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Dink, I can make one for you. You can visit my shop here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/100831525/leather-bracelet-embossing-dies Thanks Steve

Hi Northquabbin, Plastic stamps work very well and are significantly less money than metal ones. I also make them and you can find my shop here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/100831525/leather-bracelet-embossing-dies If you have any questions about them, please feel free to send me an e-mail at: CustomMadeStuff@gmail.com Thanks Steve

Hi Ray, I agree with you that Tandy has has created a standardized form of stamp......and I'm certainly not trying to re-invent that. The majority of the Tandy stamps are less that 1" and very generic.......if you want a 3/4" shamrock stamp or a 1" stamp using one of their six available fonts, then Tandy is the way to go, no doubt about it. But what if you want a 4" letter using the Walt Disney font........or an 8" company logo.......or a 4" Damask pattern......or a whole poem? Tandy doesn't offer those......and never will. And if you want to spend $200 or more, then a metal stamp is also the way to go. But my dies are low-cost and designed for limited use or unique projects. Also, my dies do not require a mechanical press (although that would make it easier to use).......some of those pictures I posted were made using a mallet......and almost any of my dies can be used that way......just use the double sided tape technique to mount it on a small piece of stainless steel that I provide. For the "craft pasta machine".......just type that into Google and you will see a ton of them for sale for less than $25. They're usually sold to people using them for polymer clay.......but in effect, they are a small table top press......you can place one of my dies against a piece of leather (ie. like a coaster shape or a bookmark shape) and run it through the pasta machine......and in less than 2 seconds, your image is embossed on the leather. You could take that same die and run off 100 coasters in less than one hour. It's a neat little machine....but again, limited to six inch widths. You mention the "hobby press".......I guess that was kind of what I was looking for........the names of some of the publications that leathercrafters read and trust.

Hi Noah, Haha! You're gonna get me in trouble with Kate again! But to answer your question, it really depends on the size. The plastic itself is pretty thin (about 1/8" at it's thinnest). So it can be used in a clicker (if it's say a 1" round maker stamp), or it can be used with a craft pasta machine (if it's less than 6" wide.......perfect for coasters, bookmarks and belts), or it can be mounted on a thin piece of stainless steel and used with a table top vice (I bought one for less than $20) or hit with a mallet. For larger designs, I had to custom build my own stainless steel press (also not very expensive) that I assume I will have to make available to people who purchase the larger designs (however, it may need to be custom built depending on what the dimensions of the die are). Hope that answers your question, but I'm not sure how that would affect the marketing of the product. Steve

Hi Kate, Thanks for taking the time to reply. Please know that it was not my intention to try advertising in the forums.....I just assumed that the Marketing and Advertising section would be the appropriate place to ask my question and I was simply trying to give some background about myself since I only joined yesterday. I am a member of other forums and I can appreciate the fact that Members don't want advertisements clogging up a thread. I know it can also be a fine line between a legitimate post and an advertisement........and I will endeavor not to cross that line. Thanks again! Steve

Hi, I own a small sign business in NY. One of my customers approached me a few months back about making a sign out of leather. She wanted to emboss her logo into leather, so I came up with a process to make large inexpensive leather embossing dies. Now that I have perfected this process, I would like to market it to other leatherworkers and I'm trying to figure out the best way to reach/find them. I can make a leather embossing die out of almost any text font (I have over 6,000), any graphic, or any logo and soon......any photograph. I can make dies that are 1"x1" up to 24"x24". Whether it is a wedding monogram, a graphic of a lake for small tourist town, a family crest or a business logo for leather coasters......I think it will be popular with hobby and professional leatherworkers. So, other than a good website.........how do I reach out and find leatherworkers to target market to? I doubt I could ever get my dies into a Tandy store or their catalog......but their customers are the ones I need to reach. The only leatherworker magazine I have come across is Leather Crafters and Saddlers Journal....are there any others? I assume there must be leatherworking groups......but I can't seem to find any locally. So any advice that anyone can give me on the best way to find and market to leatherworkers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Steve

Hi Chris, It's a new proprietary process that I developed to make low cost leather embossing dies out of plastic. My next door neighbor is in the Air Force, so I was making some coasters for him.......but ideally, I want to make thousands of them to market to other Air Force people. If you want your own Air Force die, send me a message. Mike, Here's what happened when I tried to die the leather after embossing it......the image seems to wash out.....even though it is deep enough. Is there any way to get color into just the embossed areas? Thanks Steve

Hi, I'm new to leatherworking, so please be kind. I've started making plastic leather embossing dies and now I need an easy way to color and finish the leather items I would like to make. I'm attaching a picture of a coaster that I embossed and I would like to make the recessed areas blue. I bought a leather die and it make the whole piece blue. Does anyone have any advice as to how I can add a blue color to this? Thanks! Steve