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the lace looks nice and tight! Looks good!

Yeah its cotton i believe and the wallet would be for me (guy) and yeah I am very dirty at times considering what I do for a living. Thanks for the idea I will definatly do that! I also appreciate the positive feed back Ive gotten! I am in a holding pattern for the wallet. I'm waiting on some fiebings stuff. Ive not used it before. I want to dye the back red and use black antique. Gonna practice on some scraps first!

I am attempting to do my first wallet. All my pieces were drawn in autosketch and cut out a laser by me. So far I am using this project to learn how to hand sew, although I might have chosen a more difficult way to learn! I have taken my inspiration from the kk tuturial. The insides are pig embossed ostrich like 2-2.5oz and the tooling back is like 4-5 oz. the design is three images I found that i liked on the net and photoshopped together the way I wanted. Ive still got a way to go with it and I hope it all works out!

I guess just google custom laser shop and see what you come up with. I would be happy to see what you have and get it programmed up and see what we could come up with. I dont think it would be too expensive. Its all based on speed the faster we can cut the cheaper the part. At the end of the day though its worth it if you have like 1000 holes you need punched. Lasers love repetition.

yeah it doesnt take much I have to run ours at 20% power or less, but still they cost.

well they are out of the reach of personal use i would think. I just happen to work in a place with several lasers. I get to do my own projects on the side for free. I think that a new 3000 to 4000 watt laser would be around 600,000 depending on the options, and the 250-300 watt lasers would be around 220,000 depending on options. Galvo laser engravers might be around 175,000 im not to sure. So yeah they cost. This video is of our 50 watt wood engraver, its not marking leather but it would look the same. There are way better machines for doing this though. If you found a place similar to where I work at and you provided your own artwork and dimensions Im sure that there would be no charge for programming just laser time and maybe materials.

Yeah about the only thing that lasers shouldnt cut is vinyl. It gives off gas. Were I work we have 4 lasers, one is a 3000w trumpf its our big steel laser, the other three are about 200-300w lasers. We also have two galvo lasers for marking. We have been looking into a new italian galvo laser thats lightning fast its good for textile work. Ive been using a laser wood engraver to work on leather. This is an idea ive been kicking around for a dead musician guitar strap its not finished yet because my buddy ive been showing how to do the basics on is working on it. I got the musicians he wanted off google images and photoshopped em then engraved them onto the strap

A little town called hemlock, I live by hemlock lake.

Thanks I really appreciate it. There are so many things that I want to know how to do, but time and patience have to be checked. The laser is great to have in your back pocket, and as long as I can make up some patterns and then mock em up out of like cardboard or thin plastic I know I'm on the right track. Ive got some more pics I can post later on.

Hello. I've been wanting to get into leather work for some time now just didnt have the funds to get started. I have been at it for almost 6 months now. I have a few different tools in my toolbox than most. I work at a "laser chop shop". I cut program parts and cut them from steel and stainless steel, as well as wood, acrylic, mylar, cardboard, you name it. I have been experimenting cutting leather with it and it works just fine. I program all my cuts and holes and they cut perfect every time (unless I program it wrong lol). I will attach a few pics of stuff I have done since getting started. To see some videos of the lasers I use go to www.smidgensinc.com if your interested. I havent put up any vids of cutting leather yet. I am grateful to have found this forum, and am looking forward to learning all I can, as well as good and bad feed back. Roy