Stamp Lettering After Dye?

[sharpshooter81]

A lady contacted me today and wanted to know if she brought her horse bridle to me, if I would stamp the horses name in the bridle.....No trouble to do it of course, just wondering if I can stamp lettering on something that has already been dyed?? She said it was a med brown oil finish. Any imput is greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!!

[Luke Hatley]

The oiled leather is not going to take the impression like Veg tan leather will. Also if you try to put letters in the old oiled leather there is a Great chance that you could cut thru the leather. The only way i would do it is to stamp the horse name on new leather then sew the piece of leather onto the bridle.

[Sylvia]

You might be able to brand the letters in with a wood burning tool or a soldering iron.

[sharpshooter81]

I like the idea of stitching a name patch on the bridle....I'm fairly new to this leather working stuff, I didn't think of that!!! LOL Thanks alot guys!!

[St8LineGunsmith]

Ya once leather is dyed it don't take stamping/tooling.

you can replace the existing bridle strap with a new part with the desired stamping/tooling.

making new bridle strapping for an old bit is pretty common just use the old parts as templates and use the existing hardware.

[spooky]

Or perhaps you could talk her into having a brass name plate riveted on, which can then be engraved....

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