Does This $38 Leather Tool replace a $1,500 Machine?

[@lacklustre222]

I love your videos. Never stop. I was so scared to get into leatherwork and your videos showed me how easy it is to start with literally a fork and hammer, no need for fancy tools.

[@Him__3000]

This is a game changer man. Thanks for always making videos like this. You have every right and reason to keep quiet on how you do your business yet you choose to show us to help us out, thanks for that!

[@jamesgilbert124]

I have one of the cheap, cast iron benchtop "hand press" machines that I use for rivets and grommets. A while back I ordered a machined touch mark off Etsy. It came with a steel rod that screwed into the back of the logo stamp, which is made of brass. It makes fine logos, but it can be hard to get a good stamp with one hit. A second hit will almost always move just enough to give a ghost image. I sent the stamp and rod to a machinist buddy of mine, along with a set of rivet dies to use as a template. He cut down the steel rod to fit the threads on the top side of the press, and made a larger base for the bottom to support leather past the edges of the stamp. Now I get a consistently crisp, repeatable logo for the low, low price of making a shift boot for his project car out of some glazed pig skin.

[@chrissewell1608]

Neccessity is the mother of invention! I always like to see people make their own special tools. Very cool!

[@aaronionta7134]

Hello I have been watching for years but had no control to add comments I love your KZbin channel and all your videos. Thanks Aaron ionta

[@tonywilson1078]

Thank you for the video. I received an email from BG tonight re the platen die and stamps. It’s great to see them in action. It looks like an affordable way to add monograms to items. Thanks again.

[@rogergilkison5894]

I always look forward to your new videos. Keep doing what you do best!

[@MultiFish]

Nice bit of evolution. Great idea.

[@sus8e462]

Very cool... But these have been on the market with other brands for their presses & I've had a set for a couple years--BUT never thought of using it for embossing--that is brilliant!

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@pamelalittlefield4608]

Another awesome video...❤❤

[@stevenleades]

😂😂😂 best Cleet and Squirrel vid yet 😂

[@levonloper7442]

Very cool ,Bro

[@blueshirtmonday]

I'd say it doesn't replace a clicker press. But it's a handy tool if you didn't have one or didn't have an arbor press. I love my BG hand press but i already have an arbor press. The coolest thing is that they're adding features and functionality with new dies. So while this one may not be for me, I'm 100% behind what they are doing.

[@JustinFranza]

Great idea! Somewhat related note, Would love to see someone make an arbor chuck solution

[@atathel9146]

What leather is best for making belts? What leather is best for cold press?

[@daverooni7763]

This might open a lot of possibility for people. Nice work! I’ve never used a press, but wouldn’t it be easier if the embossing stamp just screwed into the press?

[@Corter]

Give it a try! At least for setting hardware its indispensable, first machine I ever bought :) It would be but A lot of stamps dont have threads on the back and there isn't a standard threading when they do. If you have a specific threading you could make one yourself and use the bottom of this set to stamp into for sure. You'd have to make a bunch of different sizes that converted to the size of the press threading if you wanted to offer them as a product and then you'd still have to make this set for the stamps that don't have threading otherwise

[@rockleatherworks3154]

Great idea but….. if the bottom plate was 4 inch square which you have a lot of room for that would be easier to align and give you a more steadier base to hold the leather flat. . That what I did to my arbor press. That just my 2 cents.

[@Corter]

There's an available base plate as I think I mentioned in the video, I just didn't have it attached to my machine :) It also has guides so you can set it up to do repeat stamps on multiple pieces in the same spot every time

[@brendanmccreesh5112]

This is a very cool idea I like it. I have a question though where do you get your dies made? I’ve been looking to get a makers mark made and I don’t know where to start please and thank you.

[@flightschoolcustomfootwear]

Etsy has alot of people that make stamps and dies for pretty cheap

[@brendanmccreesh5112]

@@flightschoolcustomfootwear Thank you I wouldn't have thought to look there

[@flightschoolcustomfootwear]

@@brendanmccreesh5112 you're welcome. Alot of them are in China, but there's some U.S. based makers too and the prices are pretty good in my opinion

[@aaronionta7134]

Question when using the Stamp pieces you do not have to wet the leather?

[@shanek6582]

Seems like it should be the standard die that came with the press

[@raymondgoertzen7333]

Will the top screw plate work in Tandy machines?

