Back in the early days of stamp making at the Rubber Stamp Champ, custom made rubber hand stamps were produced on a machine called a vulcanizer.  At least that is how the stamp dies were made.

This process was a far cry from the laser engraving we do today on all stamp dies for traditional rubber hand stamps, or wood mounted stamps as they are often called, and for our self inking stamps as well.

But back when the RubberStampChamp.com first began, the owners took orders and made stamps, instead of producing effective marketing campaigns like they do today.

At that time, the process for making hand stamp rubber stamp dies was a lot more rudimentary.  Initially, a hard polymer version of the stamp die would be produced.  This hard polymer die was then used to create a matrix board, by pressing the hard polymer die under heat in the vulcanizer, into the matrix board.

The final die would be produced, again using the heat and pressure provided by the vulcanizer, to press red rubber into the matrix board, and then we would ultimately strip the dies off the board, cut them out and mount them to wooden stamps.