MatthewEmerick

I just got the latest quote. It will be around $500, which is more than I spent on leather for the project. I'm turning it down and plan to just spend several dozen hours cutting leather.

It would cut out the pieces as well as mark a border for me to do more work on. I have all of the files (36 total) for the armor. The breastplate file is the largest, as it's all there. The others are collections of smaller files. This is just a one-off project.

Does anyone know about how much time a laser cutter saves? For example, if cutting an intricate pattern takes 5 hours by hand, about how long would it save to laser cut? I'm really looking for a proportion, like 1/3 of the time. Even a rough estimate would help. My project is a set of leather armor. I have a pattern but it's fairly intricate and would take a while to cut it all out. I have a place that can cut it by laser for me, but it'll cost a couple of hundred dollars. I just want to know if it would be worth it.

Yes I have. I like their patterns, but I need something other than a Viking style. Plus I already bought patterns from Prince Armor Academy.

Hello, everyone! My name is Matthew from Michigan and I'm doing a crash course on armor leatherworking. I'm just getting started and have most of my tools. I simply lack the experience, which should make this interesting. My project is a near complete armor pattern set from Prince Armor Academy, the Imperial Knight. I have the patterns and am currently mocking up the armor to make sure that it will actually fit. I need to have the armor finished by June for a larp event at the end of that month. While it feels like I have plenty of time now, it'll go by quick. So much so that I'm looking at options to have the leather cut on a laser cutter for me. Please let me know if you know of any options in the mid-Michigan area. I'll be on here asking for help on a variety of topics from tooling to putting a metallic touch to the armor.