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    I made two shields a few weeks ago. They were my first leather work of any kind as well.

    First one, I carved, dyed black, painted with acrylic, and topped with 50/50 Resolene/Water. Not sure how well that one's going to hold up. Second one I did like rawhide described. Letters cut from leather & epoxied on, everything else saddle stitched by hand with waxed thread and two needles. Wore this one in a training fire last weekend. It held up pretty well through almost certainly the worst conditions it'll ever see.

    Got almost everything from Springfield leather. I highly recommend them, they're great. I got 2 lbs tooling leather remnants which came with a bunch of really nice leather, in perfect sizes for things like shields. Hard to beat for $4/lb.

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    I am by no means an expert on any of this, but it appears to me that the smaller letters are probably laser cut, as there appears to be some burn marks on the unfinished one.

    Yea I noticed that too. I wonder if I drew up some alphabets in CAD and took it to a machine shop with a laser if I could get it cut reasonably?

    The ENG and INE look like they were carved and beveled inverted to me. Ross

    Agreed. The small letters are really the only part I haven't figured out (sorry, should have specified that). I really like the look & have never seen it done before. Other shields just use cheap vinyl cut decals there.

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    I would hazard a guess that it is done with a clicker and dies. It is literally a bent piece of steel, sharpened on the down edge, arranged to be a closed loop that IS the shape of your object.

    If you can think of cutting biscuits with a milk glass, . . . it is the same concept, . . . except it uses very sharp steel made into a design, . . . and either an air powered or hydraulic powered press.

    They're not exactly inexpensive either.

    Looks like that Tippmann machine is just a couple heavy duty C clamps and a pneumatic air bag. Not sure why they'd go pneumatic over hydraulic for this application, I'm sure there must be some reason.

    I own a 20 ton hydraulic shop press. With the correct cutting board, sandwiched between 2 large arbor plates, I think it should work just as well. Do you know of a source for dies?

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