Jeff Belany
03-31-2011, 11:20 AM
Just wanted to share a recent good experience.
I've done a lot of leather items but mostly ligher brown, smooth & hard as used for key fobs. Some a little softer like a checkbook cover. But I had a customer bring in some black, textured leather wallets that they had for gifts for a wedding party. Wasn't sure how they would laser but offered to give it a try. After a little practicing on some scrap I dyed black I got the wallets lasered and I think they came out pretty well. Customer was happy. Only took less than a minute for each one so it was an easy job. The image is subtle, kind of like embossing, but looks nice.
One issue -- I usually use a leather conditioner after I laser but on these wallets the conditioner made the image look very weak. I just lightly cleaned them off with alcohol and they looked great.
Jeff in northern Wisconsin
I've done a lot of leather items but mostly ligher brown, smooth & hard as used for key fobs. Some a little softer like a checkbook cover. But I had a customer bring in some black, textured leather wallets that they had for gifts for a wedding party. Wasn't sure how they would laser but offered to give it a try. After a little practicing on some scrap I dyed black I got the wallets lasered and I think they came out pretty well. Customer was happy. Only took less than a minute for each one so it was an easy job. The image is subtle, kind of like embossing, but looks nice.
One issue -- I usually use a leather conditioner after I laser but on these wallets the conditioner made the image look very weak. I just lightly cleaned them off with alcohol and they looked great.
Jeff in northern Wisconsin