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kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1253
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 19, 2006 - 7:12 pm: | 
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Only because of the internet did I discover a gem of a business...right here in our own backyard!
I needed a simple rubber stamp.
I have spoken to office supply stores, gift shops, stationery stores. Everyone sends it out, charges a fortune and takes 2-3 weeks.
I needed an elaborate line of text on a simple rubber stamp to make 400 gift tags for a project I am working on. I also needed the stamp ASAP.
One Google search later I discovered "Acme Rubber Stamp Works" on Burnett Avenue (two doors off of Springfield Avenue.)
In less than 24 hours they produced two stamps for me, charged me next to nothing and then sold me some neato ink pads as well!
I highly reccommend this business...it is so very retro.
I think all my children's party invitations and thank-you notes will be written on homemade notecards from here on out.
They can make a stamp out of any text or line drawing.
Way cool. |
Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 496
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 8:11 am: |
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Cool! Do they do custom only or do they have pre-made
stuff ready to sell too? |
kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1255
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 9:10 am: |
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They are not set up like the rubber stamp dept. at Michael's. I don't know if they have anything pre-made....other than "PAID" or "RECEIVED". The shop is little more than a counter with an ancient rubber stamp-making machine behind it!
They could fabricate anything you design though. |
jem
Citizen
Username: Jem
Post Number: 1544
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 9:52 am: |
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I discovered them fairly recently, too. Same experience - quick turnaround. And I LOVE the retro feel of the place - the high tin ceiling and the whole setup reminds me of some of the old stores in the town I grew up in in the 1950's. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7447
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 4:33 pm: |
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We've been using them for years. Great business. Great people. |
Jersey_Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 873
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 10:53 pm: |
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"Acme Rubber Stamp Works?"
Beep! Beep!
J.B. |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 9474
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 10:26 am: |
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I take it they can work from an eps file? |
kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1261
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 10:49 am: |
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If .eps is a file extension name you will be SOL.
I don't think they even have a push-button telephone in the place!
Take in a B/W print of the image and they work from that. |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 9475
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 10:50 am: |
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Got it. Thanks. |
catmanjac
Citizen
Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 222
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 4:28 pm: |
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I don't know if it has been owned by the same person, but my father, and then I have used them for almost forty years. |
Jersey girl
Citizen
Username: Critterlover
Post Number: 42
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 7:47 pm: |
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Yes, they are wonderful. Exactly the folks who make our towns such wonderful places to live!
Jersey Girl |
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