Hanko creation
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@arghc "Stamp filament" is a type of 3D printing filament that can retain ink, and is useful for making stamps, like hankos. I bought a spool of it when I had access to a 3D printer. But both it and the 3D printer are now in Tennessee (almost 500 miles away), so the project is pretty much on hold for now.
For those who don't want to make their own hanko stamps, they're available from a number of sources, including Amazon's various online stores.
They're kind of useless for signing for things nowadays, when everything is just thrown on your porch, but it might be fun to use them at conventions.
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@someoldguy said in Hanko creation:
@arghc "Stamp filament" is a type of 3D printing filament that can retain ink, and is useful for making stamps, like hankos. I bought a spool of it when I had access to a 3D printer. But both it and the 3D printer are now in Tennessee (almost 500 miles away), so the project is pretty much on hold for now.
For those who don't want to make their own hanko stamps, they're available from a number of sources, including Amazon's various online stores.
They're kind of useless for signing for things nowadays, when everything is just thrown on your porch, but it might be fun to use them at conventions.
Googling "stamp filament" does not (immediately) turn up someone marketing filament as such.
This person tested a bunch of options. They decided:
The final verdict: If you’re willing to work with horrible smelling resins and suffer though learning how to print with it, flexible resin is the clear winner for 3D printed stamps.
Sparkfun used Ninjaflex.
Searching for "3d printing hanko" doesn't bring up much useful and searching for the google translated "ハンコフィラメント3Dプリント " brings up difficult to parse results that one clickthru didn't turn out to be useful so I gave up on that for now. 8-)
Reading Bookworm, Bibliophile, and Dahlia. Also, Girl Genius, xkcd, Witch Hat, Harpy Gee, and Suitor Armor. Looking for suggestions.
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@arghc I've put an inquiry in with the person who currently has my spool to get the type/numbers off of it. I picked it up a the local MicroCenter maybe 4 or 5 years ago. It was standard stock for them at the time, but their inventory on shelves has dropped quite a bit since then.
The specific properties were its porosity (to hold ink) and flexibility, which means it may be nylon, but I'll wait until I know for certain. For all I know, it might have been discontinued over the years... If it IS nylon, that has its own issues.
There are limits on how small the lettering can be for 3D printed magic circles hankos, though.
OK, additional information.
The UPC number on the spool (UPC 618996196197) leads to a page that describes it as "Inland 1.75mm Flexible Natural 3d Printer Filament", shipped "Vacuumed Sealed With Desiccant".
I haven't tracked it down yet, but the description brings up both PLA and ABS filaments, with different numbers.
But, I now know I'll have to get a dryer for it before I use it, because the spool has been sitting in an open box all this time...
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@someoldguy said in Hanko creation:
The UPC number on the spool (UPC 618996196197) leads to a page that describes it as "Inland 1.75mm Flexible Natural 3d Printer Filament", shipped "Vacuumed Sealed With Desiccant".
I haven't tracked it down yet, but the description brings up both PLA and ABS filaments, with different numbers.
Thanks so much for going the extra miles to look that up!
Reading Bookworm, Bibliophile, and Dahlia. Also, Girl Genius, xkcd, Witch Hat, Harpy Gee, and Suitor Armor. Looking for suggestions.
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@arghc I didn't go any extra miles - I used my null spell Long Sense on my smart phone to see the spool in TN. :)
