All of stamps are made to an excellent standard, allowing them to be used to make plain stamped nail holes from start to finish. However, if you want to keep the perfect shape of these stamps for longer, you should first start the nail hole with an old stamp, one that is more square shaped than normal (a starter stamp). The squareness of the initial stamp is to allow you to forge out any blips/frog eyes that may form on the flat steel’s edge without making your nail hole too rectangular, then use the nice finishing stamp to polish the nail hole.