Leather Carving

Where to Buy Leather Stamping Tools: Maker-Dire...

Four ways to buy leather stamping tools — big retailers, Amazon, Etsy, or direct from toolmakers who cut their own dies. Honest prices and trade-offs.

Where to Buy Leather Stamping Tools: Maker-Dire...

Four ways to buy leather stamping tools — big retailers, Amazon, Etsy, or direct from toolmakers who cut their own dies. Honest prices and trade-offs.

How to Lay Out a Stamped Border on a Belt

You can tell how much someone has stamped by looking at the tip of their belt. If the pattern arrives at the end mid-motif — half an acanthus leaf, three...

How to Lay Out a Stamped Border on a Belt

You can tell how much someone has stamped by looking at the tip of their belt. If the pattern arrives at the end mid-motif — half an acanthus leaf, three...

How We Cut Brass Leather Stamps on a CNC Mill

How We Cut Brass Leather Stamps on a CNC Mill

Every stamp we sell starts as a bar of solid brass and a drawing. This is what happens in between, including the parts that go wrong. Why milling rather than...

How We Cut Brass Leather Stamps on a CNC Mill

Every stamp we sell starts as a bar of solid brass and a drawing. This is what happens in between, including the parts that go wrong. Why milling rather than...

The History of Leather Stamping: From Hand Engraving to Brass Stamps

The History of Leather Stamping: From Hand Engr...

Leather has been decorated for as long as people have worn it. What changed over the centuries is not the desire to mark it but the tooling — and the...

The History of Leather Stamping: From Hand Engr...

Leather has been decorated for as long as people have worn it. What changed over the centuries is not the desire to mark it but the tooling — and the...

Custom Leather Stamps: How a Maker's Mark Is Made

Custom Leather Stamps: How a Maker's Mark Is Made

What actually happens between sending us a drawing and holding the finished tool, including the step people never expect: we redraw your logo as a cutting path. Also which artwork...

Custom Leather Stamps: How a Maker's Mark Is Made

What actually happens between sending us a drawing and holding the finished tool, including the step people never expect: we redraw your logo as a cutting path. Also which artwork...

Why Brass is Better for Stamping Leather

Why Brass is Better for Stamping Leather

Brass gets the credit, but most of what you notice in an impression comes from how the head was cut, not what it was cut from. Cast versus milled, why...

Why Brass is Better for Stamping Leather

Brass gets the credit, but most of what you notice in an impression comes from how the head was cut, not what it was cut from. Cast versus milled, why...