There are two simple tests you can try to determine whether the leather is chrome, or vegetable-tanned. I’m certainly no leather expert but I found some information about testing for vegetable tanned leather on. When shopping, you’ll want to purchase vegetable tanned leather. The main ways that leather is tanned is through vegetable tanning or chrome tanning. What You Need to Know About Lasering Leather While he hasn’t fully recovered, he’s doing well right now. If you don’t know me from Cutting for Business – my husband was diagnosed with a life threatening illness last year. I recently made my husband and I matching leather engraved bracelets to celebrate the advances we’ve recently had with his health. This gives the inserts a nice shine and protective coating.I’ve been focusing the Made with Forge blog on beginner related tutorials with the Glowforge because I think it is important to become a master of the easy projects before you can become a master of the harder ones. I then use VERY fine sand paper to remove any scorch marks and then apply a heat activated friction polish (carnuba wax works good as well).
(This way the pieces are placed exactly as needed to engrave).įinally after engraving, I take the leather cutouts and place them on a lathe with double stick tape. Remove the cutout pieces and then remove tape and reverse the cutouts and put them back into the circle. Make sure you secure the leather to the grate so that it can't moveĤ.
Place the leather into the machine taped side down. Apply blue painters tape to the side that is to be engraved.Ģ.
So this little trick is easy for me since the cutouts are all the same and no weird shapes.ġ. I cut and engrave a large number of 1.5" circles that I use for inserts into some of my products that I sell. If you have ever cut or engraved leather you know that it has a tendency to burn around the edges.
Here is a little trick that I use to cut and engrave leather shapes.
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