Laser engraving leather question

[Martin Boekers]

I have done a handful of "daytimers" a real pain as most are "bonded leather" (Cheaper ) there is a fine line between a good engraving and one "burned through." It does get brittle to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonded_leather

[Matt McCoy]

Hey Stevie,

I got your PM, but I wanted to reply here in case someone else had the same question -- hope that's OK.

The wallets you linked to are made of a thin leather that are surface-dyed. With all of our materials -- and some projects -- we have a spreadsheet of the various settings for both raster engraving and vector cutting. While this gives us reasonably predictive results, there are exceptions due to the nature of the materials we use and required a lot of experimentation to get the desired results in a quick turnaround time.