gelandangan
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Attention, my offer for the low priced custom leather stamps are limited to active members with 30 or more posts.
If you wish to purchase a stamp without being an active contributing member, simply order them through Howling Dingo's store at http://www.etsy.com/shop/HowlingDingo
The idea of this discount is to help my mates in BushcraftOz to pimp up their leather works.
By joining just to save a few dollars you are taking up precious bandwidth of the forum and I do not think it is right.
Gday
Since I wrote on my weekend project post that I would make custom leather stamps for a trade, I was asked by a few for prices to make theirs.
And rather than repeating myself too often, I will describe them here.
First of all, this is a hobby, I am not doing this for a living, nor am I wishing to be rich out of this.
Having got that out of the way, lets talk about Market Value.
Tandy Leather have two similar products, a nylon type that cost about $165 for up to 32 x 22mm and a mixed nylon and pot metal type that costs $249 for up to 32 x 32mm
I believe Birdsall sells them at about the same price.
Then. there is a mob in USA called LaserGiftCreations that would make nylon stamps from about US$50
Of course there is Leprevo from UK that etches magnesium stamps (read Blake's review on them), that seems to be very reasonable in price for a large stamp.
Now onto my prices
I guess, I would price my stamps for the member of this forum as follows:
For designs up to 12mm diameter, it would be $25.00
For designs up to 25mm x 25mm square, it would be $50.00
Due to increases in cost, I am planning to increase my price on the 1st of August 2013.
Any order finalized before this date will be at the old price.
On 1st of August 2013,
12mm diameter stamps will be $35.00
25mm x 25mm stamps will be $65.00
Postage price is still the same $7.50 via registered post to anywhere in Australia.
Although it is higher price, I believe they are still much cheaper than elsewhere.
I think this is quite reasonable because I made my stamps out of 6061 Aluminum, in itself, this is a bit more durable than nylon, pot metal (zinc alloy) and to a point magnesium.
The depth of relief I would cut the design to is 1mm deep, deeper relief can be done depending on the design.
I would make most of the larger stamps on 6mm thick stock, and for stamps that fits within 12mm diameter circle, I would made them out of 12mm solid rods cut to about 50mm lengths.
The stamp I use on my leather sheath is made with the 12mm rod.
If you have larger designs, I would give you a quote if you can send me the image and final sizes required.
My machine can work up to 90mm x 180mm size.
You should send a 300dpi JPG image of your design to me at gelandangan(AT)yahoo(DOT)com , with a note of what final size you wish the stamp to be.
I then create a mock up 3D image of the stamp so you could "see" how it would look like before we cut it.
If everything is good, then I would cut the stamp, make a test impression and send the stamp and test impression to you within a week if not faster.
Now, I DO NOT WANT YOUR MONEY!!
You can either send me a trade item to the value of (show me what you got) or buy me something from BushcraftOz store up to the value of (item to be agreed on).
Example of a 12mm stamp
Example of a 25mm stamp
How to use the stamp? (Thank you silverback)
1. Lightly wet the leather until it just darkens a bit,
2. wait till it comes back to its original colour (dried out),
3. as soon as it change to its original color, hit (or clamp on) it with the stamp.
If you wish to purchase a stamp without being an active contributing member, simply order them through Howling Dingo's store at http://www.etsy.com/shop/HowlingDingo
The idea of this discount is to help my mates in BushcraftOz to pimp up their leather works.
By joining just to save a few dollars you are taking up precious bandwidth of the forum and I do not think it is right.
Gday
Since I wrote on my weekend project post that I would make custom leather stamps for a trade, I was asked by a few for prices to make theirs.
And rather than repeating myself too often, I will describe them here.
First of all, this is a hobby, I am not doing this for a living, nor am I wishing to be rich out of this.
Having got that out of the way, lets talk about Market Value.
Tandy Leather have two similar products, a nylon type that cost about $165 for up to 32 x 22mm and a mixed nylon and pot metal type that costs $249 for up to 32 x 32mm
I believe Birdsall sells them at about the same price.
Then. there is a mob in USA called LaserGiftCreations that would make nylon stamps from about US$50
Of course there is Leprevo from UK that etches magnesium stamps (read Blake's review on them), that seems to be very reasonable in price for a large stamp.
Now onto my prices
I guess, I would price my stamps for the member of this forum as follows:
For designs up to 12mm diameter, it would be $25.00
For designs up to 25mm x 25mm square, it would be $50.00
Due to increases in cost, I am planning to increase my price on the 1st of August 2013.
Any order finalized before this date will be at the old price.
On 1st of August 2013,
12mm diameter stamps will be $35.00
25mm x 25mm stamps will be $65.00
Postage price is still the same $7.50 via registered post to anywhere in Australia.
Although it is higher price, I believe they are still much cheaper than elsewhere.
I think this is quite reasonable because I made my stamps out of 6061 Aluminum, in itself, this is a bit more durable than nylon, pot metal (zinc alloy) and to a point magnesium.
The depth of relief I would cut the design to is 1mm deep, deeper relief can be done depending on the design.
I would make most of the larger stamps on 6mm thick stock, and for stamps that fits within 12mm diameter circle, I would made them out of 12mm solid rods cut to about 50mm lengths.
The stamp I use on my leather sheath is made with the 12mm rod.
If you have larger designs, I would give you a quote if you can send me the image and final sizes required.
My machine can work up to 90mm x 180mm size.
You should send a 300dpi JPG image of your design to me at gelandangan(AT)yahoo(DOT)com , with a note of what final size you wish the stamp to be.
I then create a mock up 3D image of the stamp so you could "see" how it would look like before we cut it.
If everything is good, then I would cut the stamp, make a test impression and send the stamp and test impression to you within a week if not faster.
Now, I DO NOT WANT YOUR MONEY!!
You can either send me a trade item to the value of (show me what you got) or buy me something from BushcraftOz store up to the value of (item to be agreed on).
Example of a 12mm stamp
Example of a 25mm stamp
How to use the stamp? (Thank you silverback)
1. Lightly wet the leather until it just darkens a bit,
2. wait till it comes back to its original colour (dried out),
3. as soon as it change to its original color, hit (or clamp on) it with the stamp.
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