Girdle book stamping with experimental new stamps
So had a bit of a play with some new stamps and mostly happy, the key thing I have found is it hard to get things lined up carefully when using gold foil as you cannot see where the others are exactly. Temperature of your tool has to be perfect to get the correct adhesion for gold foil to work. Also its had to stamp at the bottom of the book on a girdle book where you have the little leather over the edge of the boards to protect the boards as it does for a ridge which does't work nicely when stamping, so would suggest either stamping slightly lower down so you still have a smooth surface to stamp. The gold work is less forgiving than blind tooling when it comes to being not straight as it really draws your eye to it. On black leather even more so.
