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I believe this was answered somewhere before but I can't find it.

Who makes custom headstamps?

I want to be able to headstamp brass 10,75x52R Springer myself as I do not want to order 10,000 from starline in order to do it.

RMC will make the cases and headstamp them anyway you wish.

old colonel,
I suggest you talk to an engraver(Erik Boessler did this type work, between guns, before he passed away).If the cost is too much,maybe he would engrave enough cases cheaper.An alternate would be to talk to a machinist about making a jig to use standard number/letter stamps. The jig would have to "locate" the stamp and "index"the case.Such a jig would be very slow, but would be very adaptable for differing headstamps.
Mike

I have looked at RMC and determined cost per case is astronomical. There has to be a machine shop or such somehere who could make a die set up for a do it yourself.

I talked to Starline, but hey will only talk you buying 10,000 cases from them and they keep all the tooling you pay for extra.

I am sure someone at sometime has done this work somewhere, I just have to find them

I wonder if a trophy engraver could do them? A lot of their machines are computerized now, and once the lettering on the correct radius is saved from a trial, it should be repeatable. A simple fixture would be all that's needed to hold the case in the engraver.

Stamping them, either with individual letter and number stamps or with a one piece stamp that holds the complete mark, can upset the case head & primer pocket quite a bit.
You are displacing metal and it has to go somewhere.


It takes a lot of force to imprint with a single unit stamp having all that lettering on it.
During mfg, the case is held in a die to control deformation and additional processes are done after the marking to insure dimensions are correct.

A pantograph , either a drag or rotary cut might work OK.
As Mike says most of the equipment is computerized now, even the trophys shop stuff.

If there are existing headstamp(s) on the brass it will show under the new marking.

Try a laser engraver.

I think I am back to my initial solution which is to suck it up and order 10,000 from Starline. At least they will be stamped correctly and be properly sized so I do not have to trim them. This assumes I really want to drop the dime to do it, which as of this time is no.

What's the big deal about properly stamped ammo?
Is the rifle so marked?
Is it headed to Africa?
Many wildcats aren't properly stamped here and they shoot just fine.

Kutter,
In my "accumulation",I have an example of very early post WW2 German commercial hunting ammo, that was made from military brass. The military headstamp numbers were removed(trepanning)and new numbers stamped in their place.This resulted in numbers in a groove, but didn't seem to have bad effects. I don't know if a single stamp was used, but I guess it was, since this was a factory operation.The numbers seemed to have been lightly stamped, perhaps out of concern for displacing metal.Mike