[Jewelry making - Article 00067] - Re: [Orchid] Best material to stamp against?

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    Steel rule die cutting uses tempered or un tempered Masonite,
    Depending on whether it is machine or hand cutting same with the use
    of gasket punches or leather working punches. It protects the
    cutting edge will give a little too. The un tempered more than the
    tempered. The clicker presses in leather work use the UHMW plastic
    or thick red or black rubber sheeting. It is gasket or diaphragm
    material. 

    Along the plastic line a trade name of Sintra that is used in model
    making and signs is a hard surface soft in side material that will
    support yet give you can try. As it takes a good impression in it
    own right. 

    Low melting metals that can be used as a backing. McMasters-Carr has
    a whole range that go from the melting in a pot of boiling water to
    the exotic for price. 

glen
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