In this part of the tutorial we make the wooden handle for the stamper and we put the two parts together.

Part 1 of this tutorial is here

For the handle part of the stamper you have a wide variety of choices. You can use an old handle from a file, saw, or other tool. Or you can use a one inch diameter wooden dowel (mine is black at the top of the picture). The wooden dowel is what I will go with for this tutorial.

I cut the dowel to three and a half inches (3 1/2). This is about a good size. You can cut your piece to any length you want.

Now start with some rasping and sanding tools to shape it.

Some more sandpapering and rasping and we have pretty much the final shape. The black color is just left over paint from the scrap piece of dowel. I removed most of it with sand paper but left the bottom part black.

You have a couple of options from here. You can polish it up with some stain or some tung oil. You can even leave it plain wood.

Or you can paint some details on it first, before staining and finishing it. I masked it off with some red tape then painted in some nice gold detail lines.

Now let's glue the medallion to the handle.

Sand the back side of it so it is reasonably flat and smooth. This will help it adhere better to the handle. You should sand the flat end of the handle too. Wipe it all off so there is no loose grit on the surfaces to be glued.

Ok! Let's glue it. This will depend on the type of glue that you are going to use. I am using a gorilla glue that is good for multi surfaces. And it recommends that the surfaces be moistened first so that's what I did . Then I applied a liberal amount of glue to one of the surfaces as shown here.

Now let's affix the two parts together.

A couple of rubber bands will hold it nice and tight while the glue dries. That's it. We have made it.

Now lets' continue on and actually do the wax sealing of an envelope.

Classic 26 letter A-Z Alphabet Initial Assorted Color Sealing Seal Wax Stamp Post Decorative

Here is a great alternative to buying sealing wax. You can buy sticks for your hot glue gun:

Dark (Cranberry) Red Flexible Glue Gun Sealing Wax - 7 Sticks

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