Young Brothers # 03365 (36 character set.)
"Made in the USA" steel stamp set. I held off on buying an import set of stamps for a long time wanting to get a fairly decent set that would last and hold up against harder materials. Young Brothers claim that these stamps are good for materials up to 50 Rockwell C.
After opening the box I think that a set of import stamps might have been the better way to go. These look horrible. Every stamp is covered in some kind of black chunks and goo. It sort of looks like weld spatter although it is not. They will all have to be scrubbed clean on a wire wheel. (You can't really see it in my last pic because the batteries died in my camera.)
The width of the font lines are different on different stamps. Some characters are thick and some are thin. The "4", "R" and "&" are thinner than the surrounding letters. The bevels on the stamps are ground unevenly and haphazardly leaving some of the characters off center on the end of the stamps. The letter "I" is on a slant and not aligned with square body of the stamp.
There are supposed to be 3 "thumb grooves" on each of the stamps to get a good hold on them. All of these grooves were ground by hand with a cut-off wheel. Some straight, some slanted, some ground too deep, and some barely scratched the surface. Spacing of the grooves is all over the place. Many of them are ground right through the lettering stamped into the shanks themselves. Not to mention those stamps are VERY poorly done and again many are double and triple stamped to the point where you can even read them. (Character and font size.)
I haven't tried using them yet but I know I won't be buying anything else from Young Brothers.
"Made in the USA" steel stamp set. I held off on buying an import set of stamps for a long time wanting to get a fairly decent set that would last and hold up against harder materials. Young Brothers claim that these stamps are good for materials up to 50 Rockwell C.
After opening the box I think that a set of import stamps might have been the better way to go. These look horrible. Every stamp is covered in some kind of black chunks and goo. It sort of looks like weld spatter although it is not. They will all have to be scrubbed clean on a wire wheel. (You can't really see it in my last pic because the batteries died in my camera.)
The width of the font lines are different on different stamps. Some characters are thick and some are thin. The "4", "R" and "&" are thinner than the surrounding letters. The bevels on the stamps are ground unevenly and haphazardly leaving some of the characters off center on the end of the stamps. The letter "I" is on a slant and not aligned with square body of the stamp.
There are supposed to be 3 "thumb grooves" on each of the stamps to get a good hold on them. All of these grooves were ground by hand with a cut-off wheel. Some straight, some slanted, some ground too deep, and some barely scratched the surface. Spacing of the grooves is all over the place. Many of them are ground right through the lettering stamped into the shanks themselves. Not to mention those stamps are VERY poorly done and again many are double and triple stamped to the point where you can even read them. (Character and font size.)
I haven't tried using them yet but I know I won't be buying anything else from Young Brothers.
Willie