I just love metal stamps. I was introduced to these by Brody Neuenschwander who used these texturally in his work on gessoed board, but as far as I know (quite wisely) never nerdishly hammered out sentences, never mind whole tracts of text. He also used 6mm or 8mm stamps. These stamps are designed to stamp engine serial numbers into metal for machines. I've used them on copper, gold leaf and on paper.
You can buy them at a machine shop like Machine Mart and they are made by Clarke. I have 2mm, 3mm and my favourite size, 4mm. You can see on the D where I stamped into gold. I made a little alphabet holder to speed up my tracts of text and, yes, it takes a while, but so does writing letters individually in calligraphy.
I really like the results! I deliberately allow the letters to be a little informally bounced as this gives it a hands-on feel. This was the first piece that I did for the LX exhibition. I made three pieces in the end and found it very difficult to choose one of them!
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