Re: RE: [Harp-L] Re: embossing

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Blunt White wrote:
> Thin shim stock might be able to be purchased from a local 
> machine shop that fabricates plasitic injection and blow 
> molding tooling.  It is also used by plastic injection 
> molders to shim mold cavities into position in a mold 
> base.  I used to work in the mold room and we had sheets of 
> .001 and even thinner, cut with sissors and place behind 
> mold cavities and presto the halves fit tight again.

Wow, I just buy 0.002" shim stock at the hardware store.  When I want a 
lot, I buy 6x18" sheets of it from Small Parts (www.smallparts.com).

-tim