name stamp

[lurcher]

hi does any of you fine artizans make name stamps
i just had the local police around about security i showed him my tools and hee said that i should stamp all my wooden tools for security and take photo of all my tools
so i would like a stamp made as i am leaving all my tools to my sons and grandsons the name will be goo for them to
lurcher

 

[Mr_P]

Do a search for chalco, lots of info on here.

 

[Vann]

There was a thread 9 - 12 months ago about having stamps made for stamping wood. Formites seemed very happy with the stamps made by a particular small firm IIRC. You'll have to do a search on here.

Cheers, Vann.

 

[Harbo]

Yes Chalco is the place to go

Rod

 

[Jacob]

Make your own. Easier than you think. These are chiselled into the end of a piece of brass bar (easy) or iron (less easy) and the edges filed or hammered into scallops or other patterns.
Even easier of your name is Ted, rather than Nicholson.
And/or decorative patterns can be filed on the ends of bits of scrap bar (from 6" nails upwards) or tube. Stars etc

 

[G S Haydon]

"Even easier of your name is Ted, rather than Nicholson." or Bigwood

 

[Jacob]

"Even easier of your name is Ted, rather than Nicholson." or Bigwood

Interesting. The "W Parkes" (if that's what it is) is a hand embossed style of punch (comes out in relief) but the "Bigwood" etc are machine made. Cast I guess.
I know about hand-making them as a previous wife was into leather work many years ago and I was pressed into making up little punches and other decorative embossing tools from bits of scrap metal. Hours of innocent fun!
I didn't actually make up a name stamp but did a few letters. I could have done one for her - "Rat Bag" or something along those lines :lol:

 

[G S Haydon]

:lol:

 

[Max Power]

:roll: Hmm I wonder what her pet name is for Jacob and who suffered the most :?

 

[bugbear]

IIRC there's an outline of the method in Ashley Iles book on Sheffield (although he does drift into "story" telling at times).

The trad method is very much derived from the method of making moulds for type[faces],
which can be read in Moxon. Similar nethods were used earlier for making coin stamps.

The "holes" (e.g. inside an 'O' or 'A') are made with counter punches, which you have to make first.

BugBear

 

[Jacob]

tother way round.
The trad method ("NICHOLSON" above) would have preceded type face (by 1000s of years) and be embossed or engraved, resulting in the lettering being raised when used as a stamp, or staying deepened when carved direct. So the holes would be untouched and be the original surface, unless decorated - stippling etc.
The later methods ("BIGWOOD" above) would be derived from type faces and presumably supplied by printers, or type face makers if they aren't the same thing.

 

[toolsntat]

It's all here :wink:

http://www.spanglefish.com/metalstamps/

 

[whiskywill]

i would like a stamp made as i am leaving all my tools to my sons and grandsons the name will be goo for them to
lurcher

You have sons and grandsons named Lurcher? :shock:

 

[Racers]

i would like a stamp made as i am leaving all my tools to my sons and grandsons the name will be goo for them to
lurcher

You have sons and grandsons named Lurcher? :shock:

He clearly said "the name will be goo for them to"

:wink:

Pete

 

[jimi43]

CHALCO...Ian Houghton...superb guy!

Jimi