cheque_raise
Two Pair
is there a process for removing a hot stamp from a chip in order to put on new inlay? i was hoping not to have to us a drill press. i want there to be no evidence of the hotstamp being underneath the new label.
But why?
I think you’d be surprised
That is basically exactly what I was asking.. I haven’t seen one that has been thru a drill press that looks like a stock chip. But the exacto knife and nail polish remover looks pretty impressive.I dunno about @cheque_raise 's reasons, but from my perspective - all the milled chips I've seen in pictures would bug the ever-living snot out of me if I owned them (or so I speculate - I haven't actually seen any in person). It seems to me like the milled recess is an obvious artifact, an alteration in the chip's "natural" form as produced by the original compression mold, distinct from the very slight recess produced by the mold within the molded circle. The artificial recess is deep, has a smaller diameter than the original molded interior circle / recess boundary, and is usually off-center (by necessity) both with the mold and with the chip edge.
If I ever want to relabel hotstamps, I suspect I'd want to try sanding down the hotstamp rather than milling it out. That sounds like a crazy amount of work, though, so I probably won't ever do that.
I think you've never handled a well milled chip. If done right, it's nearly unnoticeable... I will say normally people go way too deep....I dunno about @cheque_raise 's reasons, but from my perspective - all the milled chips I've seen in pictures would bug the ever-living snot out of me if I owned them (or so I speculate - I haven't actually seen any in person). It seems to me like the milled recess is an obvious artifact, an alteration in the chip's "natural" form as produced by the original compression mold, distinct from the very slight recess produced by the mold within the molded circle. The artificial recess is deep, has a smaller diameter than the original molded interior circle / recess boundary, and is usually off-center (by necessity) both with the mold and with the chip edge.
If I ever want to relabel hotstamps, I suspect I'd want to try sanding down the hotstamp rather than milling it out. That sounds like a crazy amount of work, though, so I probably won't ever do that.
That is basically exactly what I was asking.. I haven’t seen one that has been thru a drill press that looks like a stock chip. But the exacto knife and nail polish remover looks pretty impressive.