Subject: I intend to try it over Christmas.
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Posted on: 2015-11-30 19:55:00 UTC

It's not like I have a shortage of materials, with all this chocolate lying around...!

I'm thinking dowel is the best option. It wouldn't take too long to slice off disks - really fast if you have an electric saw, of course, but even without it's not long. Then you sand down the edges (if you want), and... hrm. Given that it's not feasible to create metal stamps (for me, I mean)...

Well, there's pyrography. You can buy a set for less than £15 (or about one half-mark), and while it would mean doing them by hand, are Hold/Hall marks that tricky? ('Overlined number' is very simple, of course.) Alternately, I'm wondering whether thick wire could be bent into shape and used as a rudimentary stamp (ie, hammered into the wood).

Then you stain or varnish to get a decent colour... this really wouldn't be hard to do.

hS, a schemer

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