Making 100 ish leather luggage tags on the cheap

[Jonathan_Cotten]

Hello,

I am trying to acquire about 100 or so luggage tags which I want to give as wedding favors. I would like to foil emboss on one side. How feasible is it to make that amount for less than $3 per item?

Tell me if you think this is possible, if not why not, better options than making them,or offers/quotes to make them. I think this would need to me a PM though.

[Photomancer]

Not sure about the foil for the embosser machine, but $3< for leather, embossing foil and split ring should be easily done under $3 unless it’s something rare like Unicorn hide.

[uglyknees]

Shhhhhh don’t let on we have a source for unicorn hide. #dmssecrets

[Photomancer]

Rumor is there will be two BIG stallions around here soon, any truth to this?

[jast]

Might check with Jordan re: the bookmark wedding favors. You can see them here in the show’n’tell thread from March.

Dallas Makerspace Show and Tell - March 2017

The first few laser etched bookmarks I’ve been working on are done! [image] Got the pre-dyed leather at Tandy (half off!), laser etched and cut them, sanded and burnished the edges, sealed with resolene, set the eyelets and tied matching lace through it. [image][image][image][image][image] Soon there will be 250 ish of these guys, each with one of four different quotes. My cousin is getting married in a few weeks and these will be wedding favors. She chose quotes that mean a lot to the two of…

I know nothing about doing the foil embossing (on any surface) but the embosser I think we still have can probably do it…

Hot foil press equipment

well now - I have two Kingley hot stamp embossing machines. I might be willing to donate one. Fonts and spacers and foil (I have some extra) would be the things needed, Great for embossing bibles, wallets, paper, etc. Would CA want to take ownership of yet another relic? [image]

[Hardsuit]

Paper Arts in the Deep Ellum district in downtown Dallas has a clearance rack of various foils right now that might work for you, and very cheap prices.

[Cairenn_Day]

Do we have a foil embosser?

[jast]

DID have.
Don’t know if STILL have…

Kingsley Hot Foil Embossing Machine Get Together

Greetings. I am donating a Kingsley Hot Foil Embossing Machine to our wonderful Creative arts section. Since I will be at DMS Thursday the 17th for the machine shop meeting, I’m hosting an informal get together for those that want to see it in action and want to learn to use it. Don’t know what it is? The Kingsley is a old school method of bonding a gold metallic foil (now there are lots of colors) to a non-metallic material. Examples include old Bibles and how the name was embossed in gold on…

[uglyknees]

We still have it in ca. It’s in one of the cubes.

[Webdevel]

Do you have a photo of the type of tag you want to make?

[nicksilva]

there are only a couple of fonts available for it. no figure stamps.

[apparently_weird]

I can say from experience that the embosser works great on leather, however the foil doesn’t hold up in my case. Here is a shot from the inside of my wallet. 4 oz leather laser cut. I decided to emboss my name and a made by. Made by used gold foil name only used pressure/heat.