Tips For Inlaying Lettering

[harnessman]

Hi All

I have a customer who has requested his name inlayed into the back of belt. I have never done any inlay work before so any tips would be appreciated. To start the ball rolling here are a couple of immediate questions that I have, Oh, the belt is made out of a double thickness of 8oz bridle leather stitched togeather and is 4 inches wide and the customers name is SANTA! Yep that is right, I am working for the big guy this summer!

Do you glue the inlay leather to the front piece, and stitch it down, or do you glue to the back piece and then stitch through the entire thing?

Any tips on cutting out, lettering will be a fat script? Other than patience and a very sharp knife?

Inlay will be 2oz kid is this to thick? I do plan on skiving the edges so they blend into the belt

Thank you in advance.

Jim

[pete]

Hi All

I have a customer who has requested his name inlayed into the back of belt. I have never done any inlay work before so any tips would be appreciated. To start the ball rolling here are a couple of immediate questions that I have, Oh, the belt is made out of a double thickness of 8oz bridle leather stitched togeather and is 4 inches wide and the customers name is SANTA! Yep that is right, I am working for the big guy this summer!

Do you glue the inlay leather to the front piece, and stitch it down, or do you glue to the back piece and then stitch through the entire thing?

Any tips on cutting out, lettering will be a fat script? Other than patience and a very sharp knife?

Inlay will be 2oz kid is this to thick? I do plan on skiving the edges so they blend into the belt

Thank you in advance.

Jim

Glue the kid to the back piece- no sense in getting glue to squirt out on the front from underneath. I think that 2 8oz plus 2 oz might be a bit thick, but it sounds like a decorative, over the clothes kind of belt.

Maybe 8 front, 4 back and the 2 in the middle.

POST IT WHEN YOU"RE DONE!!!!!!!

pete