trick to doing a piece with basket stamping and smacking your logo(stamp) in the middle?

[pete]

Is there a trick to doing a piece with basket stamping and smacking your logo(stamp) in the middle? I can't seem to get the basket weave close to the logo like I see on a lot of pieces.

Do you put the logo on first?

do you scribe the basket line across the center and lightly tap the basket weave, then the logo

OR

Do you guys invest in a second stamp and cut it in half for half impressions!

I've seen some of you saddlemakers fotos close up and I swear the full or partial basketweave stamp butts up to your logos.

????

[bruce johnson]

Pete,

I stamp my makers stamp first. I do my basket stamping as normal after that. When I get close to my maker's stamp I do partial tipped impressions. Just tip the stamp to not hit the makers stamp. Much like stamping up next to a border. To fill in around it sometimes I will lightly scribe lines to keep my stamping pattern lined up in the two dimensions. Once you make friends with your stamp you can tip them and stamp right up to a border, a silhouette, lettering, or makers stamp and not hit it. I little bit of matting or beveling to fade and you are set.

Most of the time I will lightly bevel or background around my makers stamp, and then use a border stamp around it. I use the same borderstamp I use on the inside border of the stamped area.

I have seen guys cut stamps or have "half-stamps' made. It seems like overkill for me, because I never use the same partial impression, especially on inside borders with an angled BS pattern.

[Billsotx]

Bruce,

Not to hi-jack this thread, but along these lines. When you have time, if you still have your illustration of how to run a rope border, using your partial rope border tool, would you post that. Maybe start another thread. I had that from the iilg, but lost it in a crash & burn. I was going to ask off list but others might appreciate it to. Thanks for all the learnin' your sharin' with us.

I bet it's white in Pickle Meadows. Glad I'm not up on that glacier ... brrrrrr

'til later,

~Bill

[pete]

Thanks Bruce- I sure do appreciate your responses on this forum. One last question- when doing, say, the back of an album and I want the logo in the center, do you start your basketweave along a diagonal in the center(crossing the logo) or would you start a little from the top left( or right) ?

If I don't have a logo or figure on the piece I start in the middle working out to the top and bottom.

thanks again

pete

[bruce johnson]

Pete,

I start my basket stamping either from the top or bottom border, never from the center. I stamp a row at time and do not follow the "line".

I am going to do a tutorial on basket and geometric patterns. It is going to be little less involved that I previously wanted to do, but I am having to pull in my wings on things like comparing quality of stamps, and some patterns they published once but no longer do. I will get going on it soon.

Bill,

I do still have that piece, I have been chasing it around my desk for a while, and it is right here. I'll add a thread under "stamping".