postage stamp blanks

[aggromere]

is there anyone that makes or sells blanks like the computer circuit board, snake skin or carbon fiberblanks that has postage stamps in them? I need to make a pen as a gift for a postman that is also a stamp collector. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[rjwolfe3]

Penn State just had a video on You Tube with a really simple and easy way to make your own. I do not believe it involved any casting.

 

[ngeb528]

PSI sells the stamps to make the pens.

 

[DozerMite]

I made one a while back for a stamp collector friend. I used some pretty rare stamps from what he said. Didn't use the actual stamps though, I scanned them and then printed them out.

 

[DurocShark]

I made one a while back for a stamp collector friend. I used some pretty rare stamps from what he said. Didn't use the actual stamps though, I scanned them and then printed them out.

That's a good way to get one of the uber-rare stamps into a pen!

 

[PR_Princess]

If you used real stamps in the pen, would you still have to pay postage to mail it???:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::wink:

 

[JohnU]

Last year I started gathering some stamps and was going to try and come up with a nice pen..... and then I seen someone was selling the blanks and I pushed the stamps aside. Hoping someday to finish one of those darn things.

 

[NewLondon88]

If you used real stamps in the pen, would you still have to pay postage to mail it???:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::wink:

"If the Pope pushed over Howdy Doody in the woods and there was
no one around but one hand clapping, would Rose Kennedy get
bear **** on her black dress? I think I've made my point."
--Thaddeus N. Gunn

 

[bruce119]

I just went on a buying spree of all kinds of postage stamps

Saving stamps- S&H Green Stamps,King Korn Stamps, Eagle Stamps

And a boat load of cigar labels.





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[gketell]

Do a search on here. Someone did a stamp pen a long time ago and he had quite a trial to get it to work. I remember he ended up sealing the stamps on the tube before casting but I don't remember what he sealed them with.

GK

 

[Chris Bar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv1WoQtwVVE

Think this might be it. Have at least one stamp here from over 300 countries in the world...from ham radio QSL card virus :biggrin:. Think I can make some nice pens...or bowls...or something perhaps! If I only knew how to make a bowl. If I pay for lessons, I would at least expect instruction on the skew!

 

[psilevy]

Making a postage stamp pen

Here's the link to the stamp set and pen making video. Can get there postage free.

http://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKPS4.html
Ed
Penn State
(PS I made the video - contact me for any info you need)

 

[rjwolfe3]

Ed
That was a great video. I will be trying that out soon.