Stamping Leather with Arthritis

[Dwight]

You all have read where I do not do a lot of stamping . . . not very good at it . . . plus my arthritis gives me the fits when I try it.

I came across something though . . . that fixes that.

Holding the stamping tool for more than a few minutes and I have serious cramps and pains.

This aluminum sleeve that goes over the stamp takes that away as it is appreciably bigger . . . easier to hold on to . . . and makes turning it to "just the right angle" a whole lot easier.

Just wanted to pass on the good info for others who may suffer with cramping fingers or thumb.

May God bless,

Dwight

[badhatter1005]

Dwight my friend. Where in the world did you get this and also where in the world can I get one? This is genius.

[dikman]

If you know anyone with a lathe it would be easy to make.

[Beehive]

It'd end up being a set of shank sizes. A nice copper rivet setter isn't cheap. I wouldn't think those would be either. 

I made a small chisel holder and used it with stamps. I never could get use to holding a stamp that way. Here of late I've been looking at pencil grips. Particularly the old-school triangle looking ones. 

Edited 14 hours ago by Beehive

[Dwight]

10 hours ago, dikman said:

If you know anyone with a lathe it would be easy to make.

Actually . . .  it does look easy to make . . . and the part(s) you see in the pictures . . . they are not "that" hard.

But as Beehive mentioned . . .  there are a whole batch of different shank sizes . . .  combating that with just one tool is in itself a trick.

We're working on that trick . . .  there are several different approaches . . . just trying to determine which will hold up the longest.

May God bless,

Dwight

[Gezzer]

Great idea !

If one was going to make it , shouldn't be much more to fitting a taper collet on the receiving end  . Might be too bulky though ?