Hand-carved rubber stamps need to use engraved rubber bricks. Ordinary rubber is not unable to carve, but one of the ordinary rubber size is generally not large enough; two ordinary rubber soft hardness is not uniform, is not very suitable for carving; three, the actual calculation, the rubber brick is cheaper than the ordinary rubber (all refer to domestic).

Novice just into the rubber stamp pit, usually use pure white rubber brick, called "big white". Later came out of an imitation of Japanese products, two-color brick, is a few millimeters of the brick surface is yellow or blue, the following is still white, carved to facilitate the distinction between yin and yang lines are also very beautiful. Japan's original carved rubber bricks, although the quality is better than domestic, but very expensive, business card size of the price of about 30 yuan, non-general consumers can afford. Domestic launch of a variety of two-color rubber bricks. Which can be revealed sandwich rubber bricks and can not be revealed sandwich rubber bricks. 15 * 10 can not be revealed sandwich price of two to six dollars. The same size can be revealed slightly higher prices, generally to five dollars and above.

Transparent "jelly" rubber and "cool powder" rubber, for export rubber, this rubber is slightly harder than ordinary rubber brick, just started carving is not recommended to use, the price is higher, jelly 10 * 15 size of the price of about 14 yuan! The price is higher, the price of jelly 10 * 15 size is about 14 yuan, and the cool skin is about 22 yuan. Now there are also domestic "cool skin", and Japanese production is not very different, the price is lower. The handle makes it easier to pick up the stamp, and the force applied when stamping is more even, so that the stamped design gets the best results.

General handle for wood, cork and acrylic, but also the use of paper clay, wine corks, spools and even tiles, as long as it can be bonded with rubber stamps on the line, in short, the material is randomly varied, creative. Down the knife: it is recommended to be 45 ° to push outward, not easy to hurt themselves. There are also pulled inward. This needs to be slowly practiced out and find the right feeling for yourself. There is a turning place is basically turn rubber, turn the knife if the line is easy to crooked. More look at the video of each station on the line.

Lines: Generally speaking, newcomers can start from the thick lines, slowly practicing feel, and then you can carve fine lines.

White space: there are flat white space, rubbing, jeweled white space (also known as triangular white space), lattice white space (also known as waffle white space), flower white space. Flower whiteout refers to the carving of flowers and other things on the basis of flat whiteout, not printed out, mainly for the finished product to look good or modify the flat whiteout. According to personal preference or habit, generally speaking, large pieces of finished product without cutting off the outside are used flat white. The inside of the pattern is rubbed or lattice, generally speaking, the use of lattice white can practice the feel of the knife.

Cutting knife: the general use of small yellow, small black, very fine, and small pearl, large pearl press pen knife and so on. Small yellow blade is very sharp, the price of roughly 25-30.