Love all the ways the glowforge lets me do more things. Being able to make 100% custom debossing stamps for leather is awesome. I have a close friend who is a Comanche and had asked me for a wallet with the symbol engraved. The wallet ended up being so dark I wanted to make the symbol really stand out.
I threw this together in a couple of hours from scrap wood. To help me really set the deboss.
All in all its not bad; soft woods for part of the frame. That’s good because you can really drive it down, but I added a lot of screws to the sides. It’s all made of scrap except the toggle so I can use it till it breaks then whip another one out - I am sure there are many improvements to be made, but i had fun.
Great work! I hope your friend loves it. Love the ingenuity of using the Glowforge and making tools to take your creativity further!
I was trying to glue up some little match box style boxes and thought “I wish I had something to clamp this better.” Regular clothespins sort of worked but then I saw a right-angle clothespin someone 3D printed, drew up one in illustrator, a few tries cutting it out and inserting the spring from a regular clothespin and voila! Just the tool for the job.
