I Can't Spell!

[WinterBear]

My best and only letterpress font for lettering is actually two complete sets and one partial set of Kingsley type in the same font. All of my other type are flourishes, dingbats, and corners. The rest are figurative cuts (some reproductions, some real ones), and mostly are under 2" square. Scouts, Lions, Rotary, Kiwanis, Marines, animals, hunting, fantasy beasts. I get by with using wood clamps on these, but eventually I'll get a couple of steel plates and an arbor press or a manual clicker to do a better and quicker jobs of things. Most of the language of printers is completely beyond me though.

[Stewart]

Tandy's work fine for me. Do have to rotate left to right and top to bottom. Use a ruler to lineup . as far as using other types of set letters I will stay away. I will keep on tracing and carving and use Tandy's stamps when it,s justified.

[cloverpatch]

Has anybody tried using slugs from a Ludlow?

You can't kern the type but it is all connected so the letters don't move about on you.

Perhaps several impressions with an arbor press will give an even stamp, or a wood vise as Bob Stelmack suggests.

If you can find a letterpress printer in your area there is a good chance they will have a Ludlow.

[mikesc]

http://xkcd.com/1015/

[Treed]

I do some lettering in family names and such on leather goods. I have a bunch of stamps that I used but like most had trouble with and did not care for. I use my computer now printing out a pattern for the name in what ever font that looks the best and let the computer adjust the scale and size to what I need. Trace the pattern and a few cuts and bevels and it is done. Easier than layouts, pressing or stamping letters into the leather for me and gives me a broader scope of lettering to use.