billw Report post Posted December 20, 2013 Just a FYI, I recently purchased a Cameo Silhouette Printer and Cutter for the wife's birthday who does non-leather crafting. However, the application to leather work is tremendous: no more transfer paper! Easy stencil producer. Easy to import a font of your choice, easy to import a picture of your choice, easy to center and size the appropriate font, simply insert cardstock, and you have a stencil after the cutter works it's magic! Attached is a sample leather project utilizing lost saloon font with a paladin or chess piece logo for a local gun store. It was a 16 inch by 20 inch 8-9 oz leather. The store owner obviously liked the old western "Have Gun Will Travel". The actual design process easily within minutes: a stencil produced! A stylus to transfer the stencil, and a swivel knife to get cutting is all that is required. And, most importantly, unlike forgetting a stylus line on transfer paper, the stencil is really easy to re-align to finish the complete transfer of the design (If you miss a letter.... or some lines). Additionally, the cutter can utilize large size card stock, so your design is centered easily on your project as well. It can be a tremendous time saver, and frustration avoider, IMHO. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cardinal leather Report post Posted December 21, 2013 where did you buy this machine? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geneva Report post Posted December 23, 2013 www.uscutter.com This is the address for the Silhouette printer and cutter online Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ryan Barto Report post Posted September 19, 2014 I know I'm bringing up an old thread, but I have been using a silhouette portrait to cut leather. I've had great success with veg tanned calf 2-3 oz. My leather was coming in at 1.16mm at the thickest point. Used 2 pass cutting with the stock blade. It really makes the cutting mat dirty, so I may end up replacing the cutting mat more often than it is worth, but so far I have done 2 full wallets, 3 lighter cases, and a few card holders and the mat is still slightly tacky. I bought the machine to cut patterns out of cardstock, but I tend to push machines to their limits. I was pleasantly surprised by what these little machines can do. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZanivan Report post Posted July 26, 2016 Someone else tried to cut tan leather with a Silhouette cutter (any model)? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
