Lasered Leather

[Xabbess]

Geeeees. Just oh gees! Gorgeous!

[andymock]

Thank you! Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been out of the country for a few weeks.

[andymock]

I have a feeling the Precision Power setting in the July Announcement will be the answer to our success on this. Can’t wait to try!

[Drea]

Yes, I think so too! Tooling is not my forte, but here are some of my early experiments with tooling + low power. It looks hopeful

Leather engraving and tooling revisited - low power settings

Back in April I did a bit of experimenting to see if I could engrave leather with the PRU, and then tool the leather for greater texture. I’d hoped that this would enable me to essentially skip the first couple of steps in traditional leather tooling. Typically you case the leather, trace the pattern on to the leather using a stylus, and then carve along the traced pattern with a swivel knife before you begin to create texture using tools to stamp along that carved edge. My hope wa…