Experimenting with Cloning a Stamp

After a couple of posts on making stamps, I started to wonder how you would clone a stamp?  Do mass producers of stamps really go through this process for each stamp?  After seeing some of the stamps on the shelves I would guess that they would make a mold and fill it with photopolymers and then zap it with UV light.  Some photopolymer stamps have two colors of resin in them (black and clear) and you could do that if you had a mold.

I decided to try and make a mold of my last stamp, the panda from my post, Testing 3D Printed Stamps.   There are many methods and products that can make molds and I’m going to start by trying one of the least expensive methods: silicone caulk molds.

silicone mold making supplies

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