How Do You Make A Leather Belt Embosser?
Making your own leather belt can be a rewarding experience. Customizing it even more so. Embossing is a process that allows you to imprint the belt with your own designs, including textures and lettering. While stamping involves making an impression from the top of the leather down, embossing is the opposite. The texture or die is placed under the leather and pressed into it from behind. Professionally made dies can be very expensive to purchase, so the best thing for a hobbyist to do is to make her own. Textures are all around us; we just need to look for one that interests us. Using it to emboss leather is no different than imprinting a piece of paper with the side of a lead pencil. Fix your texture to the long strip of wood using small nails or staples. The wood and the texture should be longer than the belt to be embossed. This will ensure that you get a nice, even flow of texture on the belt. Place a towel over the length of the belt. Use the iron to warm the belt. This will help
