Silver smith stamps Vintage Navajo style design stamp heavy design, SS-1039

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Silver smith stamps Vintage Navajo style design stamp heavy design, SS-1039:
$12.50

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This stamp is hand made by Jim Saunders

width................Look at the picturenext to ruler

stamp weight.................about1 oz,or 30 gms..twice the weight and size of the 1/4 inch standard stamp

The artist stamp Maker..... Jim Saunders

Silver stamps Vintage Navajo style

Here is a very nice Navajo style stamp.!!!

Here is a metal stamp that I have built. Without a long story I did have seven years of formal metal education prior to my jewelry career. This metal education came in very handy and still does during my over 46 years of jewelry making and manufacturing. Back in the early 1970s I was just starting out and green I guess today on the Internet we call those newbies but I didn\'t know a lot about the jewelry business or where things come from, butwas very fortunate to be sitting in the biggest handmade jewelry manufacturing boom toever hit the USA. I was in Albuquerque in the 1970s and this proved to be a huge silver and turquoise jewelry manufacturing boom. They estimated there were over 50,000 people involved in this boom at that point in time. Boom and bust is a tough thing to live with and be from and to be in the middle of, and many very large jewelry manufacturers came form this boom I was centered in.

Back in the early 1970s I had a silver jewelry manufacturing business with over 36 employees and I also used a lot of what we called piece workers that worked at their house and they got paid by the piece or the step that they did. I needed several thousand handmade stamps and found some were good, most were not. The sources for the stamps were hard to find and when I did find one I would buy what he had, usually 50 to 200 stamps. And these early stamps worked for us, and we got the the jewelry built. In recent years I had thousands of these stamps and have decided to sell them off.

In dealing with the customers that buy the stamps, I found most of them worked well but a few were not made correctly. A good quality stamp that will last for many years needs to be made from tool steel.. Now a lot ofstamp makershave a lot of opinions on what they consider steel of a quality to make stamps from, I see everything from rebar to valve stems from engines to just plain old mild rolled steel,theyusually just use what is easily found andthus does not hold upvery well. Since my silver smithing needs have grown in design and my personal needs are to have very high quality stampsusing my designs and of course using the old vintage designs, I find myself building stamps. And in building stamps I was only going to build them for myself, but in selling off my old stock I found many customers wanting special needs instamps and have decided to make a few for sale.. Not sure how long I will make them for sale, so if you like what you see you had better buy them, as there may not be anymore. At first my stamps were pretty crude and not up to my standards.. It\'s very hard to build small items with precision but I found out about my 500th stamp that I was getting pretty good at this.. And in building stamps for sale, this also increases my skill to build stamps for my use, we get better and betterwith practice. SoI am building more stamps for sale and I\'m getting better at building them and more able to do the very intricate designs that I do design.Thus the very reason I am building a few for sale..Practice..!! Practice..!!Practice..makes you near perfect..and proper tools, even to build stamps with..

That said let\'s look at this stamp... It is made from high carbon tool steel. For those of you that do not know,..?.. tool steel is steel that is made into very hard tools and tooling and depending on which tool is the hardest steel made and is made with a high carbon content.From myseven years of formal metal education and learned how tofabricate many things with metaland I was taught how to heat treat the metal correctly and to work with the correct metal. Some ofmy stampsare even made with old metal files which is the hardest steel. These stamps have all been built with earth friendly metal with the metal coming from old worn-out tools and repurposed. Tool steel is also the most expensive steel to buy in rough form... But when we can use old worn-out tools and tooling and have repurposed them we have left a much smaller imprint on the planet. I guarantee these tools to last and they do work, you can look at my stamped jewelry and see that I do know how to use stamps.

If you have a problem using the stamp it\'s not the stamps fault I can promise you. I have been using stamps for 45 years now, so please realize if you double the size of the stamp you also need to double the size of the pressure used to use the stamp. Your hammer needs to be twice as big..!!!!!! you need a very solid bench or what I use is an actual tree stump that is over 1 foot across and extremely solid and that is what my anvil is mounted on top of.. If you\'re buying a stamp that\'s four times larger.. guess what..??? Basic physics but you need a hammer four times larger than what you are using now..and hit the stampwith four times the effort..!!Please do not buy these larger stamps if you are not prepared to learn how to use them correctly. It\'s not the stamps fault if you have a problem. I will repeat that..!!!.. do not think you can use these larger stamps on your kitchen table with your little cutesy hammer and your little piece of metal that you stamp on.. That will work on those little 1/4 inch commercial available stamps.. But I will stress not these...!!! do your homework do a little research I\'m here to help you also.. Stamping is an acquired skill... Sorry just the way it is.

This stamp was built fromrepurposed high qualitytool steel..this provides the best steel to build these stamps with that would last..do not confuse these stamps with the modern day computer imagery stamps machines built,,,these stamps are handmade..

On the larger stamps I have also included a stamped piece of copper to show the stamp does work.

The prices I charge are based upon the weight and size of the stamp..realize most commercial stamps are only a 1/4 inch width of material..The larger the stamp the much more difficult to build and to find.I have had a lot of trouble finding these larger stamp\'s myself over my 45 years making jewelry. Thus most of my need to build them...!!!

This stamp is hand made by Jim Saunders

width................Look at the picturenext to ruler

stamp weight.................about1.3 oz,or 35 gms

The artist stamp Maker..... Jim Saunders