Custom Makers Mark

[Kleofash]

Hello, I can recommend a guy from Czech rep. Vojtěch Dařbuján. (www.kipos.cz)

He made two for me:

[Nuttish]

I've had the thought, to build my own makers mark. I find the oval "maker" style rather boring and quite frankly a bit over priced.

I thought I'd try my own using a dremel and a wood burning set to make a shallow mold and piur one using some old linotype I have.

Has anyone ever made your own?

What worked?

What didn't?

However, I question whether you're going to like the quality you get with those tools making a mold for moveable type hot metal. Custom moveable type is either photoengraved or very very very very rarely punchcut, which is what you're essentially proposing. For allllllll the time and trouble you're going to go through, I'd honestly suggest just using Illustrator or Inkscape and drawing your mark to send it to Owasso and have some deep cut embossing dies made. Their plates come large enough that you can get so much on them that they're ridiculously cost effect — sometimes less expensive than a single Grey Ghost Delrin mark, for example. How much is your time worth?

[lionfly]

I can recommend Toolpaw as well. He made my stamp and it turned out perfectly.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Toolpaw

[Colt W Knight]

I ordered my delrin one from here

http://www.lasergiftcreations.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=20&products_id=110