navigator9
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Quite a while back, I had posted about looking for an affordable soap stamping machine, or trying to build one, since my carpal tunnel was making stamping more than a couple of soaps at a time really difficult. I realized yesterday, that I never followed up on that thread, so here goes.
There are a lot of stamping machines out there, but only if you want to spend big bucks. There's this one ( http://soapequipment.com/images/Stamper45.jpg ) for $445.00 at soapequipment.com that comes with one custom stamp. Or without the custom stamp for $275.00, although it seems that their stamper can only be used with their custom stamps, but I could be wrong. To buy additional custom stamps, it costs $175.00. So even if I did want to spend that much, I couldn't use all of the stamps I already have. And there are other machines that cost a lot more than that. But the one above is the one I focused on, since it seemed the simplest. So I started looking and came up with this... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D6KGTU/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Look familiar? That's what I thought. And sooooo much cheaper. So I ordered one, and with a few alterations, I have a stamping machine. I did have to build a little "platform" for the soap to sit on, because the stamper doesn't come down quite far enough to reach the top of the soap. And there's no way to affix the stamp to the machine, so I just position the stamp on top of the soap and bring the bottle capper down on top of it, to press the stamp into the soap. It does take a little practice with positioning, but it sure saves my hands from all that pounding with the mallet. This tray of soaps was stamped with the bottle capper. So in case any of you out there saw this bottle capper thingy on Amazon, and wondered if you could stamp soaps with it...yes, you can!
There are a lot of stamping machines out there, but only if you want to spend big bucks. There's this one ( http://soapequipment.com/images/Stamper45.jpg ) for $445.00 at soapequipment.com that comes with one custom stamp. Or without the custom stamp for $275.00, although it seems that their stamper can only be used with their custom stamps, but I could be wrong. To buy additional custom stamps, it costs $175.00. So even if I did want to spend that much, I couldn't use all of the stamps I already have. And there are other machines that cost a lot more than that. But the one above is the one I focused on, since it seemed the simplest. So I started looking and came up with this... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D6KGTU/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Look familiar? That's what I thought. And sooooo much cheaper. So I ordered one, and with a few alterations, I have a stamping machine. I did have to build a little "platform" for the soap to sit on, because the stamper doesn't come down quite far enough to reach the top of the soap. And there's no way to affix the stamp to the machine, so I just position the stamp on top of the soap and bring the bottle capper down on top of it, to press the stamp into the soap. It does take a little practice with positioning, but it sure saves my hands from all that pounding with the mallet. This tray of soaps was stamped with the bottle capper. So in case any of you out there saw this bottle capper thingy on Amazon, and wondered if you could stamp soaps with it...yes, you can!
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