How Do You Make Those Impression

[BondoBobCustomSaddles]

I am right there with you Bill. My guess is that the guy doing it, may even have had the equipment first as part of work, and branched out to leather.

Bob

[Nuttish]

Laser etching destroys the grain. Maybe he did and painted it. You'd have to see if it smells like burnt hair!

Does it look like the impressions have steep shoulders?

[King's X]

I believe Anvil Custom Leather company uses press plates for his work. His stuff is pretty unique.

[Nuttish]

I hate the typesetting but the results are very very good for the application. Thanks for clarifying

I'll just put out there again that plates like this is not out of anyone's reach and it's not difficult for a wood worker or someone with access to a laser cutter to make a jig that makes properly tracked and straight typesetting possible.

For tooling leather, all you need are your dies, a wet shop towel, and a cheap arbor press that can pull a ton.

[TomG]

I hate it when I'm wrong, but I am . I can see what looks like the edges of a plate on some of the designs. But even though creating and making a custom letter plate is fairly simple if you have the right equipment, is it really economical to do so for 1 item? I also do embroidery, screen printing and heat pressed vinyl and if it takes me more than 15 - 30 minutes to do the prep and creation, I can lose money on single shirts.

Where did the photo come from? Maybe you could ask the source?