[@MotivationLab949]

I want to start leather handmade things work So give me a little bit advice

[@TheCleric42]

I didn’t know you speak Canuck, eh 8:51

[@jenpatterson8309]

Where do you recommend having your brass stamps made?

[@philsullivan3679]

I know I'm going to sound dumb, but do you have a chain connected to your arbor press? I'm interested in the plates, but having my arbor press set up like that would be great. Thanks for any help of direction to where I can view your type of press set up.

[@Corter]

I don't own an arbor press, the machines in the video are both from Buckleguy - they're the hand press and the hand and foot press. The bigger machine I have is set up with the stand and foot press option, it's a fully engineered system and pretty cool if you're in the market! I use it because I've blown both rotator cuffs, so being able to have it in foot press mode avoids some of the repetitive motion issues in my shoulders

[@natashapoirier4696]

❤❤❤

[@royalleatherworks]

First? 👀😂 Grateful for all you do, brother!

[@oakridgereview1359]

Make them bigger and use them for die cutters as well lol same process for my 2T arbor press

[@Tammy-un3ql]

👍👍👌👌

[@zacwillardsen4362]

If by a $1500 machine you mean a heated stamp press, then no. Main reason for the heat is to use foil or get a darkened imprint. This is just a blind deboss, which can be done by hand or with a clicker/arbor press

[@jeffreymilnes6983]

Dude, you just missed the whole point of what he was talking about. This is for the people who don’t have an arbor press or a clicker. And you could probably emboss with foil, darken imprintif you’re patient, by just heating your stamp manually.

[@tommygamba170]

$40 harbor freight press versus 35.00. humm lets see

[@randolphchappel6098]

So for my $100 Chinese sewing machine; would it cost me about $3.80????????????

[@leolu4525]

Second!!! Love your videos btw❤

[@KrzysztofC7]

Trzeci

[@MW-tm3su]

Mmmm seems kind of cheap really, and that you're limited to only 2 letters? I'll stick with my heat embossing stamp machine and getting the stamps (letters, monograms or or logos) CNC'd in brass. Last forever and then I can use heat with or without foil --or just cold like you do here. Why anyone would just use basic boring sans serif letters as their stamp is beyond me --zero creativity.

[@Corter]

Personal preference really - I don't think it takes a serif to make a font interesting, the opposite for me :) But yes, as I mentioned many times in the video this is an affordable way to add a makers mark or monogram to a piece. Not everyone has or can afford a foil machine and brass alphabets, that's a lot of money to spend and a fairly large footprint to take up in your shop to offer a monogram if you're not doing a bunch of volume.

[@antonc81]

Serifs don’t make a typeface more creative. Just like elegant, minimalist designs in any field of design aren’t necessarily easier to create or less creative than ornate designs. Many of the most iconic typefaces and the most revered among typeface nerds are sans serif.

[@MistressGomorahhReigne]

I'm confused why wouldn't you make it for the arbor press it only cost us 80 bux for a 1 ton and it replaces Many TOOLS i think you should rethink the marketing... Most of us are buying arbor presses because its versatile and affordable..

[@Corter]

I think maybe there's a disconnect? An arbor press does this already. The smaller button press from Buckleguy is only $230 I believe, it will be much more useful in leathercraft than an arbor press long term and take up less space in your work area. This tool simply allows you to emboss with it so you don't have to also buy an arbor press

[@chatorosales866]

Seems cumbersome. But, hope your dream plays out.

[@icecreamtruckog3667]

You might want to se a Doctor for your shaking hands.

[@mistermike9688]

Please think about what you are saying. He might have done and may not appreciate you highlighting it so bluntly, I have Parkinsons disease and tried very hard to hide my tremor at work - i knew that I had a tremor and the very last thing I would have wanted is someone raising it in a public setting.

[@tobedetermined4180]

I think this tool is redundant

[@MistressGomorahhReigne]

Also you're not saving us money, you're saying we have to invest in the press then buy another 35.00 part... Really ?

[@andreskanes1348]

At 1:48 "this is just an easier solution if you already have one of the presses from Bucklguy". He's not trying tell you to go by a press, he's pointing out a new attachment for people who either already have one, or are considering getting one. If you're a hobbyist, this video probably won't apply to you, if you do this for a living you've probably already got a press. I'll never understand people's need to complain just to hear themselves talk...

[@calebwhite1999]

The title of the video is quite misleading. Now if he said buy this stamp, and a 100 dollar machinist's arbor press and save 1365 dollars, that would have been nice.

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