My passport cover looks like a spellbook

Made on a Glowforge
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Quick project for a contest someone else is running in a FB group. We all got the passport cover design to start with… after that…

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I had some fun with it

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Lasers make the little details so much easier!

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PG Thick leather, Fiebings Medium Brown leather dye and Angelus Pearlescent 18K Gold acrylic leather paint. Total project time around 2 hours plus a bunch of ‘waiting for paint to dry’ time on the shiny bits (4-5 coats of paint!)

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Looks great. Can you tell us about your rivet tool?

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I set my rivets by hand with a hammer and one of these:
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Nothing fancy.

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#4

That looks awesome with the gold paint! :grinning:

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#5

It does look like a spellbook!

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#6

Gosh, the gold really pops! It’s a perfect accent to the brown leather.

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#7

Stunning!

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Darn, I was really hoping you were gonna show us some incrediblely clever quick-set rivet tool that I had never heard of!

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