This was my first attempt with a 3d printed stamp. Worked great!
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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How did you do the shading? I've never done leatherwork.
I went over the stamp with blue sharpie and wet the leather with water and a small amount of isopropyl alcohol. When you compress the stamp into the leather with a press the alcohol reactivates the ink in the recesses.
I've made a couple of stamps (my maker's mark and an icosahedron (d20), mostly for accents on a project I was working on at the time), but nothing this ambitious. I can't get over how nice the texturing came out; well done!
Can you edit in the actual stamp? The end result is good, but can you also show the 3d printed thing?
Here's a picture of the stamp.
It's just a 3mm thickness disc with the picture on the top at 2mm. I use a 6 ton shop press to compress it with a 1" steel plate used to distribute the force. The print is a no name brand black PLA printed at 0.2 at the fast setting on an AnkerMake M5. You can also see the residual ink, the stamping only takes a small amount. I did a few at one time without having to reapply.
Thanks!
I'm amazed PLA is able to take that kind of pressure. I imagine you printed it with solid infill.
It ended up being solid just because of the standard wall thicknesses, but PLA prints are quite strong from a compressive standpoint. That said, I am sure I am not applying the entire 6 tons. I have done similar experiments with a bench vice with similar results too, it's just a little harder to line everything up give the jaw depth.
Oh that looks cool, is this to stamp things you're making or just playing with it for fun?
I make some small things for gifts and being able to make a custom stamp for a few uses is a cool concept.
Frog Samurai?
I do believe his name is Glenn.
One of my favorite character and was the inspiration for the stamp for sure.
Thats delightful!
Nice! I have thought about doing something like this, but haven’t yet.
Would you mind if I asked you how you transferred the drawing to 3D? I use fusion360, and the process can be a bit finicky.
Ideally I would like to take a drawing and convert it into a stamp
For sure. I just dragged and dropped the jpg into 3d Builder. That program is rudimentary but if it is a simple drawing it does a great job creating a model.
Awesome. Thank you