My wife has tons of stamps. But being able to make her own will totally blow her mind. She will be so excited! @rebecca Thanks so much for sharing this. I had neglected that from my materials for when my Glowforge arrives. Ordering now
Do you use just wood scraps to mount the stamp? I have Never made a stamp before.
After @henryhbk cut some Linoleum stamps from inventibles, I decided to buy this. Its a sheet of Linoleum that you can laser, then mount to something else. I’m looking forward to trying it out!
No there is not a separate rubber stamp mode in the UI. Either way, it’s just a matter of one of the members posting the settings and passes, isn’t it? I don’t expect any such capability before the company starts selling Proofgrade material that can be used for this function. At this time there is no such material in the materials shop.
Rubber stamps are not something I care about, so will admit that haven’t paid any real attention to the posts on that subject. So I don’t remember a rubber stamp mode being promised, though not ruling it out.
I’ve been thinking about this. I have made several rubber (actually, clear laser polymer) stamps and they all suffer from the weakness you refer to. If I engrave too deeply, the thinnest lines don’t have enough support and they don’t stamp well. So I’d be interested in a rubber stamp mode as well. However, there is one thing I plan to try in the meantime: create an intermediate level for engraving that would only go halfway down and would outline each element for a few 10ths of a millimeter. (Hope that makes sense.) So for example your intermediate level would be superimposed on the deeper engrave in a different color in the UI and would have shallower engrave settings. I plan to give this a try soon.
If you do, will you please share your findings here? I suspect that these same techniques/principles will apply to leather stamps/embossing plates as well. Have not tried those yet due to time constraints + lack of engraving skill
My students make small laser cut items for our capsule vending machine as a fundraiser. I’d love to add small stamps to our repertoire. Thanks for the idea.
As it sits now- It can do stamps. Are you wanting a specific mode that does it (vs. just putting in the manual power/speed?) Or you mean proofgrade rubber? What was demoed above by @rebecca shows you can do it. As for the ‘widening the base of the stamp’ you can do that now also. But that would require a depth map of some kind.
Well I got that wrong. I was too rushed yesterday morning. I saw that post. I just focused on the ‘Demoing it in the near future is the part that’s on the wishlist’ and interpreted it wrongly as having nothing else is on the wishlist - like doing rubber stamps. I thought he was contradicting himself and therefore nothing was really promised. If the timing was slightly different yesterday morning and I learned how to quote single lines from a post before posting this then you would have had the pleasure of seeing me have that quote in my mistaken post.
Searching on [material name] (e.g., “stamp rubber”) + settings in the Beyond the Manual category (the only place settings are allowed to be posted in this forum) yields a lot of results. Here is a redux I found after a quick search:
There is a lot of variability in materials. Learning to test to find your own settings is worthwhile: