You can buy a custom branding iron or metal stamp to sign your work. But what if you are, uh, parsimonious? Or perhaps your name is Megan Fitzpatrick?
This week I ordered a custom rubber stamp for a promotional thing-a-ding we have coming at Lost Art Press. As always, I used Simon’s Stamps in Massachusetts, which I’ve been using for years. They are fast, cheap and do good work.
Just choose a size of your stamp and upload your artwork. My stamp was 2-1/2” high and 2” wide. (That is huge.) Cost: $16 plus shipping. Turnaround time: Less than a week.
These stamps would be a nice way to mark your handiwork with a custom logo or even your signature. You can send Simon’s Stamps almost any kind of freaky shape and they’ll make a nice stamp with it. And the best thing is you don’t have to invest in an expensive metal stamp.
Now I just need to find some pink ink pads to really make it mine.
— Christopher Schwarz
wait…are you calling me penurious or sesquipedalian? Either way, I’m much aggrieved.
I believe he was calling you a flagitious churl. His words, not mine.
Christopher, you should be able to fine un-inked pads to which you apply your own ink. I know red is available, and if you can fine a white of the same “family” you can mix them to whatever shade of pink you desire. Add a tad of blue or black for “fine tuning” to the right shade, and VOILA, a color that nobody else is likely to match!
So I can make Hello Kitty-colored ink pads?
Joy.
I’ve got some for marking my books, never thought of using them for marking my work. Gotta make sure that the ink used and the stains/finishes that it will have to coexist with are going to get along though…
Chris……I just looked further in the offerings of Simon’s Stamps and found they have a pink in their Color Box Archival Pads
Now I know what I’m asking for for Christmas.
Hope it’s domestic pink ink….
Gel stain thinned a tad with a shot of spray lacquer after drying works great with those larger stamps. I found this out after my daughter’s (possibly hello kitty) ink pad ran dry. By ran dry, I mean stored open under a heat lamp in the Santa Anna winds for two months just before the most significant event in a seven year old’s life requiring rubber stamps, but typing ‘ran dry’ really stopped an annoying run on sentence.
That’s the bloodstain from your Moxon vise in the background! Nice addition!
Chris,
This is a great idea thanks for sharing but one question though, do you ever have any problems with the ink bleeding when your projects?
Cheers
Charlie,
I’ve been using this inkpad for years on paper and wood. No problems whatsoever. When I stamp my work I do it on the unfinished underside.
Paper is wood in the thinnest veneer possible….
Copy that… thanks for satisfying my curiosity.
Cheers
Is the ring now a permanent addition to the logo? Why the addition/change?
Andrew,
Nah. Our logo is still just the dividers. This stamp is for a special run of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” books. It’s our logo combined with an Enzo to look like the Anarchy symbol.
Chris, is it just me or is the circle behind the dividers meant to represent a Japanese / Zen circle or “enso?” I can’t think of anything more appropriate.
It is an enso. And it creates an “A.”