What's the best stain for the glowforge leather

[esthertst]

hello, what’s the best way to make a leather patch? engraving or text please help. thank you.

[evansd2]

This comes up occasionally, very recently in fact.

Dye leather before cutting?

Hello! I’m a newbie in leather stuffs. I’ve been making some earrings lately where I’ll cut/score veg tanned leather then dye it afterward. My question is - Could I just dye the whole piece of leather first and then cut it in the Glowforge? I’m using water base stains mostly. I’m not sure if that’s ok for the machine. Anyone know? It would make for more uniform pieces IMO and would save me some time of dying each individual earring.

and just two days ago:

Preferred way to dye Glowforge leather?!

Hello! I purchased the natural leather from Glowforge for creating wallets and clutches. I would love to have some advice about products to dye the leather and wether to dye before or after cutting it? I am also wanting to experiment with hand painting the leather with dyes as well! Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much, Emily

[beerfaced]

Kind of hard to understand your question. You can engrave anything including text.

[esthertst]

what i meant by text is like just writing .

[beerfaced]

You can engrave any font you have.

[esthertst]

thank you and do you which stain works best for the glowforge leather ?

[beerfaced]

I don’t know myself but if you search on the site here you should find lots of info.

[geek2nurse]

@evansd2 gave you a couple of good links on staining, up above. The Glowforge leather is just normal vegetable-tanned leather, so anything that’s good for veg-tan will work for it.

[esthertst]

thank you