Stamping Metal Spoons

Kevie192

Hi all,

I recently bought a lovely hand-stamped spoon for a christening present for my niece.

When I got it I couldn't help but think about how great it would be if I learned to do this and stamped spoons to use as gift tags on hampers or stamp out some garden markers and give them to green-fingered friends for gifts. There are so many possibilities for these!

I've found a tutorial for them here but I wondered if anyone on here had tried them and, if so, which stamps you used? There seem to be loads available at all different prices...

Thanks,

Kevin

Scrapmate

You are talking of metal stamping as opposed to rubber stamping. Sorry I can't help but there are a lot of metal embossing tools out there.

iammumtoone

Hello

I have tried this, it is not as easy as it looks

My dad has a set of those metal letters so I borrowed them, got a teaspoon out of the kitchen drawer and off I went with my hammer! I don't know what went wrong I think it may have been that the teaspoons were the wrong metal (ie cheap). But I could not get a tidy indent into the spoon. You have reminded me that I meant to give it another go sometime, next time I see Dad I will ask for the stamps again.

Good luck if you try it, let us know how you get on.

Kevie192

Thanks

I read somewhere it only really works with silver plated cutlery as the metal underneath is quite soft... Did you use stainless steel or similar?

Cheers,

Kevin

iammumtoone

Kevie192 wrote: »

Thanks

I read somewhere it only really works with silver plated cutlery as the metal underneath is quite soft... Did you use stainless steel or similar?

Cheers,

Kevin

Ah that would be it, I certainly wouldn't have any silver plated in my cutlery drawer! Don't think I will be trying it again then, I couldn't afford silver plated in case I made a mistake :eek:

Kevie192

You can get silver plated in charity shops pretty cheap, as well as on eBay etc That's where I intend to get mine from anyway!

iammumtoone

Kevie192 wrote: »

You can get silver plated in charity shops pretty cheap, as well as on eBay etc That's where I intend to get mine from anyway!

Thanks I always find with ebay the postage (especially now) makes things more expensive. I will look in charity shops though thanks, how will I tell if they are silver plated? I take it they would be stamped? I will have to google to see what the stamp looks like.

Chris25

I've tried this & it can be quite hard - I've used silver plated knives & spoons, a rubber hammer to flatten the bowl & some metal alphabet dies that I bought specifically for this.

I think that sterling silver is the best as that's softer and more malleable than plated silver. Some of the plated ones I used cracked around the edges of the spoon bowl whereas the silver one didn't.

Another tip is to go over the stamped letter with a black sharpie then wipe clean - it makes the letters stand out more.

You see these in quite a few US & Canadian blogs but they seem to be able to pick up pieces of sterling silver cutlery cheaply at their thrift shops - whereas here it costs a fortune - if you can find an old one lurking somewhere .