robbie1 Report post Posted December 11, 2011 Hello forum! I do not post on here much but I'm in need of some help. This is a little project I am going to be working on at tax time. I have done one of these before but it kind of turned into a disaster because my leathercrafting skills were not up to par. I have made a lot of improvements since then and figure I would give it one more shot. This is a championship belt design I came up with on Corel Draw. The plates are going to be etched zinc that are going to be electroplated with a combination of 24kt gold and nickel silver. They are going to have bolts welded on the back that are going to be attached to regular 8-9 oz veggie tanned leather that it is going to be stamped and dyed. The border line around the plates is going to be beveled with a border stamp around them. The snap boxes on the ends of the strap are going to be filled in with a backgrounder stamp. I was going to have the pattern printed out at Staples because the strap is 10 inches tall and 50 inches long. The question I have is what would you recommend transferring such a large pattern to the tooling leather because I want to this to be cut as evenly as possible. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bluesman Report post Posted January 4, 2012 Hi, Just saw your post. I am doing the same thing. Wish I could see your picture, but it is not up. I designed my bel in Autocad. I plan on plotting it out full scale and then glueing it to some poster board. Cuto out the design and then use this as a template. Leet me know how this goes, I am ver interested. Were are you getting the paltes done, if I may ask. I lanned on tooling everything, except using some star, football and alphabet conchos. I will share mine when the design is complete. Jon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
