Decorating leather with pyrography

[Romey]

"This artist is from Brazil or Minnesota"

That narrows it down,haha

[Justis Cases]

I have a few questions for anyone who has done it on vegtan leather. I have seen some pretty magnificent pyrography sketches on leather, similar to pencil sketches. It was done with a woodburning pen with the different points. It was different western sketches on open panels with tooling around them to frame the sketch - photoalbums, Bible covers, that sort of thing. This work was done on what appeared to be oiled leather and had a finish on it. Unable to get many details because this was a consignment to a guy with a tradeshow booth, and he didn't know. I see on the leather and wood pyrography sites they recommend no oil in the leather and no finish applied. Anybody had any problems with it oiled or finished? Any cool tricks?

Thanks,

Bruce Johnson

I had a gentleman come up to my booth at one of the billiard shows and had a few samples of work he had done for several major league ball players. He said it was done with a woodburning tool and all he would need is a photo. Actually, he wanted to trade his services for one of my cases. I agreed and the case below is the one he did his work on. His name is Jim Williams and if I remember correctly he was from the mid west....Kansas I believe. I sent him a blank case finished with Resolene. I remember him calling me and complaining that the finish seemed to melt and hindered the detail. It looked OK to me but you know how these artist are. LOL

[grumpyold]

I do lots of pyrography on leather. I use mink oil paste to finish projects as it is the product I found darkens the leather the least. If you use a product that darks the leather you will have to adjust how dark you burn the design, other wise the detail will disappear. Doodle on scrap piece of leather you will use for the project and then apply finish, you should be able to see how much darker you need to burn.