Rubber Stamps

2.5k · February 25, 2005

I have just got a self inking rubber stamp to leave my mark in logbooks of caches I have visited. I confess it was partially stamp envy after seeing JollyJax showing off his recently, but also for a while I have been stickering log books, but I quite often seem to mangle my stickers of else they collect fluff in my pocket, so a stamp seemed like a good idea. Strangely, when I am hanging halfway up a muddy bank and trying to sign the log with my torch in my teeth, my handwriting is often not what I would wish, but at least people can read my stamp.

Anyhow, no affiliation (blah blah blah) but I got mine from www.rubberstampz.co.uk and they have given me a 10% off next order number to quote. In fact they said...

The code you can use is stampz10. Just enter it on the right hand side while entering your next order. You can also pass on the code around the office and to friends. No worries.

so I thought I would pass this discount on to you lot. Enjoy!

February 25, 2005

Thanks very much for that Alibags.. Tell us (as we know nothing about such stamps)... what size did you go for and did you upload your own image or tell them what you wanted?

February 25, 2005

I've just ordered one using our little avatar picture.

The stamp size is automatically selected as you scale down the picture. When I uploaded the picture, it started off at 16 cm x 10 cm! Don't think any of the logbooks we've seen would accomodate that size.

I scaled it down to 30% and got a different range of stamps to choose from.

Thanks for the discount code Alibags - it worked fine!

February 25, 2005

Thanks Alibags. I have also just ordered a stamp with the discount code.

My original was about A4 so I reduced to 5% now 4.5cmx2.5 or something.

Now I have got to change my avitar to the stamp pic. (Help my be needed)

2.5k · February 25, 2005

Blimey! You lot were quick off the mark.

You just upload your picture and it choses a default size for the picture to be. You can scale the picture up or down. I had to add text to my picture, but as my image was somewhat low res, they contacted me and asked what font it was and then improved the quality of the text for me. I ended up with a 40 x 40mm stamper.

My top tip would be to ensure there is minimum white space around the outside of your design so you don't end up getting a huge stamp with a small picture stamped from it!

BTW, there are cheaper places that will do just the rubber stamp bit, but I have to say that when I am juggling all sorts of pens, logbooks, torches, etc I appreciate the self inking stamp.

February 25, 2005

I did it but now I expect I have to wait untill the pic come through.

Yes I did reduce the space around the stamp. Ordered, phoned card details and was told sending monday.

Wheres my avitar?

Oh Look! there it is..

Edited February 25, 2005 by McDehack

1.8k · February 25, 2005

Oh Look! there it is..

Yes - but what is it?

2.5k · February 25, 2005

Yes - but what is it?

less scary that the previous, that's what!

1.8k · February 25, 2005

Yes - but what is it?

less scary that the previous, that's what!

True - but I'd better not mention follicular advantage or disadvantage having done so in another thread!

February 25, 2005

It is a profile of me from a mag that I used to have a page or two in each month. circ: 1982.

I wanted something for the stamp, and I thought it was about time I changed my avatar.

P.S. I have worse ones. :huh:

1.8k · February 26, 2005

P.S. I have worse ones.

The mind boggles! :lol:

February 26, 2005

Thanks Ali, I've just ordered one, 3cm on the largest size which will make a great birthday present for myself.

March 3, 2005

Just got our stamp - really pleased with it!

Our avatar started life as an A3 charcoal drawn caricature. I photographed it and messed about with it to get it down to size for use as is.

Now we have a neat 50mm x 35mm rubber facimilie ready for planting in the cache logs.

Total cost (with the 10% discount) was £15.42 for a bog-standard rubber stamp.

March 3, 2005

I got mine yesterday. A posh self inking job cost £23.70. It is bigger than I expected although the stamp size is 35 X 38 cm. Just another bit of kit to carry on caching expeditions.

March 3, 2005

I got mine yesterday. A posh self inking job cost £23.70. It is bigger than I expected although the stamp size is 35 X 38 cm. Just another bit of kit to carry on caching expeditions.

I think you may need a rucksack for that stamp, at a l;ittle over a foot square. Must start using bigger Notebooks!!!!!

March 3, 2005

I think you may need a rucksack for that stamp, at a l;ittle over a foot square. Must start using bigger Notebooks!!!!!

Yea, thats me, think big, act big, buy big, Make BIG mistakes.

35 X38 mm

Well spotted. Get your prize from the next cache you find.

March 3, 2005

OK Rubberstamp cachers, Show us a sample of your new toy.

March 4, 2005

OK Rubberstamp cachers, Show us a sample of your new toy.

You'll have to find a cache that i've found after saturday so you can see it. Was very impressed with the company. Ordered Sunday and the stamp was here on Tuesday. Self inking 3cm square one for £16 all in. Looks similar to my avatar. When it arrived my wife asked why I didn't get a domino one so I could number my caches done on a day...now why didn't I think of that?

March 4, 2005

OK Rubberstamp cachers, Show us a sample of your new toy.

Certainly Dave - as soon as you plant a new cache, we'll get in there and happily apply our new stamp to your logbook...

March 4, 2005

Ordered mine, image uploaded last night, called them this morning to pay. Within 60 seconds had a confirmation e-mail. Should be with me on Tuesday...

<------ That's what I've got! :laughing:

March 4, 2005

OK Rubberstamp cachers, Show us a sample of your new toy.

<----- and thats what I have got also with my 'handle, username' on the top.

2.5k · March 4, 2005

and mine's a flaying pig, with the word Alibags beneath it :laughing:

I will see if I can stamp it and scan it later, for those who may be interested.

