Fine tuning your Polymer Stamp making 13 

You are welcome! Glad it is working for you!

madhatters and Darlene, you are welcome.

The tube lamps are very unreliable, yes they do have warm up, will alter depending on how long used in a session and need different times according to season. This is a very old video, look at the 'most important stamp making' playlist and look at the LED version of the tube lamps. That avoids those issues.

@@createinspain Thank you so much!!!! With your videos and advices I was able to find my times and procedures again. I feel reborn! I will search here in Argentina for those lamps or a situable replacement, I found some LED tubes that will fit just right into my insolator, I will investigate more. Again, thank you so much, you're a great teacher.

@@DanielFilipiuk you are welcome

I don't know why, but I had replied and today found it wasn't showing up..You can't print shades, it needs to be a true negative. I suspect your new lamp will not work well, the LEDs need to be evenly placed and it could be too strong. I suggest you look at the 'most important stamp making' playlist.

Janice, if you really want a set I can make some to your personal size preference, but can you get the gel in the bottle? If you can get the bottled stuff it will work out way cheaper in the long run, even if you waste half of the first one getting your timing right!

createinspain I cannot find the post where I asked about the frames. You made them. Is it perspex? What would you charge to make a set? Regards Minnie

Would this work?

If your fine letters are not stable it is either too short a cure on the back or on the front. Once properly cured, they should be washable.

Okay. I'll adjust those seconds, thanks!😀@@createinspain

Chris, if only it were that simple! Firstly, I will deal with thicknesses. If you do a plain test patch, say, a filled circle or square, you start by finding out how long it takes to process JUST THE BACK to the depth you want. For me, this is 45 seconds. That bit does not change much for me, it is my constant. It will depend on your set up if it is the same for you, but take the time to get to know your back developing time. You should be looking for a 50/50 split as a median. Once you have your backing time, do a test www.dropbox.com/s/31xqinlyayrztx3/test.svg?dl=0 with this image. I would expect it to be a control stamp, that is, a median. Some images with finer lines will need longer on the image side, images with thicker lines or more solid areas will need less. What you need work out is the median for the sort of images you want to make stamps for. I know for example, that I don't want to do much in the way of photographic type or detailed animals etc so I don't worry about that. After that it is trial, error, skill and experience I'm afraid!

I make all sorts of stamps, large text, tiny text, patterns, anything! I have a Tim Holts gizmo.

It depends on your printer. I find a laser printer gets good results on tracing paper or onion paper, mine doesn't handle transparency film so well. It was a case of finding something that I could easily buy locally, print on and know that others could get too. Papers differ so much in the amount of light they let through and printers vary on how well they print black. Sometimes you get a better result with a standard setting than when you select a 'dark' one, for example. When I first started doing this, OHP film was hard to get - and I suspect with fewer people using them in the business world it will get withdrawn from sale at some point! BTW up to video no 39 on stamp making now.....:)

@@createinspain Thank you! I was thinking about the science behind this, and if the point is to block out light, then vellum and tracing paper should be enough to let the light through and still print on it. I've also read somewhere about this product about toner density spray. Supposedly it darkens the opacity on vellum paper. Have you ever used it?

@@elisabethdenisar8240 No, I've not used it - because it was just another step another expense and the whole idea of this is not to spend an arm and a leg on specialty items. I want to keep the cost of the consumables down to a minimum.

Hi Tallia, you need to tell me where you are. There is another video in the playlist on supplies but I know it can be hard to source. Going this rate I'm going to have to start selling it!

Ha! Maybe you should start selling it! I’m in the United States. Thank you for your help.

www.rubberstampmaerials.com may be a possibility. Colop is I believe also in the USA. Whatever company you use, tell them it is for making craft stamps, that way, they should sell you something suitable. If I sold it, it would probably be too expensive because of delivery costs!

Okay, thank you so much! I appreciate it!

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