What is the hive-mind consensus on non PG leather masking?

[Jules]

I engraved the entire Better Together clutch from the catalog without masking. Turned out great.

Well, I promised.

I probably would not be showing this since I consider it a failed prototype, but I promised I’d show it if it came out even marginally reasonable… A few days ago I caught a really weird load on the browser when I tried to access the forum, and it looked interesting enough that I thought I could clean it up and use it for an engrave…well, it’s low browser resolution, and the grays from the image didn’t really engrave the way i wanted them to, but I gave it a shot. This is how it came out when I…

One thing you need to do if you can is to run a small test to see how dark you can get it…some pieces of leather have engraved really light at 2%, others got a nice golden brown. if you want dark engrave though, just run additional passes.