March 4, 2005

Ok Bernie go and find the white box cache buried today! HEEEEEE :laughing:

I have sent my order in and hope this will be ok as my old image was causing a problem.

Edited March 4, 2005 by Globetrotter.uk

March 4, 2005

OK Rubberstamp cachers, Show us a sample of your new toy.

You'll have to find a cache that i've found after saturday so you can see it. Was very impressed with the company. Ordered Sunday and the stamp was here on Tuesday. Self inking 3cm square one for £16 all in. Looks similar to my avatar. When it arrived my wife asked why I didn't get a domino one so I could number my caches done on a day...now why didn't I think of that?

well i found a cache this afternoon but i couldn't find the stamp. Took about 30 mins when i got home to find it after the missus tidied up.

1.8k · March 4, 2005

Alibags wrote:

and mine's a flaying pig, with the word Alibags beneath it

The mind boggles... :huh:

I'll get me coat...

2.5k · March 5, 2005

oh bug... I mean Oh drat! :blink:

March 5, 2005

Here's what we got:

....hope this works - it does for eBay but I've not had much luck here!

Edited March 5, 2005 by Sue & Bernie

March 5, 2005

Here's what we got:

....hope this works - it does for eBay but I've not had much luck here!

Not working for me

March 5, 2005

...Nah! Nor for us either. The same "http://..." string that successfully drags in images for eBay does not work here. I click on the image button and paste in:

"http://web.onetel.net.uk/~berniekennedy/Pictures/SnB.jpg"

Any HTML experts care to point the way to what is not working?...

Edited March 5, 2005 by Sue & Bernie

March 5, 2005

If you type 'http://web.onetel.net.uk/~berniekennedy/Pictures/SnB.jpg' into a web browser, the result is a 404 -not found. The picture either isn't there, or isn't called what you think it is!

Hope this helps..

March 5, 2005

Conventional html tag is

Never tried it with the 'helper' on the forum but I see it offers to put the http:// in for you, so if you already have that in the url that you have captured, delete it from the wizard or you will have 2 lots of http.

Edited March 5, 2005 by kbootb

March 5, 2005

We'll try this:

...my FTP client change the name to lower case!

March 5, 2005

Yippee!

....and thank you all.

The stamp is not that big in real life!!!! The stamp is based on the design of the stickers we used to leave in logbooks. The stamp is actually 50mm x 35mm.

Handsome chap - doesn't do him justice!

Edited March 5, 2005 by Sue & Bernie

March 5, 2005

My stamp (and froderick the gnomad) at their first cache outing.

3.9k · March 5, 2005

Aha Andy, that goes some of the way to explaining one of your logs today....

.... the bit about Froderick throwing a snowball remains a mystery though...

March 5, 2005

well it wasn't me throwing the snowball was it? I wouldn't do a thing like that so it must have been froderick :-)

2.5k · March 6, 2005

and here's mine...

so now you can see my dreadful handwriting, you will see why the stamp!

March 7, 2005

...Ah! Do as we have - get one of the "make-it-up-yourself" self-inking stamps from Lidl/Aldi when they pop up as a regular feature. Cost around £2.99 (or of course you can go to a conventional stationary store and get one for considerably more eg Trodat Printy at £24 - we bought that one yonks back, BL - before Lidl).

You can set up your own message, up to 4 lines of text. The last one we bought had two sets of rubber type in different font sizes.

This stamp can spare you the formal, common bits of writing...

2.5k · March 7, 2005

Ah, you must be advocating a cache with...

"TNLN T4TC" on it?!

March 7, 2005

Took Nothing, Left Nothing....pass on the T for TC bit!

1.6k · March 7, 2005

For good value and a fast service, I found that

Custom Stamps Online

are excellent.

They will make your stamp from a logo / pic you send them i.e.

Including P&P just over a tenner. Self inking stamp.

3.3k · March 7, 2005

and here's mine...

so now you can see my dreadful handwriting, you will see why the stamp!

I hope you got a discount... that stamp of yours is crooked

2.5k · March 7, 2005

It's okay if you hold the stamp straight and rotate the world!

March 8, 2005

Thanks will try the service.....

All I need is a design... Any ideas anyone for me !

March 8, 2005

You and me both HH - I have been racking my brain to think of an Avatar/Stamp for myself......

Any suggestions welcome!!!!

Laughalot :rolleyes:

2.9k · March 8, 2005

Just ordered ours . Choosing the colour was the hard part :rolleyes:

1.1k · March 8, 2005

You and me both HH - I have been racking my brain to think of an Avatar/Stamp for myself......

Any suggestions welcome!!!!

Laughalot

It's right there in your username. A laughing knight. I'm thinking of something like the hokesters' current avatar, but laughing heartily.

I'd offer to do something, but I'm useless at drawing.

I expect House of Boo might take commissions though?

1.8k · March 8, 2005

Can someone please tell me if it is usual for letterboxes to have stamp pads as otherwise, if you only carry a selfinking stamp for yourself, you cannot stamp your own logbook. :rolleyes:

2.5k · March 8, 2005

Yes, I think letterboxes are supposed to have stamps inside them. The idea was that you would amass a personal collection of stamp impressions in your own logbook from letterboxes you had visited. Many of the stamps in these are/were unique designs.

Edited March 8, 2005 by Alibags

2.9k · March 8, 2005

Can someone please tell me if it is usual for letterboxes to have stamp pads as otherwise, if you only carry a selfinking stamp for yourself, you cannot stamp your own logbook.

Yes you need to take your own ink pad. Self inking stamps run out and dry up over time.

I suppose the next step is to get a stamp made out for all our existing caches. Glad i'm not called marcB :lol: :lol:

Edited March 8, 2005 by markandlynn

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