holes on the first carousel iteration.)
That turned out great!(Besides the backwards problem ) They have Linoleum stamp blanks like that at Hobby Lobby. If there is one close to you, then you can get it faster.
First one on the proposed badges thread — because so many of us need it so often. (I just forgot to reverse all three plates for a three-color print. )
I think she should just use it as is. It will either make folks scratch their heads, or you’ll be able to tell that they really aren’t paying attention.
Is there a benefit to using the linoleum stamps vs rubber ones? Is one material more durable than the other, or does one engrave better than the other?
I think linoleum is harder, provides a crisper demarcation between the surface and the void and the image doesn’t deform under “extra” pressure, making it more reliable to align colors if you are printing with different color plates, for example.