How to Design and Use 3D PRINTED LEATHER STAMPS // Fusion 360 & Leatherworking Tutorial 

Thank you for the video! Straight to the point! No BS!

Great tutorial. Quick note, however - don't wet the leather so much. You do Not want water standing on the surface. Using a spray bottle is great, but spritz lightly, stopping before the water starts to pool. You want the surface damp and cool to the touch, not water logged. Damp leather allows for better compression of the fibers and a shorter stamp time. If done correctly, you shouldn't have to leave a stamp under compression any longer than 30 seconds. Why? Because too much water allows the leather to act like a sponge. If you remove the stamp too soon, the compressed fibers are likely to reabsorb the surrounding moisture, opening the cells again and dulling the impression. However, if only about half the surface layers are wet, this allows the stamp to press fully into the bottom layers to compress and stick the fibers together. You'll have a crisper impression that will last.

I just stumbled across this technique in my own work. After it worked I did a quick search and found your video. I have only done debossing so far, hadn't even considered embossing with one of these. Excellent video.

EXECELENT video. Answered all my question in in shot! Well Done my friend!

Great video! Your presentation was clear and concise. Thank you.

I've been making handbags for a year now and this video is very useful for improving my craft, thank you.

Really great video and tutorial Morley! Definitely picked up some things!

Great work as always Morley!

Thank you so much for your video. After I figured out my software and equipment I produced a great stamp. Thank you!!!

I'll never do this but it was really interesting learning how you did it. Looks fantastic.

Wow - so many cool uses for 3D printers. It really looks like it was done by an expensive process - great job!

Very interesting video. Very nice job on the examples. Thank you for sharing your skills.

Nice, I'll have to try this out!

I really appreciate this video, thank you much !

Nice work and useful tips.

Excellent Video THanks!!

i make coasters using this method. it's a blast. thanks for sharing

Great video Morley, super informative

I am so jealous of your fusion knowledge. Great job Morley!

Thanks this gave me a fantastic idea!😀

Very cool Morley, great tutorial.

really helpful thanks

Good one, Thanks

Great video! Thanks! My only additional comment is that the leather is a little too wet yet to stamp. The surface should almost be back to a normal color before stamping. That will give you a nice burnished effect in the stamping.

What a nice idea. I saw a video about bookbinding by Ingenius designs, and there i recommended trying old typewriter letters for making embossing, but this is so much more simple

Really interest mate, 3d printings amazing!

A fusion tip: if you want to select the outer linesegments, you can click the chain button in the popup menu, you only have to touch the line at any point and it selects the entire line . Kind regards Hans

Great video

Exactly how I did my stamp, but some problems to deboss, thx for the advice!

I have the book like 75% complete. Have not touches the leather yet. I'm glad. Now to get into fusion 360 and figure something cute out

Very interesting

I have a leather day pack that this will work with nicely. Thanks 👍✌🥃

Great job 👍😍🤩 I want that printer 😭

Awesome ..

Very good work! I just tried it myself with Fusion. Works perfectly. Greetings from Germany

Lovely process with sharp results! I have no 3D-printer though... might have to try out some more analog variants of this technique! ;-)

Great video, clear instructions. #cadisfun Beautiful results. Mahalo for sharing! : )

Thanks, this will motivate me to break out my 3D printers.

I have found you can make leather stamps with a lasercutter as well (really detailed ones), though it takes several passes to get it deep enough to not leave a mark from the edge of your stamp block. Since I have both a printer and a laser, I've tried making a 3D printed blank that's slightly oversized and then lasering away the appropriate material. Then I get the deep clearance from the print and the fine detail from the laser. PLA lasers really nicely FYI. Also the ironing feature in the slicer is available in CURA for effectively any printer that works with CURA, not just Prusa's

Nice use of your Prusa! I do believe Cura slicer has had an Ironing feature for some time now for those with other machines... though I still prefer to wet sand my flat surfaces up to 800 to get a shiny finish.

Great video! Have you done the same with PVC?

Hello guys if anyone needs some help with making custom patterns let me know! Beautiful video!

Could you do a video on how to import images into fusion 360 to make special stamps for leather?

Hello, Excellent tutorial, do you think it can work in the same way with a material called semi leather, which is a mixture with synthetic material?

Nice work, Thank’s a lot for sharing your skill. But i am pretty sure you use the same technique for both work so they are debossing in the two case ;)

Try "ironing" function

this stencil can be used to emboss cards with and without foil?thanks

Will a resin print also work? Or is the pressure too much?

The process seems as straight forward as is can be. Now I just have to relearn Fusion360. Haven't used it in at least a year.

Nice tutorial. What was the 3d printing time for the two stamps?

this is very cool thanks! Do u know if it works with leather that's already dyed?

can you mqake a sheridan flotal deboss pattern for leather, like the ceaft tool patterns from tandy?

what happens if the leather gets wet again? will the impression fade away?

Great video. Please where can I buy those calipers from?

Can you deboss a name into an already-bound cover of a book or will that ruin it?

I have a leather radio strap I want to deboss with my name. Will this process work? Do I need no wet the leather? Thanks! Good video

Can you used this on faux leather?

wait you said when you soak vegetan leather with water it turns into a plastic material? thats amazing.

How do you make the 3D stamp????

Do you do these embossing and debossing stamps for others!? Can I send my logo and you customised a stamp for me????

Very nice, where are you?

can you make a border around the font itself like the real leather stamps

Do you make stamps

Took the fun outta the hobby.

Can you make This for me?

Okay, I know this video is a couple of years old, and there's some good advice in the comments from leatherworkers, so let me collate it and add some of my own experience to it. Adding water to veg tan leather: You applied WAY too much, when you're wanting to make impressions on leather, this can be called stamping tooling embossing debossing etc you want to do what's called "casing" the leather. You're adding JUST enough water to be able to do this, too much and you can end up losing definition while it dries, and you add more when you want to mould the leather, but even then you can add too much to do this. Typically, you add some water evenly and let it return to it's natural colour, it'll feel cool to the touch. (This is also a good tell to see if the piece has dried enough) Just think, the more water you add, the longer your stamp needs to be in position for it to take properly. In the video you've actually only debossed, either the text/border or the negative space. Yes one looks like you have embossed, but it's not actually raised the surface. To do that you typically want a male and female mould, like you can see on paper logo embossers. This is tricky to do however, especially in the middle of a project. As for you infilling stamps. They don't need to be 100% infill, typically adding some extra walls top/bottom layers will do the trick, with a fairly high infill, you'll find if you have any errors whilst stamping it's because of how you applied force. Also depending on the size and or depth of you stamps you may want to put a small radius on edges to prevent tearing, this is more important the deeper embossing you want.

Nice instruction but a little too fast for the new fusion user

I'm not sure what do you mean "If you have a Prusa", as every printer can do an ironing pass.

whoa. i can not approve the way you made this cad job.

Why is it so out of focus?

US customary units 🤮