{"id":6545,"date":"2010-04-12T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2010-04-08T07:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:43:23","slug":"diy-wax-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6545","title":{"rendered":"DIY Wax Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/seal.jpg\" alt=\"Seal\" title=\"Seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I love the elegant look of wax seals, but it&#8217;s sometimes difficult (or expensive) to find the perfect design.  The RageHaus blog has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/ragehaus.com\/?p=1215\">tutorial<\/a> on making a custom seal using a wooden dowel.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is incised with a wood-burning tool, so unless you have a very steady hand you might not be able to get the same kind of fiddly little detail that you would with a cast metal stamp.  If you don&#8217;t have a wood-burning tool, I expect that it might also be possible to carve the design with an X-Acto knife or a small Dremel tool.<\/p>\n<p>The technique should be fine for things like monogram initials in the font of your choice or patterns with a fairly simple outline (say, bats rather than intricate spiderwebs).  Making your own is certainly cheaper than having a custom stamp designed for you, and the dowel should hold up much longer than stamps made of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousgood.com\/?page_id=64\">linoleum<\/a> or other soft materials.<\/p>\n<p>The DIY method gives you great flexibility in matching a seal to its intended purpose: The invitations for each party you throw could have different themed seals, and RPG props, Halloween decorations, or special documents could all benefit from a seal with an appropriate design.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/\">MAKE<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the elegant look of wax seals, but it&#8217;s sometimes difficult (or expensive) to find the perfect design. The RageHaus blog has a great tutorial on making a custom seal using a wooden dowel. The pattern is incised with a wood-burning tool, so unless you have a very steady hand you might not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}