| Rubber was discovered in the Amazon River Basin in | | | | some artistic abilities. You must collect the following |
| 1736 by the French explorer Charles Marie de la | | | | materials to make the stamp. The items include latex |
| Condamine. Cubes were made of the substance and | | | | rubber, wood for the mounting blocks, |
| used for rubbing out lead pencil marks, but the | | | | adhesive-backed padding that is placed between the |
| material was unstable. Charles Goodyear discovered a | | | | rubber and the block, and adhesive-backed labels. |
| use for the rubber and patented his invention in 1844. | | | | You will also a need a carving knife. All of these items |
| The process he invented is called vulcanization. When | | | | are produced by specialty manufacturers who supply |
| Charles Marie de la Condamine discovered rubber he | | | | them to rubber stamp makers. |
| also discovered another problem. When the | | | | A basic rubber stamp is to carve out the image you |
| temperature rose the rubber changed from a firm | | | | want on the latex rubber or even a large eraser. |
| hard surface to a jelly like substance. Charles | | | | Make sure the image is raised on the surface. You will |
| Goodyear wanted to use the rubber for something | | | | have to carve out around the image to make sure |
| during hot temperatures as well as cold. As most | | | | the image is raised. The last part of making the |
| discoveries, Charles Goodyear had an accident in the | | | | stamp is to use adhesive tape and connect the |
| lab and the invention of making rubber stay hard no | | | | rubber stamp to the wooden block. Once you have |
| matter the temperature was discovered. | | | | your stamp made press onto ink or paint then onto |
| Multiple people claim to have invented the rubber | | | | the surface you want the permanent stamp. |
| stamp by 1860. A furniture maker for Illinois putting a | | | | A more difficult rubber stamp is using the |
| mark/stamp on all the products he made to a dentist | | | | vulcanization process. You will need someone that |
| in New York making molds for dentures. Either way | | | | knows the process of heating the rubber image in a |
| the rubber stamp was created by using the process | | | | vulcanizer to perform this process. This stamp would |
| of vulcanization to keep the rubber hard in all | | | | be a better quality stamp that would be able to use |
| temperatures. | | | | multiple times. |
| Making a rubber stamp isn't very difficult if you have | | | | |