Several years ago I made a bracelet for my wife. After making it, I declared I would never make that design again because it took too long and we could never cash flow it in her etsy shop. Now that we have our glowforge, it was the first thing that I wanted to try to make. Took me two tries to get the settings where I wanted them, but here are the final results!
The celtic knot is actually a font that I purchased and then played with. The leather is 8 oz vegetable tan leather, formed and hardened, then stained with a fudge brown ecoflow stain and then topcoated. It’s a claspless bracelet and will maintain that shape for it’s lifetime (as long as you take care of it)
Sorry, haven’t been on the boards for a long time. Just seeing this now. To harden the leather, you wet it (not dripping wet). Put it in the oven (low temp) and keep checking it. You must harden it in the shape that you want it to keep. Let it dry and it’s ready to be stained.