Hi,
I have been crafting leather straps for replica wrestling belts for the last year and couldnt be any prouder of taking the plunge into doing something Ive always wanted to do! Some styles of belts use a small standard background stamp for the snapbox area of the belt, however some customers request for the exact style of a particular belt they have seen used on TV, some of which have a one piece stamp pressed into the leather to create a pattern.
I have had a 4x8" dye made to emulate this style put Im having trouble successfully stamping this area using an arbor press as the arm is narrow and am having to try and stamp different areas of the dye multiple times. Is there another machine anybody can reccomend to me. Any help would be greatfully appreciated.
The below image is the style im trying to recreate which is done using one large stamp.
