[Leather] Short wallet for my friend's wife

victorshek (41)in #art • 7 years ago

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I got a custom order from my friend, this is the wallet to his wife.

5 Card slots
1 Hidden slot
1 Bill slot
1 Zip pocket

He asked me a emboss some words for his wife. You may think embossing is a easy job. Actually......it's not.

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This is the stamp I use to emboss, it's from Japan the brand is called Tsukiji-katsuji (It costed me ~US$ 500......for god sake......But it is very beautiful, if you are a craftsman you definitely should have one).

I need to pick the letter one by one then press on the leather. Below is the picture of how I make sure the words are embossed on the leather correctly. I cut some holes on the paper then put it on the leather and stamp on the holes. But before I do that I would press on the scrap letter to make sure I got the right spelling.

After I stamped on the leather. I need to check the words are stamped hard enough. Sometimes I may need to stamp one more time on certain letter. Cause the letters are made by lead which is very soft so it may break if I press too hard.

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