Cutting Leather With Laser Questions

[ScoobyNewbie]

Two of the older guys at Tandy took a class at our Dospace (probably the same as your maker Space), they really seemed to enjoy it, and the journal covers and other stuff were all really cool! 

[robs456]

On 2018-09-11 at 4:29 AM, ArtisanWorks said:

As to the discussion on technology vs. handmade, I see the laser as a simple evolution of the head knife or scissors. It gives me more time to concentrate on the design of the piece, tooling, and finishing. 

Well, I would see the clicker press as the evolution to handheld blades and the laser as some sort of side track as it is in fact burning the leather and comes with the effects of doing that, to both surface and structure.
Lasers are more the evolution of pyrography though, I think. 

On 2018-10-31 at 10:37 PM, Ard Righ Art said:

Now he has a shop full of people who roll them off a belt embossing machine

Good for him, he's got himself a factory.
And people to con sell his stuff to. Most likely they've never seen a handmade leather product and will go 'Oh wow it's like raised up how cool is that OMG!'
First time I saw an embossed product after I learned to just stamp a simple pattern I went like 'WTF did they do to this leather?' 
Not so many know good leather, or even care, but there's a lot of people that want a 'rustic' leather bracelet saying 'Love', or more fittingly 'Atrocity'...