Quote Originally Posted by jfellrath
Beautiful sporran, MacSimoin!

I've not done any leatherwork, but for those of you who have: how exactly is that embossing work done?
Rudi made a draft-quality copy (drawing) of our badge design and sent it out to be engraved, where the drawing was transferred to a photographic-etched zinc plate. After Rudi received the zinc plate from the engraver, he trimmed any excess areas and mounted the plate to a small wood block (to give the impression more depth), trimmed it a second time and then embossed the badge design into the leather.