Customized Stamp

A short instructable where I show you how I made an personalized stamp for my brother.

Materials

• PLA
• stamp rubber

• double-faced adhesive tape

Tools

• laser cutter
• pc with inscape, rhino and cura
• scissors
• double-faced adhesive tape
• paintbrush

I designed the logo by using inkscape. For the body of the stamp I used rhino for the designing part und cura for the printing part.

Just send the data to the 3d-printer and start printing.

1. Cutting

• just send your inkscape file to your laser cutter and start the engine
• notice to start the extraction because the fume of the stamp rubber smells really bad and I definitely think it can't be really healthy

2. Cleaning

• use the paintbrush to remove all the dust of the rubber

3. Gluing

• I took the cleaned stamp rubber an put some double-faced adhesive tape on it's back and after the removal of the second protective sheet I glued it on the printed stamp

After I made some tests, I realized that the area around the single letters was so big that the ink often made some ugly outlines. To prevent this behaviour I had to do some rework as you see in the pictures.

I also put the double-faced adhesive tape on the backside of the rubber before I started laser cutting. By using this technique I didn't had to cut the difficult silhouette by hand.

It's always annoying when you can't find your stuff so I also made small stamp mount with an integrated place for the inkpad.

Here is the picture of the finished stamp. It was fun to built it, I learned a lot and my brother was really happy about his gift.

If you want to know something about his DIY-skills just visit his instagram profile:

https://www.instagram.com/se.bastel.ian/

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed my instructable!