cwickgo9

It was an experiment to see if it could be done and how well it did it. As to why - I could lay out a whole sheet of leather on my laser bed and cut out the body and score several different tooling patterns very quickly while I did something else. And they'd be just as accurate as a clicker. You dont lose any skills as far as tooling goes because the scoring only replaces the transferring of the pattern to the leather. You still have to follow up with your SK, and tool it out as normal. It just gives you another tool in your box to create different affects as well as it can increase your productivity. The downside is now you have to deal with some charring on the edges which throws a little curve when trying to bevel and burnish.

I'm interested in one of them - I live pretty close

Here is a knife sheath I cut out and scored the pattern with my S1 40w, then tooled it. Not the prettiest but it was my first shot at using the laser to score the pattern instead of using a pattern and transferring with a stylus. Also used the shape tool to make the belt loops - not the final shape, but again, for an experiment it didnt turn out too bad.

I have an xTool S1 40w. I tried using the "score" feature to place the pattern on a knife sheath. Then used my SK and tooled it like I normally would. I'll try to post a photo of what it looks like. The only problem I had so far is A) some of the finer lines it combined in the bitmap so the laser made some odd figures to try and tool and B)its less forgiving if you stray off your original line since it puts such a dark line on the leather. I have not tried to dye it yet so it might cover it.

I know this is an old post that no one answered, but im searching for the same answer. The rivets I got have hollow posts but no caps came with them. I've seen others similar that had caps. Is there a way to set them without caps or do I need to sacrifice some caps from some plain rivets and try that? Thanks in advance.