Members cwickgo9 Posted yesterday at 12:19 AM Members Report Posted yesterday at 12:19 AM 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. Quote
CFM chuck123wapati Posted yesterday at 11:23 AM CFM Report Posted yesterday at 11:23 AM 10 hours ago, cwickgo9 said: 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 dont see any improvement over doing it by hand. Am I missing something? How long did it take? I make these too. I can trace that and cut it out and be ready to tool in about 5 minutes by hand. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Contributing Member Ferg Posted yesterday at 04:37 PM Contributing Member Report Posted yesterday at 04:37 PM (edited) 5 hours ago, chuck123wapati said: i dont see any improvement over doing it by hand. Am I missing something? How long did it take? I make these too. I can trace that and cut it out and be ready to tool in about 5 minutes by hand. Chuck, Advantage I see? I keep the laser file, engrave to leather anytime I wish. The engraving should take about 30 to 60 seconds. The drawing is precisely the same every time. Edited yesterday at 04:38 PM by Ferg Quote
CFM chuck123wapati Posted yesterday at 05:59 PM CFM Report Posted yesterday at 05:59 PM 56 minutes ago, Ferg said: Chuck, Advantage I see? I keep the laser file, engrave to leather anytime I wish. The engraving should take about 30 to 60 seconds. The drawing is precisely the same every time. I'm not trying to be negative, I'm just trying to understand how this would be any type of self-rewarding process. A guy can save pattern files and print them easily enough and trace them out pretty quickly, so that's not much advantage. Actually, using a swivel knife does take longer at first, but you also learn your pattern and how to use your knife in the process, a skill thats is required for any decent tooling. It reminds me of those old paint-by-number kits they used to sell, lol, you ended up with something painted, but gained no actual artistic knowledge of why or how you did it. A disadvantage IMO, ten years down the road, you still don't know how to do it by hand, and your skill level hasn't improved. Might as well just buy clicker and embossing plates if precision and time are the goal. The elephant in the room? Many of the very good toolers we try to emulate learned almost from the first to draw in and layout thier pattterns free hand. Patterns and tracing were simply a waste of time to them. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Members cwickgo9 Posted 10 hours ago Members Report Posted 10 hours ago 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. Quote
Contributing Member Ferg Posted 2 hours ago Contributing Member Report Posted 2 hours ago 7 hours ago, cwickgo9 said: 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. You should be able to play with your settings to minimize the charring. I keep a box of what would be throwaways for trial and error work. lol Quote
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