Hello friends, I have a couple questions if i may. I'm new to leather working, and i bought, for practice, some precut veg-tan wristbands from tandy. They are thin, 4-5 oz, and i have read in places that stamping thinner leather makes it stretch. I've read about using masking tape or something similar on the back.
Therefore, in my inexperience I ask, what is the best way to keep the thinner leather from stretching while being stamped? After casing properly that is. Or is it that before casing you already have attached something to the back? Perhaps this step is unnecessary altogether, which is why I am quite lost on whether to do it or not.
My nest question is the order in which to to these things, for example; would it be best to bevel the edges, groove or cut holes, before or after casing?
I'd like to add that the stamping I will be undertaking will be fairly simple, and will mostly consist of one larger stamp being used repeatedly along the length of the wristband
Thank you in advance for any help and feed back