I'm trying to find a letter set, 5/32" - 3/16" high (caps only). Stand-alone letters or on stamps. If on stamps, then not reversed. (would produce a reversed image if you inked it...) They need to be at least 1/32" thick (if on a smamp then raised that high), but prefereably 1/16" thick. (If they are beads, then no extra loops for stringing.)
Anyone know where I can get this?
(I found a reversed metal stamp set for stamping metal, but the letters are not flat on top, they are rounded (one set looks pretty sharp) to facilitate stamping steel. I need them to be flat.)
Are they pronounced enough that you could mill the top off of all of them and make them flat? Might be hard to do, but might also be the only way to get them...
I don't think that I understand exactly what you're looking for and what you'll be doing with it. But I have an idea anyway. :-)
Pat Kight has suggested Ready Stamp (for custom rubber stamps) here several times over the years. (Thanks, Pat!) Maybe this would work for you.
Using your computer's graphics program or word processor, create a
7"x9" document and fill it with the size letters that you want, using your choice of font(s). Leave enough space between the letters so that you can cut them apart if you wish. If you type the letters normally, the rubber stamps would print backwards, as you requested.
Now for the interesting part. Be sure to request the matrix board when you order your stamps. The matrix board is a "reverse" mold. You can use different types of materials (such as polymer clay) to fill the molds. However, the objects are then reversed, just as the stamped images are. SO, take some of those letters that you typed and
*reverse* them using your software. Your document will have some normal letters and some reversed letters. Now you can use your matrix board to make little letters out of clay, melted embossing powders, paper, etc. (You should experiment with different materials and release agents on the part of the matrix that will reverse your letters.) :-)
Of course, now you will have some rubber stamps that will print normal letters, which is not what you wanted. Send them to me, and I'll happily punch them out with a regular office-type hole punch, and glue them on the eraser end of a regular pencil, or on dowels. ;-)
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