Cutting leather with laser

[chuck123wapati]

12 minutes ago, Ferg said:

Most of the time I ignore what they tell me and let my wife worry since she will anyway. 😉

i havent went to a doctor yet who couldn't find something wrong. Stay as active as you can, my friend. 

I actually use a small benchtop band saw to cut most of my thick leather now.

[Ferg]

2 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

i havent went to a doctor yet who couldn't find something wrong. Stay as active as you can, my friend. 

I actually use a small benchtop band saw to cut most of my thick leather now.

I have a 20" Powermatic band saw and a 12" Craftsman

I haven't done much for sometime with my heavy leather but that is a good idea.

[Ferg]

Don't like the soot that eventually lands on the face of finish leather so I am cutting patterns for the Mrs's phone and mine. I will just go back to cutting with a knife. I will post some pics when I am done with them.

Don't know if you don't try. And actually a piece I cut yesterday stinks bad enough I don't want it in my pocket.

BTW: I sold my bender for making dies plus I gave my 20 ton press I used for die cutting to my son.

OH WELL!!!!!

[Bert03241]

18 hours ago, Dwight said:

I am fortunate that the company I retired from also gave us pretty darn good health insurance.  I have it . . . Medicare . . . and the VA . . . so I kind of ease out from under a bunch of that garbage . . . and at 81 + . . . that's a good deal.

The meds alone for my peripheral neuropathy are probably in the neighborhood of 500 a month . . .  VA will not recognize it as caused by agent orange and give me any disability on it . . . but they do provide the meds for less then 25 bucks a month.   Something is better than zero.

What was your big laser there Bert . . . I've got a vanilla 3000 milli watt baby that I really have fun with . . . and a 10 watt Ortur . . . that is my work horse when I need bigger stuff done.  I'm thinking about buying a 40 or 50 watt head for it to do some extra pattern cutting on my holsters . . . but I haven't stepped up to the plate for sure.  May just keep what I've got.

I really want to see Ferg's phone cover . . . I've tried to sort it all out in my head . . . haven't done much with it.  Waiting on the pics . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

I have a 60 watt co2  24x15 bed w/9" z axis Have used it in a couple yrs just sittin here collecting dust.

[kgg]

6 hours ago, Ferg said:

Most of the time I ignore what they tell me and let my wife worry since she will anyway.

I know what you mean, wives do most of the worrying.

kgg

[Dwight]

16 hours ago, Bert03241 said:

I have a 60 watt co2  24x15 bed w/9" z axis Have used it in a couple yrs just sittin here collecting dust.

Put it in a box . . . send it to me . . . I'll put a leash on it and exercise it like a German Shepherd police dog . . . 

That could be my next one . . . I'm playing with the idea of going back on Ebay . . . pre-made sample pictures . . . and I'll be definitely using a laser to cut out the patterns.  My 10 watt will do it . . . but sometimes it's 2 or 3 passes . . . and I would rather not mess with that.

What do you do different with a co2 laser . . . do you have to supply co2 from a jug or something . . . never saw one work.

May God bless,

Dwight

[Ferg]

4 hours ago, Dwight said:

Put it in a box . . . send it to me . . . I'll put a leash on it and exercise it like a German Shepherd police dog . . . 

That could be my next one . . . I'm playing with the idea of going back on Ebay . . . pre-made sample pictures . . . and I'll be definitely using a laser to cut out the patterns.  My 10 watt will do it . . . but sometimes it's 2 or 3 passes . . . and I would rather not mess with that.

What do you do different with a co2 laser . . . do you have to supply co2 from a jug or something . . . never saw one work.

May God bless,

Dwight

If you don't have connection to https://lightburnsoftware.com get a 30 day free trial. Get on the forums and select what you wish to have info about. I assure you it has gotten to be similar to an encyclopedia 

[Ferg]

    

No stitching, Red cover is .8mm calf skin, Polished brass snap

Lining is .6mm Kangaroo

 

Wife's cover. She always has smudges on the screen, drives me nuts. The little round overlay is cover for back side of snap piece. With leather this thin I don't like to put the hardware on single layer.

I use good quality plastic edge and back cover for phone. Velcro on leather and back of phone case. 

I cut 1/8" mdf core maple panel with laser to match the total layout of cover.

Two little holes are for snap parts location and I used two metal pins in each punching through leather plus into plastic cutting board underneath. That held everything together while cutting leather to shape. 

I made both covers from the same material with three different options. Polished brass/antique brass snaps, different camera slot, and different shape of snap end of panel. 

I have made a couple things without stitching since my eyesight is poor with glasses. Love a stitch line on leather.

Leather is a bit stiff now, it will soften up and lay closer to phone in a short time.

Edited 10 hours ago by Ferg

[dikman]

As they say a picture is worth a thousand words, now I can understand what you were describing. 

[Bert03241]

4 hours ago, Ferg said:

If you don't have connection to https://lightburnsoftware.com get a 30 day free trial. Get on the forums and select what you wish to have info about. I assure you it has gotten to be similar to an encyclopedia 

The co2 is in the tube inside the laser housing, after about 10000 hrs of use the co2 runs out and the tube must be recharged or replaced

Edited 7 hours ago by Bert03241