Hand Stamp Helping Hand for flat stock

**jjr2001** · Jan 7, 2018, 08:39 PM

Nothing new here. Just made a typical hand stamp guide using some aluminum and two magnets.
Helps to keep all the characters lined up. This one is for flat stock.

Cheers, JR

**tonyfoale** · Jan 8, 2018, 04:36 PM

That's nice. That will be my first job in the morning.

**jjr2001** · Jan 8, 2018, 07:39 PM

Thanks Tony, You will enjoy stamping stability with that tool.

Cheers, JR

**ACinSV** · Jan 11, 2018, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by jjr2001

Nothing new here. Just made a typical hand stamp guide using some aluminum and two magnets.
Helps to keep all the characters lined up. This one is for flat stock.

Cheers, JR

I am not kidding: I was literally YESTERDAY wanting something like this to stamp steel types into the custom chef's knives I make, and couldn't even figure out the right search terms for it so I gave up. Opened my e-mail and saw this and my jaw (figuratively this time :-) dropped to the floor. The gods must be smiling on me - thanks so much! Andrew

**jjr2001** · Jan 11, 2018, 09:21 AM

Thanks Andrew, easy to make and very useful in the shop.

Cheers, JR

**brianhw** · Jan 11, 2018, 12:23 PM

Why didn't I think of this !
A simple idea but a very handy one indeed.
When I saw this I HAD to make a copy, which I did today in my workshop for use with my set of 5/16" square shank letter & number types.
Thanks, jjr2001 for this useful post.