New pics of sporran from Celtic Empire

[MacSimoin]

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.

[bear]

I've seen Rudi embossing some leather. He uses a large, vertical screw clamp that presses the template into the leather. He actually uses a 4 foot long 2x4 to get enough pressure on the screw.

[jfellrath]

I've seen Rudi embossing some leather. He uses a large, vertical screw clamp that presses the template into the leather. He actually uses a 4 foot long 2x4 to get enough pressure on the screw.

Sounds like, if you got the template correct, you could do the same sort of thing with a good C-Clamp and some wood...