Holy snaps, I love this so much. My husband is a mountain of a man and we were talking about how none of the cloth masks I make fit him… so now I’m think he needs a badass leather mask instead.
I’ve got some bellies that I bought a while back from Tandy that will do nicely I think.
You did a wonderful job!
Just realized I purchased a bag pattern from this same guy recently. He mentioned that it wasn’t for laser cutters, so I took that as challenge accepted.
She’s got the look!
Love it. How did you get the pattern into glowforge? It came in like a hot mess just adding it myself
Yeah, you have to get around the file security so you can separate the pages. On a Mac you can just open the PDF and then export it as PDF and the new one won’t be locked.
Many of the DieselpunkRo files say they are meant for manual work, not laser cutting. Did you have to adapt the pattern at all for the GF?
All I did was connect the pieces that were cut in half to fit on the pages. Honestly, I don’t see how anything you can cut by hand could be non-laser compatible. 
All the designer is saying is that you can’t expect to just load his plans into your machine.
As G2N stated, any hand-cut design can be made suitable for the laser, you just need to know how to use design software.
Yep, that’s what I figured. Thanks.
Tried that on Windows, no go. Had to scan it back in after printing and then clean it up in AI … major pain in the rear!
do a little googling for sites that will unlock PDFs. locking a PDF is not very secure. i do this all the time at work.
Very cool mask, well done!! Saddle stitching is a bear… but you can’t beat the results!
My thumb is still a little numb. 
I have permanent indents in my index fingers and thumbs where I grip the needles when sewing!
Well…almost next to nearly true. It’s just a helluva lot more work and time. As I mentioned in my post about the first leather things I finally made, the patterns were printed on a huge folding sheet of paper. I had to scan them into my computer then laboriously hand trace every piece. One piece was so large it wouldn’t fit on my scanner bed and I had to take it downtown to a printing shop and pay to have it done.
truth
Thank you for posting this. I am working on an apocalyptic costume (I started before the pandemic) and I haven’t gotten to the mask yet. This looks perfect!
Also, you did an amazing job!
Thank you! I was so afraid of leatherworking for so long; now it’s all I can think about.